Stargazy Pie

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  • Prep Time

    15 mins

  • Cook Time

    1 hr 15 mins

  • Total Time

    1 hr 35 mins

  • Servings

    4 people

  • Calories

    889 kcal

  • Course

    Main Course

  • Cuisine

    British

Stargazy Pie

A delicious and easy fish pie topped with crisp, shortcrust pastry and the addition of little sardines heads poking out! Recipe originally heralds from Mousehole in Cornwall.

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Ingredients

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  • 1 tbsp salted butter
  • 1 onion
  • 200 g smoked bacon lardons
  • 3 tbsp plain flour
  • 300 ml fish stock
  • 150 ml double cream
  • 300 g Fish pie mix haddock, white fish, salmon...
  • 1 tsp fresh flat leaf parsley chopped
  • 1 tsp fresh chives chopped
  • 3 boiled eggs
  • 4 whole sardines
  • 320 g ready-rolled shortcrust pastry
  • 1 egg
  • 50 ml milk semi or whole is fine

Instructions

  1. Melt a chunk of butter in a saucepan and fry off your onions and bacon lardons until crisp and softened. 
  2. Add the flour to make roux, stirring for a minute. Pour in your fish stock and bring to a boil. You may notice the sauce starting to thicken already. Stir for a few minutes more until properly thickened and then pour in your cream. Do the same again until you have a thick sauce. 
  3. Stir in the chopped fish, the parsley and chives. Fold in the chopped boiled eggs. I only halves mine but you can do quarters, whatever suits you.
  4. Roll out your pastry until 3mm thick and wider than your pie dish. 
  5. Pour the fish pie sauce into your dish. Place the sardines standing up in the pie dish. If they are too long, like mine were, you can also just lean them on the sides. I did one in each corner of the dish. 
  6. Cut four slits in your pastry in approximately the areas where your sardines are. Pick up your pastry carefully and lay it over your dish, pulling through the sardines heads one by one. Carefully press the sides of the pastry onto the pie dish to seal it and trim off the long edges. 
  7.  Make a glaze with an egg and your milk, whisking them together and brush all over the pastry with your pastry brush. This will help give the pie a nice, brown colour. Bake in a hot oven, around 220 degrees C for 20 minutes or until the pastry is golden brown. Serve with the vegetables of your choosing (we went for peas!) and enjoy!

Notes

  • Storage - this pie will keep in the fridge in a sealed container for a day. 
  • Reheat - you can reheat the pie in the microwave on high for 2 minutes until steaming hot. 
  • Freeze - you can freeze leftover pie mix in a sealed container and defrost well before reheating (see above). 

Nutrition Information

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Calories 889kcal (44%) Carbohydrates 52g (17%) Protein 47g (94%) Fat 54g (83%) Saturated Fat 21g (105%) Polyunsaturated Fat 6g Monounsaturated Fat 18g Trans Fat 0.2g Cholesterol 324mg (108%) Sodium 1103mg (46%) Potassium 746mg (21%) Fiber 2g (8%) Sugar 4g (8%) Vitamin A 1036IU (21%) Vitamin C 2mg (2%) Calcium 273mg (27%) Iron 5mg (28%)

Nutrition Facts

Serving: 4people

Amount Per Serving

Calories 889 kcal

% Daily Value*

Calories 889kcal 44%
Carbohydrates 52g 17%
Protein 47g 94%
Fat 54g 83%
Saturated Fat 21g 105%
Polyunsaturated Fat 6g 35%
Monounsaturated Fat 18g 90%
Trans Fat 0.2g 10%
Cholesterol 324mg 108%
Sodium 1103mg 46%
Potassium 746mg 16%
Fiber 2g 8%
Sugar 4g 8%
Vitamin A 1036IU 21%
Vitamin C 2mg 2%
Calcium 273mg 27%
Iron 5mg 28%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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