Easiest Way to Make Homemade Fancy Fish Pie

Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, fancy fish pie. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Fancy Fish Pie is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Fancy Fish Pie is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook fancy fish pie using 26 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Fancy Fish Pie:

1. Make ready For poaching the fish
2. Prepare 500 ml full fat milk
3. Get 1 small onion, quartered
4. Get 4 cloves
5. Prepare 2 Bay Leaves
6. Take For the Filling
7. Take 300 g smoked seconds fillets/smoked haddock
8. Get 300 g cod fillet, skinned and boned
9. Make ready 200 g Queen scallops
10. Make ready 150 g King Prawns
11. Make ready Small bunch parsley, chopped
12. Get For the Nutmeg Mash
13. Make ready 1.5 kg floury potatoes (such as maris pipers), peeled and cut into large chunks
14. Get salt and black pepper
15. Make ready 50 ml Whole Milk
16. Get 50 g unsalted butter
17. Prepare Freshly grated nutmeg
18. Take 100 g grated mature cheddar
19. Take For the Sauce
20. Get 50 g unsalted butter
21. Prepare 50 g plain flour
22. Prepare 500 ml reserved poaching milk PLUS an extra 100ml
23. Get 1 tbsp Lemon Juice
24. Get 2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
25. Get Freshly grated nutmeg
26. Prepare salt and black pepper

Instructions to make Fancy Fish Pie:

1. First, poach the fish: put the fish into a frying pan and pour over the 500ml milk. Stud each onion quarter with a clove, then add to the milk with the bay leaves. Bring the milk just to the boil - this will be just a few bubbles appearing - and reduce the heat to simmer for 8 minutes.
2. Flake the fish onto a plate and strain the milk into a jug to cool, as you will use this later for the sauce. Flake the fish into large pieces into a large shallow oven-proof baking dish. Place the raw prawns and scallops evenly over the fish. Scatter over the chopped parsley.
3. Next, get the potatoes going for the mash by placing them into a large saucepan of cold, salted water. Bring to the boil and cook for around 15 - 20 minutes, or until tender.
4. Meanwhile, make the sauce. Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over a low heat. Once melted, stir in the flour using a hand whisk and cook for around 10 minutes, stirring continuously until the flour is ‘cooked out’. The consistency will change to a thinner ‘sauce’ and the colour should go slightly caramel. This is when you know it is ready to add the milk.
5. Take off the heat and gradually add the milk, a big splash at a time, whisking well each time to create a smooth sauce. As the milk will have been warm when adding, the sauce should thicken fairly quickly. Return to the heat and continue cooking if it needs to thicken a little more. Finish the sauce by adding the nutmeg, parsley, lemon juice and some salt and pepper. Pour this evenly over the fish. Preheat the oven to 190C fan.
6. Drain the potatoes well, giving them a bash, tip them back into the pan and mash well. Add the butter and mix well until melted using a fork now in a whisky motion to begin fluffing the mash. Add the milk, a splash at a time until you have a creamy, smooth consistency. You may not need to use all of the milk. Season with salt and pepper to taste and add the nutmeg to taste.
7. Top the pie now with the mash, starting at the edges and working your way in. Smooth it down and then mark with a fork. Top with the grated mature cheddar.
8. Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until golden-brown on top and bubbling all the way through. If your pie was assembled cold, it may take slightly longer in the oven. Serve with buttered peas tossed in parsley.

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