Recipe(tried): New Zealand Fish Pie and Irish Fish Pie

New Zealand Fish Pie
Another great recipe from New Zealand.

2 tbsp. butter
1 small onion, chopped
1/2 tsp. curry powder
2 tbsp. flour
2 cans smoked fish or appox. 3 cups of your own
3/4 cup milk
Black pepper
2 sheets pre-rolled flaky pastry
1 egg yolk

Melt butter in a saucepan. Add onion and cook until clear. Stir in curry powder. Cook for 30 seconds. Stir in flour and cook until frothy. Gradually add milk, stirring constantly until mixture boils and thickens. Remove from heat. Add fish and pepper to taste. Stir and set aside until cool.

Place one sheet of pastry in a pie tin. Spread fish mixture over pastry and then dampen edges of pastry with a little water. Carefully top with the second sheet of pastry and crimp the edges together in your favorite design. Lightly beat egg yolk and brush top surface of pie.

Bake at 425 F or 220 C for approximately 20 minutes or until crust

Irish Fish Pie

1 1/2 lb firm white fish fillets
This is one of my favourite ways to serve fish, wonderful an so easy.enjoy..,Angel in oz

1 large leek, chopped
2 strips lemon rind
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
8 peppercorns
2 bay leaves
6 parsley stalks
2 1/2 cups milk
1 oz butter
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 extra leek, chopped
1/2 cup spring onions, chopped
2 tbsp plain flour
extra milk or cream
2 lb potatoes, cooked and mashed
ground pepper
1 tsp paprika (optional)

Preheat oven to 400F

Place fish fillets in a pan, add leek, lemon rind, nutmeg, peppercorns, bay leaves and parsley stalks. Pour in milk and simmer uncovered over a low heat for about 15 minutes or until fish is cooked.

Carefully remove fish fillets, strain off the liquid and reserve for sauce.

Melt butter in a pan, add garlic, leeks and spring onions. Cook over a low heat for 7 minutes or until leeks soften. Remove half the mixture and reserve.

To make the sauce:
Sprinkle flour over remaining mixture in pan and blend until smooth. Measure the reserved poaching milk and make up to 1 cups with extra milk or cream. Add to blended flour in pan, stir until mixture comes to the boil and thickens. Cook for 1 minute longer.

Cut fish into chunky pieces and fold gently through the sauce. Add reserved leek and spring onion mixture to mashed potatoes. Season both sauce and potato mixture with pepper.

Pour fish sauce into greased shallow casserole dish and top with mashed potatoes, using a fork to make a pattern. Sprinkle with paprika.

Bake at 400F for 20 minutes or until topping is brown.