Fish pot pies

Recipes / Fish

Use your spoon to break through the crunchy crust to reveal the delicious fish filling hidden underneath.

Recipe «Fish pot pies» presented in category Recipes / Fish, to prepare this dish you will need no more 35 minutes. To make this dish at home by prescription from the author Gomer would need: 700g smoked cod*, 500ml milk, 2 bay leaves, 1 tbsp chopped flat-leaf parsley, 2 hard-boiled eggs, peeled, roughly chopped , 1 cup broccoli florets, blanched, 50g unsalted butter, 4 tbsp plain flour , 100ml white wine, 2 sheets puff pastry, 1 egg, beaten.

Ingredients:

  • 700g smoked cod* 
  • 500ml milk 
  • 2 bay leaves 
  • 1 tbsp chopped flat-leaf parsley 
  • 2 hard-boiled eggs, peeled, roughly chopped 
  • 1 cup broccoli florets, blanched 
  • 50g unsalted butter 
  • 4 tbsp plain flour 
  • 100ml white wine 
  • 2 sheets puff pastry 
  • 1 egg, beaten 

Instructions

  1. Place the cod, milk and bay leaves in a frying pan and bring to the boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Drain, reserving the milk. Discard the skin from the cod, break flesh into flakes and place in a bowl. Add parsley, eggs and broccoli.
  2. Melt the butter in a clean saucepan over medium heat. Add the flour and cook for 1 minute until it starts to honeycomb (when small bubbles appear over the surface). Add the wine and the reserved milk, season with salt and pepper and cook for 1-2 minutes until thickened. Combine with the fish mixture and divide between the ramekins, then set aside to cool.
  3. Preheat oven to 180°C.
  4. Cut out four 12cm circles from the pastry sheets and brush one side with egg. Place pastry, egg side down, over the dish, pressing down to stick to the sides of the dish. Brush tops with remaining egg and bake for 20 minutes until golden.