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Fish pie

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Filling and nutritious, this traditional fish pie is perfect served with green beans or garden peas. A guaranteed people pleaser

Prep time: 15 mins
Cooking time: 1 hr 5 mins
Total time: 1 hr 20 mins
Serves: 6
Skill level: Bit of effort
Costs: Cheap as chips

Ingredients

Unsure what white fish to ask for? Pollack, cod and haddock all work well in this pie.

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1.8kg (4lb) cubed potatoes
75g (3oz) low fat spread
50g (2oz) plain flour
575ml (1pt) semi-skimmed milk
1 bay leaf
6 black peppercorns
½ small onion
450g (1lb) white fish fillet
225g (8oz) smoked haddock

Method

Put the potatoes in a pan and cover with water. Bring to the boil and simmer for 15 mins. Drain and mash with 25g (1oz) of the low fat spread.
Put the milk in a large pan with the bay leaf, peppercorns and onion. Slowly bring to the boil and remove from heat. Remove and discard bay leaf, peppercorns and onion.
Put 50g (2oz) low fat spread in a large pan and heat gently until melted. Add 50g (2oz) plain flour and cook gently for 1 to 2 mins, stirring constantly. Remove from the heat and gradually whisk in reserved milk. Return to the heat and bring to the boil, whisking constantly until thickened.
Put the fish, skinned and cut into large chunks, in the base of an oven-proof dish, pour over the sauce and spoon the mashed potato over the top. Bake in a preheated oven at 190°C (375ºF, gas mark 5) for 25 mins until potato is golden. Serve the fish pie immediately.

Wine match: This dish has great texture and a strong, smoked fish flavour which needs a broader style of wine like Gallo Family Vineyards Chardonnay. The oak in the wine makes it taste slightly smoky which will sit nicely your palate.

Food and wine matching by Sylvain Removille, wine ambassador for Gallo Family Vineyards.

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Nutritional information per portion

Calories 408(kcal)
Fat 8.0g
Saturates 2.5g
Sugars 7.0g
Salt 1.2g

This nutritional information is only a guide and is based on 2,000 calories per day. For more information on eating a healthy diet, please visit the Food Standards Agency website.

Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.

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jay Davidson, posted 4 weeks ago

excellent especially with added prawns and grated cheese on potatoes, Made it several times and keep being asked for it again!

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carl,ov,stabbo,notts, posted 7 months ago

Mines looking kinda nice mmmmmm carnt wait to try , wish id thought of the spinked cheese bit mmmmmmmm oh welll will have to try another with cheese and maybe the spinach mmmmmm happy eating all

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lorraine, posted 1 year ago

Wahay!! Managed to get my hubby to eat fish with this dish..lovely with grated cheese sprinkled on the top.

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Bob from notts, posted 1 year ago

Excellent recipie, as well as spinach try adding a handfull of cooked prawns with the fish yum!!

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alexander nott, posted 1 year ago

i just love to cook, to sit down with a cup of tea and read over your marvoulous recpies is my ideal day. these recipies give me inspiration to cook wonderrful meals and always make me strive to do my best. thanks for your constant fresh and healthy ideas much appreciated alexander

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Sandee, posted 1 year ago

Seems nice and easy. Wanted to try a nice simple, but satisfying dish. Looking forward to it.

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sharni, posted 1 year ago

thats a good recipe

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carolmckenzie, posted 2 years ago

can you freeze this

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winifred grace, posted 2 years ago

Just wanted to see if the fish pie was like the one I make . I always put some leaks or Sinach in with the fish.

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