After a little research of British cuisine, I decided to make a fish pie!
Ingredients
2 lbs white potatoes, cut into pieces
1 carrot, shredded
2 sticks celery, shredded
5 oz Cheddar cheese, shredded
1 lemon
2 1/4 lbs tilapia, cut into pieces
4 oz shrimp, cleaned and peeled
olive oil
1 handful baby spinach
2 tomatoes, quartered
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 400. Bring a large pot of salted water to boil. Add the potatoes and cook for 12 minutes. Once the potatoes are tender, mash together with several glugs of olive oil.
2. Place the grated carrot, celery, and cheese together in a baking dish. Zest the lemon into the baking dish. Cut the tilapia into bite size pieces. Mix the tilapia, shrimp, spinach, and tomatoes in with the grated vegetables.
3. Spread the mashed potatoes on top of the dish. Bake for 40 minutes.
* serves 6
For the base, I use a white fish, prawns (shrimp) and smoked fish, which I first poach in milk, which is then used to make a white sauce. I'll season it with salt and pepper and a touch of nutmeg. For the potato mash, I opt for butter and milk and will add grated cheese on top before baking. I did say it was far less healthy, didn't I ?!;)
That's pretty similar to what I make, too. I poach haddock and salmon in milk, then make parsley sauce with the milk. A layer of peas, then mashed cauliflower (I don't eat poatoes), and cheese on top!
on second glance though, he did use smoked fish. I don't even know where to buy that!
But that's where the tomatoes came from.
Edited at 2013-03-06 01:19 am (UTC)
Love that! and this looks like a really simple recipe to follow. I may make this this weekend, only perhaps adding some whitesauce, if I feel like making it, hehehe!
Now rather than sell the offcuts for very little money, they sell bags of 'fish pie mix'.