Irish fish pie recipe - cooking fish - recipe for Fish Pie
Irish Fish Pie
Ingredients
1½ lb firm white fish fillets
1 large leek, chopped
2 strips lemon rind
¼ tspn ground nutmeg
8 peppercorns
2 bay leaves
6 parsley stalks
2½ cups milk
1 oz butter
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 extra leek, chopped
½ cup spring onions, chopped
2 tbsp plain flour
extra milk or cream
2 lb potatoes, cooked and mashed
ground pepper
1 tspn paprika (optional)
Preparation & Cooking Instructions
Preheat oven to 400°F
Place fish fillets in a pan, add leek, lemon rind, nutmeg, peppercorns,
bay leaves and parsley stalks. Pour in milk and simmer uncovered over a low
heat for about 15 minutes or until fish is cooked.
Carefully remove fish fillets, strain off the liquid and reserve for sauce.
Melt butter in a pan, add garlic, leeks and spring onions. Cook over a low
heat for 7 minutes or until leeks soften. Remove half the mixture and reserve.
To make the sauce : Sprinkle flour over remaining mixture in pan and blend
until smooth. Measure the reserved poaching milk and make up to 1½
cups with extra milk or cream. Add to blended flour in pan, stir until mixture
comes to the boil and thickens. Cook for 1 minute longer.
Cut fish into chunky pieces and fold gently through the sauce. Add reserved
leek and spring onion mixture to mashed potatoes. Season both sauce and potato
mixture with pepper.
Pour fish sauce into greased shallow casserole dish and top with mashed
potatoes, using a fork to make a pattern. Sprinkle with paprika.
Bake at 400°F for 20 minutes or until topping is brown.