Easter Recipes > Easter Fish Pie
medium salmon fillet
6 scallops
1 pint organic milk
1 sliced organic onion
1 bay leaf
4 black peppercorns
1/4 pint white wine
6 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 heaped tablespoon plain flour
2 medium eggs, hardboiled
2 tablespoons freshly chopped parsley
8 medium potatoes (enough to serve as a topping)
4 tablespoons milk
(see measure conversions for more information)
- Cook for about 10 minutes until the fish flakes easily.
- Strain the fish reserving the liquid.
- Cook the salmon for 10 minutes in the wine adding the scallops after 9 minutes of cooking.
- Strain the salmon and scallops, again reserving the liquid.
- Flake and remove the skin and bones.
- Melt the butter in a pan and work in the flour.
- Gradually add the reserved fish liquid and bring to the boil, stirring all the time.
- This should make a smooth sauce.
- Cook for about 2 minutes.
- Stir in all the fish and simmer for 2 minutes.
- Remove from the heat and stir in the chopped hard-boiled eggs and parsley.
- Season to taste and turn into a greased ovenproof dish.
- Boil and mash the potatoes with butter and milk making them very smooth.
- When cooled, spread or pipe the potatoes over the fish mixture and cook for about half an hour at 190 degrees centigrade (see temperature conversions).
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How to make Easter fish pie:
Fish would have been traditionally eaten on Good Friday because Good Friday was a fast day (i.e. when the Church decreed no meat could be eaten - fish was an exception to this rule).
Ingredients
1 1/2 lbs mixed white fish (cod, plaice, haddock)medium salmon fillet
6 scallops
1 pint organic milk
1 sliced organic onion
1 bay leaf
4 black peppercorns
1/4 pint white wine
6 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 heaped tablespoon plain flour
2 medium eggs, hardboiled
2 tablespoons freshly chopped parsley
8 medium potatoes (enough to serve as a topping)
4 tablespoons milk
(see measure conversions for more information)
Method
- Poach the white fish gently in the milk with the onion, bay leaf and peppercorns.- Cook for about 10 minutes until the fish flakes easily.
- Strain the fish reserving the liquid.
- Cook the salmon for 10 minutes in the wine adding the scallops after 9 minutes of cooking.
- Strain the salmon and scallops, again reserving the liquid.
- Flake and remove the skin and bones.
- Melt the butter in a pan and work in the flour.
- Gradually add the reserved fish liquid and bring to the boil, stirring all the time.
- This should make a smooth sauce.
- Cook for about 2 minutes.
- Stir in all the fish and simmer for 2 minutes.
- Remove from the heat and stir in the chopped hard-boiled eggs and parsley.
- Season to taste and turn into a greased ovenproof dish.
- Boil and mash the potatoes with butter and milk making them very smooth.
- When cooled, spread or pipe the potatoes over the fish mixture and cook for about half an hour at 190 degrees centigrade (see temperature conversions).
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