Freezer Friendly Fish Pie
So cosy and comforting and freezes so brilliantly
Ingredients
For the Sauce
- 25 grams Butter
- 25 grams Plain Flour
- 300 ml Milk preferably warm
- 1 small Onion
- 0.5 tsp Paprika
- 1 tbsp Lemon Juice juice of half a lemon
For the Filling
- 1 pack Fish Pie Mix (can be frozen) or 4 Fish Fillets
- Good Handful Frozen Petit Pois
For the Top
- 400 grams Mashed Potato fridge cold
- Good handful Grated Cheese
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180° Fan or 200° Conventional.
- Finely chop the Onion. (Or remove chopped onion from the freezer)
- In a saucepan melt the Butter.
- Once the butter is foamy stir in the Flour to make a roux. Cook the flour out about 2 mins.
- Whisk in the Milk slowly, making sure it is smooth. The warm milk helps it incorporate better.
- Add the Onion, Paprika, Lemon Juice and a good pinch of Salt and Pepper. The lemon juice should cause it to thicken more also.This sauce should be thicker than you think it should be. The frozen fish will leak out water and thin out the sauce to create a short cut to creamy cosiness.
- In a large dish put the Fish Pie Mix or snip up fillets, and frozen peas.
- Add the Sauce to the fish and peas and mix to coat the fish. It won’t look pretty but it will taste fantastic.
- Take your mash out of the fridge and attack with your hands; kids love this part if you, like my fiancée, are not keen on the hands on approach.Crumble the mash over the fish mixture. I do a thin layer and then go back over and fill in the spaces.
- Scatter over the Cheese to cover the top.
- Bake in the oven for 35 – 45 mins until the top is crisp and the sauce is bubbling at the edges.
- I let this sit for 5-10 mins before slicing as it helps it hold together better for easier portioning.