Easy fish pie. Cut a small slit in each potato and place onto a baking sheet. Some like to sprinkle a fish pie with grated cheese but that's optional, as is the addition of hard-cooked eggs seen in some recipes. Serve fish pie with peas or other fresh greens.
You can have Easy fish pie using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Easy fish pie
- It’s 340 g of fish pie mix (we used Tesco which has cod, salmon and smoked haddock chunks).
- It’s 1 of large carrot.
- You need 1 cup of frozen peas.
- Prepare 1 of large leek.
- Prepare 5-6 of large white potatoes (could do more if you like more mash on top or half and half white and sweet potatoes).
- It’s 1 tablespoon of butter.
- Prepare 125 g of cheese (grated) - stronger cheddar is nice but I kept it milder for the kiddies.
- Prepare 4 tbsp of plain flour (we used cornflour as trying to keep gluten free - you'll probaby need a little less of this).
- You need 50 g of butter.
- It’s 500 ml of milk - semi or whole milk is best or try coconut or oat milk.
- You need 1 tsp of mustard (optional).
- You need of salt and pepper.
Spread the mashed potatoes over the top using a fork to rough the surface. A normal fish pie uses a basic white sauce, with cooked fish, topped with mashed potato. You can also add parsley, or cheese to the white sauce. This recipe, uses Creme Fraiche in place of the white sauce as a simple 'hack' to speed things up.
Easy fish pie step by step
Peel and chop the potatoes into small chunks. Place in a pan of boiling, slightly salted water and bring to the boil. Simmer for approx. 10 minute until they are cooked through. Drain thoroughly and add the butter and a dash of milk. Mash well and put aside..
Peel the carrot and grate into an medium overproof dish. Grate or thinkly slice the leeks and add to the dish..
Add the frozen peas and the fish and mix well..
Make the cheese sauce by melting 50g butter in a saucepan over a medium heat. Add the cornflour and stir thoroughly until it starts to form a paste (roux). Add a little of the milk and stir to incorporate the roux and the liquid. You will need to keep doing this until all the milk is added, making sure there are no lumps in the sauce. A whisk may help you do this..
Bring the sauce almost to a boil- it should thicken as it does so. Stir it at all times otherwise it will catch the bottom of the pan..
Take the pan off the heat once it is thickened and add the grated cheese. Stir until it is fully melted and mixed. Add salt and pepper to taste (a tsp of mustard is also nice to add here if you like.).
Mix the cheese sauce with the veg and fish in the dish.
Top with the mashed potato and fluff up with a fork.
Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180˚c for 35-40 minutes.
Serve with some lovely fresh green veg - broccoli and runner beans are the faves in our house!!.
Along with ready made mashed potato. To make this easy fish pie, all you do is cut the fish into bite-size pieces. You can throw in a few prawns too if you like but personally, I prefer it without. Then mix together some cream cheese, and crème fraîche with a little milk, some spring onions and some fresh herbs. I used dill but you could use parsley or chives instead.
