FISH PIE WITH CHEESE PASTRY CRUST
Ingredients
- 1 shallot
- peeled and chopped
- olive oil
- 110ml/4fl oz fish stock
- 110ml/4fl oz double cream
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 300g/10½oz ready-to-roll puff pastry
- 700g/1½lb fish
- cut into chunks (salmon
- cod
- haddock or mixture)
- 110g/4oz mushrooms
- sliced
- 3 tbsp chives
- chopped
- 4 slices Emmenthal cheese
- 2 tbsp grain mustard
- 1 egg
- beaten
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
- Sauté the shallot in a little olive oil. After a few minutes add the fish stock and cream and bring to the boil. Season and leave to one side.
- Roll out the pastry to twice the size of the ovenproof dish.
- Place the fish
- mushrooms and chives in the dish. Season and cover with the sauce.
- Spread half of the pastry with the mustard and cheese. Fold the other half over the top
- sandwiching the mustard and cheese in the middle.
- Top the pie with the pastry
- crimp the edges and then egg wash.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes.

