How to bake a Perfect Fish Pie

Red Snapper is a cheap fish which can be used well in a flavored Fish Pie but if you are willingly to fork out more money, you could treat your family members with cod fish or haddock fish.

Some people are sensitive to fish odor but if you choose the right type of fish, you could hardly smell any fishy odor at all.

Some of the fish I could recommend you to try for a perfect Fish Pie is fish cod, Red Snapper, haddock or Dory fish.

This is a family pie that belonged to my grandmother for generations.

Grandma used to bake tasty Fish Pie for us during festive season because it is a rare occasion that she would bake for us.

Fish Pie may take a few hours ahead for you to prepare in advance, to minimal the haste.

Sometimes, grandmother would prepare the ingrdients one night beforehand and wake up early in the morning to bake them, that awoke us up with the aromatic smell of the baked pies.

For this Fish Pie, grandmother used to buy Red Snapper from the wet market.

She would remove the intestines, scrap off the scales, use the spoon to scrap off the flesh from the bones.

I would rather use the easy method, buy a white fish cod or Dory fish from the wet market because it has less bones and more white soft fish flesh without any fishy odor.

Although white fish cod and Dory fish may be expensive, it is worth to spend a little more for my family.

Fish Pie Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3 large potatoes
• 2 tbsp low fat milk
• 2 tso olive oil
• 1 garlic-chopped
• 1 small onion-chopped
• 1 small green pepper ( capcium)-remove seeds, halved and sliced
• 1 tsp cayenne powder
• 1 tbsp plain flour
• 2 fresh tomatoes- remove seeds, chopped
• 3 tbsp water
• 1 medium size haddock / cod fish or Red Snapper
• 60g shrimps-remove shells
• 2 tbsp butter

Method of making Fish Pie

• Preheat the oven to 190C
• Peel the potatoes, cut them into wedges, put them into a pot of water with 1 tsp salt. Boil until the potato wedges turned soft and tender.
• Drain the soften potatoes, mash them with the back of a fork and then mix with low fat milk. Stir until the mashed potatoes diluted well with the milk.
• Heat up olive oil in a saucepan, add in chopped garlic and onion, saute until fragrant.
• Add in green pepper, stir fry for 3 min.
• Stir in cayenne powder and flour into the saucepan.
• Gradually, pour in the chopped tomatoes and water into it.
• Bring to boil, keep stirring all the time.
• Remove the skin from the fish, remove the bones and cut them into small pieces.
• Place the fish on top of the vegetables, partially covered the saucepan and simmer for 10 min.
• Stir in the shrimps into the fish and vegetables, mix well.
• Then, transfer all the ingredients into a oven proof dish.
• Spoon the mashed potato on top of the fish dish and level the surface with a spoon.
• Dab small pieces of butter over the potato here and there.
• Bake in the oven for 20-30min.
• Then transfer the Fish Pie into a grill to brown the mashed potato.

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