Spring fish pie
Cooking time
Prep: 5 mins Cook: 35 minsSkill level
EasyServings
Serves 2A special after-work supper treat - easily doubled if you've got friends over
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Easily doubled
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 529
- protein
- 44g
- carbs
- 41g
- fat
- 22g
- saturates
- 7.7g
- fibre
- 4.9g
- sugar
- 6.5g
- salt
- 1g
Ingredients
- 250g bag washed leaf spinach
- 450g small new potatoes
- 2 eggs
- 300g skinless, boneless white fish fillet, cut into large chunks
- 100g half-fat crème fraîche
- juice ½ lemon
- 1 tbsp olive oil
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Method
- Heat oven to 220C/fan 200C /gas 7. Tip the spinach into a colander sitting in the sink and tip the potatoes into a saucepan. Bring a kettle full of water to the boil and pour enough over the potatoes to cover and slowly pour the rest over the spinach to wilt it. Bring the potatoes to the boil and cook for 8-10 mins until tender, then drain and roughly mash.
- Leave the spinach to cool, then squeeze out excess water with your hands. Scatter the spinach over the bottom of 2 individual or 1 small ovenproof dish leaving two gaps for the eggs. Crack the eggs into the gaps, then season with salt and pepper. Distribute the fish over the spinach and eggs. Spread over the crème fraîche and drizzle with the lemon juice. Loosely spoon over the potatoes, drizzle over the olive oil, then bake for 20-25 mins until the top is crispy and golden and the sauce is bubbling at the sides. Leave to stand for a few mins, then serve straight from the dish.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, April 2006
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
I love fish pie. However I have never made my own...until tonight. My wife wasn't keen on the idea but who cleaned her plate first... Very simple to make, I managed to pick up a fish pie mixed pack of fresh fish from morrisons which had salmon, haddock and smoked haddock. Lots of flavours. Creamy from the creme fraiche and lumpy mash was great to top it off. Recipe worked really well, might add some grated cheese to the top once out of the oven so it melts into the mash. Loved it, and will make again.
I made it twice, on the first day I made it as per recipe and it was a bit bland. I already upgraded this recipe by using the finest portuguese solted cod but it wasn't just right. the very next day I made it again. I upgraded mashed potatoes by adding chopped onions and garlic goldenned for 2min on the sprinkle of the olive oil. Only then I was 100% satisfied with a dish! I will make it again :)
Enjoyed this one and easy to make. I used half the amount of spinach and threw in a leek which I steamed over the new potatoes. I also used salmon instead of white fish as that was what I happened to have in the fridge. I possibly left it in the oven a little too long but it was still good, just would have benefitted from being a little more creamy. Will try again!
I love a traditional fish pie, and although this is quite different it is still delicious, and all the better because it takes hardly any time to make (as apposed to poaching fish and making sauces). I did add some king prawns and also a sprinkle of grated cheese over the potatoes. My children liked it too, so I will definitley be making this again and will try using salmon or a mixture of fish.
