Directions
Ultimate lower fat fish pie
Details
- Prep Time:
15 min - Cook Time:
30 min - Ready Time:
45 min
Servings
Ingredients
- 16 oz chicken stock
- 4 oz dry white wine
- 2 garlic cloves , finely chopped
- 3 thyme sprigs
- 1 tarragon sprig, plus 1 tbsp chopped tarragon leaves
- 2 large carrots cut into thin juliennes
- 4 oz each of salmon, Pollock, shrimp and smoked mackerel (you can substitute any fish you like really)
- 1 leek , sliced
- 2 tbsp cornflour , mixed with 2 tbsp water
- 3 tbsp crème fraîche
- 1 heaped tsp Dijon mustard
- 1 heaped tbsp chopped flat-leaf or curly parsley
- Canola Oil
- Kosher salt
- Pepper
FOR THE TOPPING:
- 3 filo pastry sheets
- 1 tbsp melted butter
Directions
Start by sweating the garlic, leaks and carrots in some canola oil and the wine with some kosher salt and pepper.
Now cook until the wine starts to reduce by half and add the chicken stock bring that to a boil and add your herbs and let cook for 20 min.
Add the crème fresh and mustard let come back to a hard simmer and add the corn flour stirring until it starts to thicken.
Keep reducing until you have a nice think stew like sauce just as you would expect from a pot pie.
Now take you fish and cut them into bite size cubes and do the same for the shrimp trying to keep everything the same size.
For the smoked mackerel flake it off the skin and assemble everything in the bottom of your pie dish as shown in my photo.
Spoon in the sauce over the fish in the pie dish and shake so its evenly covering the fish.
I used three sheets of filo pastry sheet which I brushed with butter.
To finish fold the ends of the filo until you have about the same size as your pie dish and place it on top.
Finish with some more butter if its dry and sprinkle on some kosher salt and pepper.
Bake in a 375 degree oven until the top is golden brown and the filling should be bubbling.
Take out serve with some hot sauce and a good cold beer.
Benny
Step by step in photos here >>
About Benny
Passion for healthy amazing food. I am on crusade to get kids eat better and people in general learning how to cook for themselves. If I here that McDonald’s is cheaper than eating homemade I will prove anyone wrong.
