Everyone has favourite fish pie recipes. This one is mine
4 generous portions
Ingredients
- 900g potatoes, peeled and diced
- 25g butter
- 4 spring onions, roughly chopped (or 1 regular onion finely chopped)
- 1 tbsp sunflower oil
- 2 garlic cloves finely chopped
- 1 large carrot, cut into matchsticks
- 2 celery stick, finely chopped
- 300g smoked coley or haddock, skinned & bones and cut into chunks
- 300g firm white fish (hake, cod, haddock) skinned & bones and cut into chunks
- 75g butter
- 75g plain flour
- 500ml warm milk
- 100g cheddar cheese, grated
- 3 anchovy fillets
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200C
- Boil or steam the potatoes until tender, drain and mash with 25g butter and stir through the spring onions
- Heat the sunflower oil in a frying pan and gently sauté the garlic, carrots and celery until tender. Remove to a high-sided baking dish with the fish chunks
- Melt the 75g of butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Add the anchovies and break them up then stir in the flour and whisk in the warm milk until it boils and becomes thick. Stir in three quarters of the cheese and season with salt and pepper
- Pour the sauce over the fish and vegetables. Gently spread the mashed potatoes over the top and sprinkle over the remaining cheese.
- Bake in the oven at 200C for 35 minutes
