You can use any fish you want inside the pie, I like the combination of smoked and unsmoked fish for added flavour and frozen prawns are a great shout too. I have recently discovered how good frozen fish is too which also works well here.
Usually I would grate cheese over the buttered mash, but here, I just mashed with a few drops of milk (part of Healthy Option A Choice) and brushed the mash potato topping with egg to help it to brown in the oven.
The below serves a family of four - or four portions.
 |
| Healthy Fish Pie (Slimming World Friendly) |
Here's how:
- 1 onion
- 2 sticks of celery
- 1 cod fillet
- 1 smoked cod or haddock fillet
- 1 salmon fillet
- 1 pack frozen raw king prawns
- 1 fish stock cube
- x4 tbsp half fat creme fraiche
- 1 tsp Colman's English Mustard Powder
- 200g frozen petit pois peas
- 400g white potatoes (any that mash well but I like Maris Pipers)
- 1 egg
- Salt
- Black Pepper
- Fry Light Sunflower Oil
Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees and fill a large saucepan with water and a pinch of salt.
Peel the potatoes and chop into small pieces and add to the water, bring to the boil on a medium heat, then turn down and simmer for twenty minutes or until the potatoes are cooked right through. Drain and then return the potatoes to the pan and place back on the heat for a few seconds, shaking, which will help to remove any leftover water in the potatoes so they don't turn to mush.
Remove from the heat, mash with a little milk and season with salt and pepper to taste then set aside.
For the fish pie sauce, add some Fry Light, just a couple of sprays, to a frying pan on a medium heat. Dice the onion and finely slice the celery and add to the pan to gently soften. Make up the fish stock cube in 150ml boiled water and add to the pan, keeping on a medium heat. Add the creme fraiche, the mustard powder and some black pepper and mix well until combined. Cook for a good ten minutes or until the sauce is quite thick and glossy.
To prepare the fish, simply chop the cod, salmon and if you are using, haddock, into bite sized pieces. Remove the fish pie sauce from the heat, and add the chopped fish and whole prawns into the sauce alongside the frozen peas and stir well.
 |
| Healthy Fish Pie (Slimming World Friendly) |
Now place all of the contents of the pan into an oven proof dish and try to evenly distribute the fish all around.
Spoon over the mash potato all over the dish, and use the back of the spoon, to spread it a little smoothly, you want the odd peak here and there. I like to season the potato again here with some white pepper.
Now beat the egg in a small bowl, and use a pastry brush to rub all over the mash potato, which will help it to brown.
Place into the hot oven and bake for 25 minutes or until the mash has browned a little. Serve with your choice of vegetables. Enjoy!
 |
| Healthy Fish Pie (Slimming World friendly) |
If you are after other Slimming World friendly family recipes I've included a few below.
No comments:
Post a Comment