Cheeky Fish Pie with a Cheeky Cheese Sauce
Cheeky Fish Pie with a Cheeky Cheese Sauce
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| Serves | 4 |
| Prep time | 35 minutes |
| Cook time | 30 minutes |
| Total time | 1 hours, 5 minutes |
| Meal type | Main Dish |
| Portion Size 450g | ||||
| Nutrition Per Portion | ||||
| Calories | Sugar | Fat | Saturates | Salt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 452 | 5.6g | 11.3g | 4.8g | 2.2g |
Calories: 452
Time: 1 hr 5 mins
Ingredients
The Filling
- 250g Cod (Cut into bite sized chunks)
- 250g Smoked Haddock (Cut into bite sized chunks)
- 120g Salmon (Cut into bite sized chunks)
- 120g Tiger Prawns
- 1.5 tablespoons Small Capers
- 1 tablespoon Small Gherkins (Chopped)
The Sauce
- 250ml Semi Skimmed Milk
- 18g Cornflower
- 75g Cheeky Cow Half Fat Mature Cheese (Grated)
- 1 teaspoon English Mustard
- 1 1/2 tablespoon Fresh Parsley (Chopped)
- 1/2 teaspoon White Pepper
The Topping
- 600g Old Maris Piper Potatoes (Peeled and cut into even sized pieces)
- 5 Spring Onions (Finely sliced)
- 1 1/2 tablespoon Fresh Parsley (Choppped)
- 75ml Semi Skimmed Milk
- 50g Cheeky Cow Half Fat Mature Cheese (Grated)
- 1/2 teaspoon White Pepper
Directions
| Advanced Prep | |
| 1 | Wash and prepare the fish as required by the recipe or ask your fishmonger to do this for you |
| Sauce | |
| 2 | In a bowl combine the corn flour with 75ml or 3 tbsp of the milk. Set aside and bring the remaining milk to the simmer in a saucepan over a medium heat, stir in the corn flour mixture and continue to stir until the sauce thickens. |
| 3 | Add the grated cheese, mustard and pepper; continue stirring and cook for a further 2 minutes or until the cheese has melted. |
| Filling | |
| 4 | Place the cod, salmon, haddock, prawns, gherkins, capers, and chopped parsley in a bowl, mix well, season with pepper, stir in the cheese sauce. and carefully pour the fish mixture into a large oven proof dish. |
| Topping | |
| 5 | When the potatoes are cooked, drain and mash. Season with pepper; add the spring onions, herbs and milk. Stir well and check the seasoning. |
| 6 | Carefully spoon the mash over the fish sprinkle over the grated cheese and bake for 25-30 minutes until thoroughly cooked and golden brown in the pre-heated oven. |
Note
Equipment:
Cutting board, kitchen knife, measuring jug, cheese grater, whisk, spatula, mixing bowl, saucepan, large pan, large bowl and large oven proof dish.
Cheeky Service Hint:
This recipe makes a great coating sauce, perfect for use in pies, pouring over fish and binding ingredients together.
Cheeky Handy hint
For a slightly thinner pouring sauce for pasta dishes etc, simply reduce the amount of corn flour to 30g per 500ml milk.
Cheeky Healthy Hint:
Cheeky Cow Half Fat Mature Cheese has 50% less fat and saturated fat than mature cheddar, 36% less calories and 19% more protein and 13% more calcium.
Cod is low in Saturated Fat and is also a good source of Vitamin D, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12 and Potassium and a very good source of Protein, Phosphorus and Selenium.