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Creamy Cheese Seafood Pie
My show-stopping seafood pie
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aisling larkin seafood pie
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sustainable fish
Prep Time: 20 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 45 minutes minutes
Servings: 6
Ingredients
Creamy Cheesy Mash
- 1 kg potatoes
- 50 g butter
- 50 ml milk
- 50 g Irish Cheddar cheese grated into mashed potatoes
- Salt and white pepper
- 50 g cheddar cheese grated, sprinkle on top
Fish
- 1 kg fish a mix of smoked and unsmoked are my favourites, I use pollock, cod, hake, fresh & smoked haddock, sea trout and some prawns
- 100 g frozen peas
- 400 ml milk to poach
- 1 fish stock pot
- Bay leaf optional
- Dill or Parsley optional
Creamy Sauce
- 50 g butter
- 50 g flour
- 2 tsp dijon mustard
- 300 ml milk used to poach fish
- 200 g sour cream
- 75 g cheddar cheese grated
- Salt and pepper
Instructions
Creamy Cheesy Mash
- Peel the potatoes. Put a large pan of water on the boil. Add a small sprinkle of sea salt. Gently put the potatoes in and boil until tender. Drain and allow to steam and dry out for a moment. Add in the butter and milk, seasoning and cheese and stir in. Set aside.
Poached Fish
- Preheat the oven to 180℃ fan, 200℃, gas 6
- Ask your fishmonger to pin bone and skin your fish. You can poach it in whole fillets or large bitesize chunks.
- Place the milk in a large saucepan. Gently sit in the fish, fish stock pot, bay leaf and dill if using. Turn on low to medium heat and allow to poach for 5-6 minutes.
- When cooked, remove the fish and set aside. Save the milk, this will be used for the creamy sauce.
Creamy Sauce
- Melt the butter in a pan, stir in the flour, and whisk this over low heat for 1 minute, until it goes dry and sandy.
- At this stage, gradually start to whisk in the milk that you used to poach the fish, little by little until it is fully combined and forms a thick sauce.
- Take it off the heat, stir in the mustard and sour cream, then sprinkle in the grated cheddar, season with salt and pepper.
- Set aside.
Assembly
- Place the flaked fish and layer it in the bottom of an oven-proof dish. Mix all the varieties around.
- Sprinkle in the frozen peas.
- Pour over the creamy sauce and combine. Spoon on the mashed potatoes. Spread and smooth it out with a spoon.
- Sprinkle on the grated cheddar on top.
- Bake in the oven for 35-40 minutes until golden, bubbly and hot all the way through.
- Serve with some in-season green vegetables, like leeks, wilted spinach/kale and some peas.
- Enjoy.