Easy Fish Pie with Crunchy Cheese Topping
The easiest Fish Pie recipe with delicious cheesy mash topping. A really simple sauce, no pre-cooking the fish, just assemble for the ultimate comfort food.
Ingredients
- 520 g Fresh fish pie mix (cod, salmon and smoked haddock) (2 x 260g Packs) See Note 1.
- 175 g Cooked prawns
For the topping:
- 1.25 kg Potatoes Peeled and cut into chunks.
- 3 tbsp Butter
- Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 100 g Cheddar cheese Grated.
- 50 g Panko breadcrumbs
For the sauce:
- 400 ml Milk Full fat or semi-skim.
- 30 g Cornflour Cornstarch if you're in USA.
- 10 g Fresh chives Finely chopped
- Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 180C.
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Put your potatoes, with a sprinkle of salt, in a pan of boiling water and cook for 10 minutes or until a knife slides in easily.
To make the sauce:
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While the potatoes are cooking, put the cornflour into a mug and mix with a small amount of the measured milk until it forms a paste.
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Put the remaining milk into a sauce pan over a medium heat. Pour in the cornflour 'slurry' and whisk the sauce until it thickens and is smooth.
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Add the chives and plenty of salt and pepper.
To make the pie:
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Put the raw fish pie mix and prawns into the bottom of a large dish. Pour over the sauce.
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Mash the cooked and drained potatoes in the saucepan and add the butter and salt and peppers. Spread over the top of the dish and sauce.
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Sprinkle over the cheese and breadcrumbs.
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Bake in the oven for 30 minutes until the top is crispy and golden and the fish is cooked through.
Recipe Notes
Note 1 - Fish Pie Mix
In the UK these packs are sold in supermarket and are usually a mix of cubes of cod, salmon and some smoked haddock.
The same weight of similar fish in cubes is fine. Try to include some smoked fish for flavour.