Smoked haddock gratin

Smoked haddock gratin

By Barney Desmazery
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Prep: 15 mins Cook: 30 mins

Easy

Serves 4
A rich and creamy fish pie that's packed with hidden vegetables like spinach and tomato - a family bake

Nutrition and extra info

Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal523
  • fat38.7g
  • saturates23.1g
  • carbs8.3g
  • sugars4g
  • fibre4.2g
  • protein35.5g
  • salt3.5g
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Ingredients

  • 500g leaf spinach
    Spinach

    Spinach

    spin-atch

    Used in almost every cuisine across the world, spinach is an enormously popular green vegetable…

  • butter, for greasing
    Butter

    Butter

    butt-err

    Butter is made when lactic-acid producing bacteria are added to cream and churned to make an…

  • about 500g (2 fillets) smoked haddock, skinned and cut into 4 portions
  • 12 cherry tomatoes

For the topping

  • 200ml double cream or crème fraîche
  • juice ½ lemon
    Lemon

    Lemon

    le-mon

    Oval in shape, with a pronouced bulge on one end, lemons are one of the most versatile fruits…

  • 100g cheddar cheese, grated
    Cheddar

    Cheddar

    Ched-ah

    Once cheddar was 'Cheddar', a large, hard-pressed barrel of cheese made by a particular…

  • 2 spring onions, sliced
    Spring onions

    Spring onion

    sp-ring un-yun

    Also known as scallions or green onions, spring onions are in fact very young onions, harvested…

  • small grating nutmeg
    Nutmeg

    Nutmeg

    nut-meg

    One of the most useful of spices for both sweet and savoury…

  • handful dried breadcrumbs

Method

  1. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Place the spinach in a large colander in a sink and carefully and slowly pour over a kettleful of hot water to wilt it. Cool again under the cold tap then squeeze out as much liquid from the spinach as possible. Butter a medium gratin dish. Roughly chop the spinach and scatter evenly over the base of the dish. Season the spinach lightly with salt and pepper and lay the haddock fillets, skinned side down on top. Nestle the tomatoes among the haddock fillets.

  2. Mix all the ingredients for the topping, except the breadcrumbs, in a small bowl and season with lots of pepper and a little salt. Dollop and spread the mixture over the fish and spinach. Scatter everything with the breadcrumbs and bake for 30 mins until bubbling and golden. If you like things really grilled finish for a few mins under a hot grill. Serve straight from the dish.

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bikerbell
18th Jun, 2014
I halved the recipe for 2 of us but in retrospect I think keeping the topping ingredients the same as the recipe would have been better as not much sauce. Also I found it didn't bubble and become golden, but that might have been due to my old, slow oven! Still we both enjoyed it with green beans and new potatoes.
abii
1st Apr, 2014
Made this last night... I would never have thought of putting these ingredients together, but my husband and my picky 3 year old loved it. (I used smoked river cobbler and natural yoghurt, by the way.) A really simple, family meal that will become a regular, I'm sure!
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deejayellie
14th Mar, 2014
Fab recipe - loved it!
Pineapplesandwich
13th Mar, 2014
5.05
Really tasty recipe. I don't add nutmeg as I don't like it and use a little finely chopped onion instead of the spring onions (as I didn't have any when I made it the first time and it tasted fine). A regular meal that I serve with some potatoes that I cook in the oven too (after microwaving first to give them a head start). A favourite.
pammiejay
26th Feb, 2014
5.05
Quick, easy, tasty! My 2 toddlers loved it as much as the adults. Reheated in microwave next day really well which I wasn't expecting.
Cdub
2nd Feb, 2014
5.05
I doubled it for a larger group, had to put it in a large metal pan, and had no problems. Used half smoked black cod and half rockfish (can't get smoked haddock where I live, and smoked cod is expensive). Loved the cod, didn't love the rockfish so if being economical again, would look for a different white fish substitute. Was enough smokey flavour with the cod proportions I used and the meal had everyone singing. Super easy for such an impressive meal.
Caroline M
31st Jan, 2014
Perfect family meal, they all loved it
reichem
18th Jan, 2014
Very easy to prepare and really tasty - will definitely be doing this one again.
lisakirk1979
22nd Oct, 2013
We have this on a regular basis. So easy but super tasty.
butterflies122012
25th Sep, 2013
We really enjoyed this and will definitely make it again.

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