Seafood Pie (Red Salmon, Haddock and Smoked Pollock)

This pie was made with a selection of fish pieces found in Sainsbury's supermarket. The fish was first blanched in boiling water, and then poached for seven minutes under glass.

I made a white sauce with cornflour, milk and some Blue Stilton cheese (about 100g). Stirred until the cheese had entirely melted. Add the fish pieces to the sauce, along with a couple of dessert spoonfuls of drained garden peas, and remove from the heat.

Four large potatoes were boiled until soft, then mashed with a little butter and pepper. The oven was heated to 150deg C while the potatoes were cooking on the hob.

Add the fish sauce mix to an oven-proof baking dish, then spoon the mashed potato on top. Texture the surface of the mash with a fork, until it looks a little like a ploughed field.

Cook the pie in the middle of the oven for about 45 minutes. Check frequently that the potato topping is browning. The pie will be ready when the topping is a golden brown.

Cod, Haddock and Salmon Pie, with Sweet Potato

A simple fish pie made with potato, sweet potato, red onion, shelled peas, cornmeal, salmon, haddock, cod, Cheddar cheese, white pepper, salt, and turmeric.

The pack of fish pieces was bought from a supermarket, and was first steamed for fifteen minutes, while I stirfried the sliced red onion, and boiled the potato and sweet potato chunks until soft.

The sauce was made with four dessert spoonfuls of Greek style yoghurt (instead of the more usual milk), plus two heaped teaspoonfuls of cornmeal (instead of the more usual cornflour). Add water. Stir the ingredients together, and bring to the boil. Add a quarter teaspoonful of Dijon mustard, and a quarter teaspoonful of black pepper. Add two pinches of salt. Add a quarter teaspoonful of turmeric powder. Stir together. Finally, add about 80g of medium strength cheddar cheese, sliced into squares. Stir together until the cheese has dissolved into the sauce. Turn down the heat, and allow to simmer for ten minutes, stirring regularly.

The sauce was allowed to cool, and then half of it was added to the small casserole dish chosen for the pie. I added the fish pieces, the onion, and about 100g of shelled peas. I added a layer of grated cheese to the casserole dish.

When the potato and sweet potato had cooled after being drained, the pieces were mashed together in a glass bowl. The mash was added on top of the layer of grated cheese and grooved with a fork.

Cook in a preheated oven for fifty minutes at between 180-90 deg C. Serve with three dessert spoonfuls of the cheese sauce.

Fish Pie with Stilton Cheese Sauce

Modelled on a fish pie my mother sometimes makes. Though she generally dislikes cheese, so she wouldn't have made one like this :-). 

First I boiled eight medium sized potatoes in their skins for 30 minutes under glass (in salted water). I used three different kinds of fish in chunks - salmon, smoked Pollock, and Haddock. Enough to cover the base of a small roasting tray. The chunks were stir-fried in some sunflower oil at a medium heat under glass, 4-5 minutes each side, then were placed in the roasting tray. I made a sauce with some cornflour and water, and cut thin slices of about 150 grams of Blue Stilton cheese. Half of it went into the sauce, along with two handfuls of freshly podded peas.  

The boiled potatoes were drained, and placed in a large glass bowl, I mashed the potatoes, first with a masher, and once there was a mostly even mash, I used a fork. I also used the fork to introduce the rest of the Stilton cheese into the potato, along with a knob of butter. 

Once the cheese sauce was sufficiently thickened, I poured it over the cooked fish pieces in the roasting tray. Then I spooned the mashed potato on top. The surface of the potato was textured with a fork, in order to produce crispy ridges in the pie crust. 

The pie tray was placed in an oven preheated to 180 deg C for an hour, until the surface of the pie was golden brown. Voila! A delicious and nutritious fish pie, which can be adapted to whatever fish you have available. 

Fish Pie with Stilton Cheese Sauce