Luxury Fish Pie

Luxury Fish Pie

Recipe by Paul Phillips

Smoked haddock, salmon and cod with a delicious sauce and cheesy mash...my family love this old-school classic and I promise yours will too.

Prep time: 30 mins

Cook time: 60 mins

Total time: 90 mins

Yield: Serves 8

Ingredients

  • FOR THE FILLING:
  • 600ml full fat milk
  • 150ml double cream
  • 300g undyed smoked haddock
  • 60g unsalted butter
  • 2 banana shallots, finely chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
  • 60g plain flour
  • 1 1/2 lemons, juice and zest (finely chopped)
  • 1 tbsp dijon mustard
  • 1.5 tsp worcestershire sauce
  • 1 tsp curry powder
  • 3 tbsp curly leaf parsley, finely chopped
  • 200g cod (or pollock) and 300g salmon skinned and cut into into 1 inch cubes
  • 200g frozen peas
  • 3 hard boiled eggs, roughly chopped
  • FOR THE TOPPING:
  • 1 kg maris piper potatoes, peeled
  • 75g unsalted butter
  • 50ml milk, warmed
  • 2 tsp wholegrain mustard
  • 100g parmesan, grated

Cooking Directions

  1. Add the milk and cream to a pan. Bring to a simmer then add the haddock and poach for 6mins. Transfer the fish to a plate and gently flake. Sieve the poaching liquid and keep to one side.
  2. Melt the butter and fry the shallots and garlic until soft. Add the flour and cook for a few seconds before adding the reserved poaching liquor. Simmer for 10 minutes until thickened.
  3. Stir in the remaining ingredients, except the peas and eggs, and simmer for 5 minutes until the cod and salmon are startng to turn opaque. Take off the heat, stir through the frozen peas, chopped eggs and reserved fish. Season generously. Transfer to a large oven proof dish and leave to cool slightly (this will make it easier to sit the potato topping on top).
  4. Preheat oven to 180C.
  5. Boil the potatoes until soft, then mash and beat in the remaining ingredients. Cover the pie and bake for 30 minutes. Serve immediately.