My Fishy Pie

600g ,white fish, such as Hake, cod or Pollock

200g smoked haddock

2 handfuls cooked peeled prawns
750mlmilk plus a little double cream

2 medium onions
pinch nutmeg

1 bay leaf
fennel seeds

bunch fresh parsley

1kg potatoes

bunch of chard
4 hard boiled eggs peeled and quartered
2 cloves chopped garlic
200g smoked Cheddar or a nice cheese
75g butter

75g plain flour

salt and pepper

1. Place the fillets of smoked haddock in milk with an onion,cloves bay leaf,fennel seeds, a couple of stalks of parsley .


2. heat the milk gently. once simmering, switch off.
cut the rest of the fish into 2cm cubes.

3.peel potatoes, cut them into even sizes and put them in a pan. Add just enough water to cover add salt and cook, once cooked drain add butter salt pepper.

4.separate the cooked smoked haddock from the milk place the milk back on the heat.

5.Add 75g of butter to a pan and heat once butter has melted add the flour stir for about 2 mins on a medium heat, slowly add all the milk until you have a white thick sauce,bung it in the food processer if lumpy wants to be thick but loose.

5.thinly slice the onion and remove the leafs of chard from stalks,chop the leafs rough and the stalks fine.heat a frying pan and cook the onions in a little butter and olive oil for 2 mins add the stalks cook until cooked no colour add the leafs switch off.

6.add the onion mixture, rest of the fish plus the smoked haddock broken into similar sizes,quartered eggs and prawns to the white sauce .place into any nice oval pyrex/china dish place mash ontop sprinkle with cheese place in a hot oven for 20mins or until top is gratinated and sides are bubbling sprinkle with freshly chopped parsley and dill.

bobs your marlin
eye eye fish pie!

muchacho