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Old-fashioned fish pie
Old-fashioned fish pie
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Prep Time:
45 minutes
Cook Time:
40 minutes
Total Time:
85 minutes
Ingredients:
  • 4 cloves
  • 1 onion, halved
  • 750ml milk
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 450g blue-eye cod, skinned, pin-boned
  • 450g smoked haddock or cod
  • 3 hard-boiled eggs, roughly chopped
  • 350g small cooked prawns, peeled, tails removed, vein removed
  • 75g butter
  • 75g plain flour
  • 200ml thick cream
  • Pinch of grated nutmeg
  • 40.00 ml chopped dill
  • 40.00 ml chopped flat-leaf parsley
  • 4 sheets butterpuff pastry sheets
Instructions:
  • Impale cloves into onion halves and set in a saucepan with milk, bay leaf, and fish. Boil, then lower heat and simmer for approximately 8 minutes. Lift out fish with a spatula and let it cool slightly. Pour cooking liquid through a strainer into a pitcher, removing any solids. Break fish into big pieces, removing bones. Combine with eggs and prawns in a bowl, then season to taste.
  • In a saucepan, gently melt butter over low heat. Stir in flour and cook for 1-2 minutes. Pour in reserved liquor and continue stirring until mixture begins to thicken. Stir in cream and simmer for 5 minutes. Add nutmeg, herbs, and season to taste. Pour the sauce over the fish and let it cool.
  • - Preheat your oven to 180°C. - Divide the mixture evenly into four 500ml pie dishes. - Cut 1cm-wide strips from the edge of the pastry sheets. - Press the strips around the rims of the dishes, brushing with a little water to help adhere. - Place the pastry sheets on top of the dishes, lightly pressing to seal. Trim off any extra pastry. - Make 2 small slashes in the tops of the pies to allow steam to escape.
  • Brush the flaky pastry with a shiny egg wash and bake it for 25 minutes, or until the crust puffs up and turns a beautiful golden color.

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