Fish Pie

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 1/2 lbs fish fillets (or half and half salmon)
• 2 cups milk, maybe â½ cup more,depending how thick you want the sauce
• 4 ounces margarine or 4 ounces butter
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 4 ounces peeled prawns
• 2 chopped hardboiled egg
• 1 tablespoon small caper
• 3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
• 1/2 cup peas
• 1 finely chopped celery rib
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 2 lbs freshly cooked potatoes
• 1 ounce margarine or 1 ounce butter
• 2 -3 tablespoons sour cream
• a good grating nutmeg

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 400 degrees f.
• 2 put the fish in a baking dish and season with salt and pepper.
• 3 pour over 1 cup of the milk and dot with a few flecks of butter, bake in the oven for 15 minutes.
• 4 strain but reserve the cooking juices, remove any skin from the fish and flake the flesh in large pieces.
• 5 make the sauce, melt the rest of the butter in a saucepan, stir in the flour and cook it for 1 minute, start adding the cooking juices bit by bit, stirring all the time, after that add the rest of the milk, if still too thick just add a little more milk.
• 6 season the sauce with salt and pepper.
• 7 mix in to the sauce: fish, prawns, eggs, capers, parsley, peas and celery, add the lemon juice and check the seasoning.
• 8 pour the fish mixture in a 1½ liter greased ovenproof dish.
• 9 mash the potatoes with the butter, sour cream and nutmeg, check the seasoning, and then spread this on top of the fish.
• 10 bake in the oven at 400f for 30 –40 minutes.