Healthy Fish Pie

Comfort food for a cold winters day and healthy too, what more could a girl want hey ! The pie also freezes fabulously too, so you can make double and freeze for another day , its fab served with broccoli or garden peas. Make sure when you are choosing the fish for in the pie you get a nice mixture of oily fish (salmon / trout), smoked and white fish. Pollack and number of other sustainable fish work fine in pies.
Its British pie week this week, so a very opportune posting this one, after all pies don't have to be all pastry ! 

Ingredients

• 1 packet of fish pie mix or ask your fishmonger for a mixed selection of fish suitable for a pie (white, oily and smoked),
• 100g prawns if using
• 1 large white onion - finely chopped
• Fish stock
• A little white wine
• Creme fraiche - 1 tbsp
• Parsley - dried or finely chopped fresh
• Dill - dried or finely chopped fresh
• 3 large white potatoes - suitable for mashing, peeled and chopped in to large chunks
• Vegetable oil
• Freshly ground black pepper
• cornflour - for thickening sauce (1 tbsp mixed with a little water to make a smooth paste)

Method

• Put the potatoes onto boil in a large saucepan
• Heat a little oil in a large frying pan, gently seal the fish until just coloured then remove to plate
• Cook in the large frying pan the onion gently until softened, now add a little wine to de-glaze the pan of the lovely fishy juices
• Add fish stock and bring to a gentle simmer, now add the herbs and slaked cornflour to bring the sauce to the desired thickness
• Simmer and add the fish back to the sauce, reduce the heat and add the creme fraiche
• Stir and remove from heat
• Pour into your pie dish and allow to cool a little
• Now on to the mash, by now the potatoes should be tender, remove from the heat and drain and mash adding a little butter and pepper if so required
• Once you have a smooth mash, top the pie with a generous layer of mash
• Bake in a pre heated oven at 180c for approx 30 minutes until lovely and golden and bubbly
• Serve with a green vegetable.