A Serious Fish Pie
A Serious Fish Pie

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, a serious fish pie. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Fish pie is always a winner, but the chefs of Fortnum & Mason have a few extra touches which elevate this recipe still further. 'Now this is a serious fish pie, with smoked haddock, salmon and cod at its heart,' the chefs of Fortnum & Mason write in their cookbook, from which this recipe is taken — and. Fish pie might seem like an essentially British recipe, but there's no reason why it can't be made elsewhere, including in your kitchen. Fish pie, also known as fisherman's pie, is a traditional British dish.

A Serious Fish Pie is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. A Serious Fish Pie is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook a serious fish pie using 14 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make A Serious Fish Pie:
  1. Make ready 1 Salmon fillet
  2. Make ready 1/2 Smoked cod or haddock fillet
  3. Get 2 Shallots (or 1/3 small onion)
  4. Get 1 clove garlic
  5. Make ready 1 pinch dill
  6. Take 1 pinch chives
  7. Get 1 handful grated cheddar cheese
  8. Prepare 1 teaspoon plain flour
  9. Make ready 1/4 cup milk
  10. Prepare 1 knob butter
  11. Take 1/3 lemon, juice and zest
  12. Make ready 1 pinch fresh ground black pepper
  13. Take 1 sheet shortcrust pastry
  14. Prepare 1/4 egg (beaten)

Fish pie is a brilliantly versatile dish which allows you to mix and match your favourite fish and seafood. The most common ingredients are a firm white The sauce for a fish pie is traditionally roux-based where an equal amount of flour and butter is cooked until toasty then milk is whisked in to give a thick. There is no doubt that fish pie is a much-loved dish and a great comfort food for many. Giving a portion of fish pie to your children when they are young is an excellent way of introducing them to eating fish, especially as the fish is hidden in a delicious creamy sauce and sits under either a browned pastry or.

Steps to make A Serious Fish Pie:
  1. Fry the Shallots and garlic in a little butter.
  2. Cut the fish into bite size chunks. Microwave in a covered dish until lightly cooked.
  3. In a separate pan, use the butter, flour and milk to make a rue.
  4. To the rue add the cheese, pepper, herbs, chives, lemon juice and zest, fish and shallots/garlic. Mix well but gently - try and keep the fish chunks from breaking up.
  5. Butter the inside of the pie dish.
  6. Take the pastry sheet and cut around the top of the pie dish to make the pie lid. Take a small serving plate and cut around this to make a larger pastry circle that will form the base of the pie.
  7. Push the pastry base into the pie dish. Remove excess pastry from around the edge of the dish, making sure you leave pastry on the lip of the dish.
  8. Add the filling. Then brush some beaten egg around the edge of the base where the lid will sit.
  9. Add the lid. Push down with your thumb all along the edge, sealing the lid against the base.
  10. Brush egg over the top of the pie. Then take a sharp knife and make a couple of small holes in the lid to allow steam/pressure to escape.
  11. Bake in a medium-heat oven for 30-35 minutes, or until the pie is a deep golden brown.
  12. Serve with a lemon wedge and seasonal vegetables of your choice.

Therefore, fish pie must never be served in individual dishes (eg cast iron oven-to-table pots), as pubs tend to. Yes, it may look appealing - if mainly to the chef who, in such over-elaboration, is seeking to justify his title - but it entirely misunderstands what this meal is all about. Most fish pie recipes require pre-cooked fish, but a nicer way is to bake it from raw and invest in a bottle of Noilly Prat - Read the full recipe here. Meanwhile, cut the salmon and cod into bite-sized chunks and scatter in the pie dish with the scallops and prawns. A 'serious fish pie recipe' with some fabulous extra surprises for extra texture and taste - Country Life.

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