Has anyone got a nice recipe for fish pie?!
Has anyone got a nice recipe for fish pie?
I have got salmon and king prawns in the freezer so want to use these.
Answers: you mean pie?? how bout making it into a spring roll??? i've tried it many times. cook both prawns and the salmon in small amount of water. debone / unshelled. chopped finely mix with chopped onions, garlic, spring onions or onion leeks, carrots, celery, breadcrumbs and egg. you can add any other vegetable you want as extender like potatoes, cabbage, turnips, tofu etc. you may want to mix a little vermiccile (presoaked in water and chopped). add salt, pepper and sugar to taste. wrap in spring roll wrapper and fry until golden brown. serve hot with either catsup, hot sauce, sweet and sour sauce or thousand island dressing. hope you'll like it! Well, you can do what I'd have to do and put it into a search engine. Also, check www.foodnetwork.com, www.cooking.com, etc. I can help you with 2 recipe's
RECIPE 1
Luxury fish pie
Ingredients
225g/8oz haddock fillet, skinned and boned
450g/1lb salmon tail piece, skinned and boned
lemon juice
4 hard-boiled eggs, shelled and quartered
900g/2lb baking potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
55g/2oz butter
150ml/? pint cream
salt and white pepper
grated nutmeg
Parsley sauce:
85g/3oz butter
30g/1oz flour
570ml/1 pint milk
150ml/? pint cream
large bunch of parsley, leaves snipped and finely chopped
Method
1. Cook the potatoes in boiling salted water until soft.
2. Drain well and mash. Add the cream and butter, seasoning and nutmeg. Mix really well until absolutely smooth and creamy. Taste, adjust seasoning and set to one side.
3. Prepare the sauce by heating the butter over a very low heat then stir in the parsley. Cook for about ten minutes.
4. Add the flour and cook this mixture, without browning, for about 3 minutes, stirring a few times.
5. In another pan, bring the milk and cream to the boil. Pour this into the "roux" (the butter and flour mixture) a little at a time, whisking or beating after each addition. Bring the sauce to the boil and then cook over a low heat for 5-6 minutes.
6. While the sauce is cooking, pre-heat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6 and generously butter a deep ovenproof dish.
7. Cut the raw fish into pieces and lay in the dish, season lightly and add a little lemon juice.
8. Pour the hot sauce over the top, place the boiled eggs evenly over the sauce and spoon over the potatoes.
9. Bake for 35-40 minutes by which time the top should be crisp and brown and the fish perfectly cooked in its sauce. Serve at once.
RECIPE 2
Smoked haddock fish pie
Ingredients
4x110g/4oz smoked haddock portions
125g/4?oz peeled prawns, cooked
55g/2oz butter
1 leek, sliced
30g/1oz flour
300ml/? pint milk
salt and freshly ground black pepper
3 large potatoes, peeled, par-boiled and sliced
Method
1. Preheat oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
2. Melt half the butter in a large saucepan and cook the leeks for 2-3 minutes until soft.
3. Stir in the flour and cook for 1-2 minutes.
4. Remove from the heat; gradually stir in the milk. Return to the heat and cook stirring until the sauce has thickened. Simmer gently for 5 minutes.
5. Stir in the prawns and season with salt and pepper.
6. Place half the sauce in a pie dish; add the fish and spoon over the remaining sauce.
7. Top with the sliced potatoes and dot with the remaining butter. Season with some more pepper.
8. Place the dish on a baking sheet and bake for 35-40 minutes until the potatoes are golden.