Puff pastry fish pie

Good-quality fish stock is a must for this pie. So, grab some fish bones from your local fishmonger (flat fish bones make the best stock) and make a batch and freeze the excess for future recipes.

Puff pastry fish pie

SERVES

4

PEOPLE

PREP TIME

20

MINUTES

COOKING TIME

80

MINUTES

Ingredients

  • Fish stock:

  • 275g fish bones (stomachs and heads removed)

  • 1 tbsp rapeseed oil

  • 1 onion sliced

  • 1 stick of celery sliced

  • 1 small leek sliced

  • 4 cloves garlic

  • ½ tsp whole black peppercorns

  • 3.5 litre water

  • Fabulous Fish Pie:

  • 400ml milk

  • 300g fresh fish, diced into bite-sized chunks (such as hake, monkfish, pollock, cod)

  • 200g smoked fish, diced into bite-sized chunks (such as haddock, coley or pollock)

  • 70g butter

  • 1 leek diced

  • 2 cloves of garlic, minced

  • 70g plain flour

  • 350ml warm fish stock

  • 1tb Dijon mustard

  • 1 tb chopped parsley

  • 1tb chopped dill

  • 1 lemon zested

  • For the topping:

  • 1 x 320g sheet puff pastry

  • 2 egg yolks beaten

  • Sea salt flakes

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