Fish Pie. Take fish pie to the next level Give the humble fish pie a flavour-boosting makeover with Tommy Banks' version, made with king prawns, salmon and haddock and topped with. To the uninitiated, fish pie has an uninviting name and reputation But this is fish that is gently poached, then swathed in a white sauce and topped with buttery mashed potatoes and finished to a heat-bronzed finish in the oven It is a dish good for children but can be made into unapologetic dinner-party fare by poaching the fish in a little white wine, making the white sauce with light cream. "This delicious fish pie is a great excuse to pack in the veg, so use whatever you have to hand - even frozen peas! Instead of plain old mash, I've created a crispy root veg topping to add colour and texture - it's a bit like a rosti, only baked instead of fried. A Fish Pie fit for a king! Flakes of fish smothered in a creamy white sauce, topped with mashed potato then baked until golden brown, a wonderful centrepiece for Easter you can make with fresh, smoked and even canned fish.

Fish expert Mitch Tonks' fish pie recipe has bags of flavour from the smoked haddock, prawns and cod. Combining fish, leeks, milk, butter, and potatoes, a fish pie is a one-pot supper dish. Some like to sprinkle a fish pie with grated cheese but that's optional, as is the addition of hard-cooked eggs seen in some recipes. You can cook Fish Pie using 15 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Fish Pie

You need 8 of Large Potatoes.
It's 1 small of onion, chopped.
Prepare 1 head of Broccoli.
Prepare 1 head of Cauliflower.
It's 2 fillets of Salmon.
It's 2 fillets of Fresh Cod.
It's 2 fillets of Smoked Haddock.
You need 600 ml of Milk.
You need 2 tbsp of Plain Flour.
You need of Lagos Chilli Powder (Optional).
You need 50 grams of Salted Butter.
Prepare 150 grams of Grated Cheese.
Prepare 1 pinch of Salt.
You need 1 pinch of White Pepper.
It's 5 oz of water.

Serve fish pie with peas or other fresh greens. This Creamy Fish Pie recipe was the one I cooked up on stage in a live-cookoff at the Big Feastival a few years ago (I added some crumbled up Piper's cheese and onion crisps on top for a little twist on that one). As part of the cook-off, we had to make a giant version so the audience could taste-test the recipe and vote for their favourite. And that audience was scarily huge (see below)!

Fish Pie instructions

Add the broccoli and cauliflower to lightly salted water and boil until slightly cooked, remove vegetables and set aside..
Preheat oven to 200 C / Fan 180 C / Gas mark 5. Place the chopped fish in an oven-proof dish and cover with the milk. Add broccoli, cauliflower, a pinch of white pepper, chilli powder and salt. Bake in the oven uncovered for 15 minutes or until the fish is almost cooked through.
Peel and chop the potatoes, and boil with a pinch of salt until soft.
When the fish is done, drain the milk into a jug and put aside. Stir & flake the fish with a fork and leave in the dish..
Once potatoes are done, drain, then add 30g of the butter and a splash of the reserved milk and mash..
In another saucepan melt the remaining 20g of butter on a medium heat and slowly add the flour stirring constantly until you get a smooth paste..
Add the remaining milk a little bit at a time, stirring constantly, until you get a sauce-like consistency. Cook for 5 minutes stirring constantly..
Add the sauce to the flaked fish and mix well. Top with the mashed potato and spread evenly. Sprinkle the grated cheese evenly over the potato topping.
Place back in the oven for 30-40 minutes, or until the cheese is bubbling and slightly golden brown..
Served with any remaining vegetables, or freshly steamed sweetcorn.

Scatter with the grated cheese and put the pie immediately in the oven. Cut up the potatoes, and boil in lightly salted water until tender; drain, add the butter, sour cream and milk, mash until smooth, seasoning with salt and pepper. One of the givens of most fish pies is the mashed potato crust, making it the fishy equivalent of a cottage pie, or shepherd's pie. It can be thick, thin, swirled, piped, or flattened, but it's always lightly crisped in the hot oven, and utterly delicious. Fish pie, also known as fisherman's pie, is a traditional British dish.