Easy Fish Pie 🐟. 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. Serve fish pie with peas or other fresh greens. Cut the potatoes into small even-sized chunks and place in a saucepan with enough water to just cover. Easy fish pie, quick to prepare and on the table in under an hour. A tasty mid week dinner that all the family will enjoy.

An easy fish pie is a dish we should all have in our repertoire. I believe many people are afraid of cooking fish, their fear of over-cooking putting them off. A normal fish pie uses a basic white sauce, with cooked fish, topped with mashed potato. You can have Easy Fish Pie 🐟 using 9 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Easy Fish Pie 🐟

You need 8 of potatoes.
Prepare 400 ml of semi skimmed milk.
Prepare 1 tablespoon of sauce flour.
Prepare 100 g of butter.
Prepare 2 of cod fillets - frozen.
Prepare 2 of smoked haddock fillets - frozen.
It's 2 of salmon fillets - frozen.
Prepare 4 of eggs.
You need of Salt black pepper.

You can also add parsley, or cheese to the white sauce. This recipe, uses Creme Fraiche in place of the white sauce as a simple 'hack' to speed things up. Drain the potatoes and leave to steam-dry. Roughly chop the spinach and stir into the cheese sauce.

Easy Fish Pie 🐟 instructions

Here are the basic ingredients, bathed in early morning sunshine. I made this pie in the morning and then popped it in the oven about 50 minutes before my parents arrived..
Poach the frozen fish for about 10 minutes until cooked through. Boil the eggs until hard boiled. Don’t overcook the fish - it will be finished in the oven later..
Slice the potatoes into discs about 5mm thick. Parboil or steam the potatoes for 7-10 minutes. If parboiling add salt..
When all your fish, eggs and potatoes are cooking make a simple sauce. Melt the butter in a pan and add the milk. Stir the sauce flour with a small amount of water to make a paste and then add to the mix. Stir the mixture until it is thick and smooth. You could add grated cheese here if you want - but this will make the sauce very rich..
Break the fish into large chunks and spread into a bowl..
Add the eggs if you like. We use eggs in our family! You could vary the ingredients to your taste - cooked prawns or even vegetables such as peas or leeks can be really great..
Pour the sauce on top and then cover with plenty of fresh ground black pepper..
Layer the potatoes so the overlap similar to fish scales. Use smaller discs to plug gaps in this topping..
Brush with some melted butter and finish off with fresh ground black pepper and salt. This is where you can stop if you have made this pie in advance..
Place in the middle shelf of an oven at 180 degrees fan. Cook for 45 minutes and ensure the pie is cooked through and golden on top. Leave to stand for 5 minutes before serving..
We served this with brown bread, sautéed kale (7 minutes with butter) and frozen peas (boiled 5 minutes with salt and butter). Any green vegetable is going to taste great!.

Remove the pan from the heat, then stir in the prawns, fish pie mix and mustard. Now, fish pie is not necessarily the easiest or quickest of recipes, but I have tried to make mine as simple and straightforward as possible…I use a box of fish pie mix from the supermarket to save all that fiddly and messy boning, skinning and flaking. I poach the fish in milk and then I make a very simple white sauce and some cheesy mashed potato. A simple fish pie recipe that's quick and easy to prepare. Double the ingredients in this easy fish pie if you need to feed four, or quadruple.