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Jamie Oivers fantastic fish pie

Jamie Oliver's famous fantastic fish pie recipe.

Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
15 mins
Servings: 5
Cuisine: British

Ingredients

  • 5 large potatoes peeled and diced about 3 cm
  • salt and pepper
  • 2 free-range eggs leave out if you don't like them
  • 2 handfuls spinach I used 1 x 200gms packet of baby spinach
  • 1 onion finely chopped
  • 1 carrot chopped/diced small - or grated
  • 1 - 2 celery stalks finely diced
  • extra virgin olive oil for frying
  • 250 mil single cream
  • 1 cup grated Mature Cheddar cheese or Parmesan or half and a half
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 2 tsp Dijon mustard or English mustard
  • 1 large handful of flat-leafed parsley finely chopped
  • 500 grams 650gms smoked haddock cut into biggish chunks. You could use any firm white fish - cod hake, kingklip or salmon. Or a mix of salmon and whitefish.
  • 2 tbsp or as much butter as you dare to add to your mash 
  • 1/4 tsp nutmeg optional - a light grating in the mash
  • salt and pepper I like white pepper in this dish

Instructions

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  1. Preheat oven to 220 degrees C / 425F.
  2. Chop all the things, juice the lemon and get everything ready to cook.
  3. Boil the potatoes in salted water for a couple of minutes.
  4. Add the 2 eggs and set a timer for 8 minutes. Remove when ready and plunge into cold water to cool. Peel and cut into quarters setting aside.
  5. In a separate pan fry, the onion, carrot, and celery for about 5 minutes in the olive oil then add the cream and bring to a boil. add the spinach leaves and dijon and stir to wilt. 
  6. Place the fish into an appropriately sized oven dish and add the chopped parsley, lemon juice, grated cheese, and mustard. Pour over the vegetable and cream and mix. Arrange the quartered eggs evenly across the mix pressing them in.
  7. When the potatoes are cooked, drain them in the colander and mash them with lashings of butter, and season with salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg. Spread over the top of the fish mixture.
  8. You could drizzle a bit more oil or melted butter over the top to get a browner finish or sprinkle over  more cheese if you really wanted to be decadent and get some more crunch
  9. Bake for about 25 - 30 mins - until golden.
  10. Serve with heated baked beans in tomato sauce and blanched green beans (or other green vegetables/salad of your choice)

Notes

  • This pie is best made just before serving. 
  • If you want to freeze the pie, remove the eggs before doing so or omit them from the recipe.