Although there are other fish pie recipes on this forum, I thought this one different enough to post. This fish pie is light (no white sauce), and although the recipe looks long, quite easy. Use whatever fish you like. We like salmon, smoked cod and prawns (total cost just under $20 at local fishmonger)
Serves 4-6
Ingredients• 150g good Cheddar cheese cubed
• 4 sprigs of fresh flat-leaf parsley
• 1 carrot cut into chunks
• 2 sticks of celery cut into chunks
• 1kg potatoes, peeled
• ½ a fresh red chili (I use a “grind” of dried chili flakes)
• 1 lemon
• 300g salmon fillets, skin off and bones removed
• 300g undyed smoked haddock fillets, skin off and bones removed
• 125g king prawns, raw, peeled
• olive oil
• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
• optional: a handful of spinach, chopped
• optional: a couple of ripe tomatoes, quartered.
Method1. Preheat the oven to 200°C.
2. Grate cheese 6 seconds/speed 8. Put in to a deep baking tray or earthenware dish.
3. Add the parsley leaves and stalks, carrot and celery to bowl and chop 5 seconds/speed 5. Add to baking tray. (Original recipe has vegies coarsely grated.)
4. Put 500 g water in the TMX bowl. Chop the potatoes into 2cm cubes and fill the rice basket. Put basket in bowl and cook the potatoes 20 minutes/Varoma temperature/speed 1.
5. While the potatoes are cooking, finely chop chili, zest the lemon and add both to baking tray.
6. Cut the fish into bite-size chunks and add to the baking tray with the prawns.
7. Squeeze the juice from the zested lemon (no seeds) over the fish, drizzle with a little olive oil and salt and pepper to taste
8.Add spinach or tomatoes to the baking tray if you are including them.
9. Mix everything well.
10. When the potatoes are cooked, take the basket of potatoes out of TMX and empty water from the bowl. Insert the butterfly. Place the cooked potatoes into the bowl and add 1-2 tablespoons olive oil and salt and pepper to taste. Mash 20 seconds/speed 3-4 or until smooth.
11. Spread mash evenly over the top of the fish mix
12. Bake about 40 minutes, or until potatoes are golden on top.
Serve immediately.
TipsWe like this with a simple crisp salad or steamed vegies. Jaime says to serve this with tomato ketchup, baked beans, steamed veg or a green salad. (Really not sure about the ketchup or baked beans)
If you want extra creaminess, add a few tablespoons of crème fraîche to the fish but IMHO it's not necessary.
We like this in a large dish so the pie is thin and there is lots of golden mashed potato on top.
Sorry the pics are a bit out of focus
Recipe from
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/fish-recipes/fish-pieMembers' commentsAllez - This was SO quick and and simple ..... and very yummy. A fish pie is normally such an effort - I will definitely do this again for a dinner party. I love Jamie Oliver's recipes - so it was great to see this converted for the thermomix ..... especially for a newbie like me.
wombat - This is a major standout!!! Everyone whinged and complained when they found out what iIwas making as fish pie is something I have never done before. We are a very fussy family with food and always love to tweak recipes but this one received almost a standing ovation and next time there will be no changing the recipe....it is that good. We didn't have anything else with it and it was perfect.
