Favorite Fisherman's Pie

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 1/2 pounds potatoes
• 2 bay leaves, divided
• salt and ground black pepper to taste
• 28 fluid ounces milk, divided, or more if needed
• 1/2 cup butter, divided
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 8 ounces skinless haddock
• 8 ounces skinless salmon
• 8 ounces skinless smoked fish
• 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 leek, sliced
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley, or more to taste
• 2 scallions, chopped
• 1 teaspoon spicy mustard
• 8 ounces cooked shrimp, peeled and deveined

Recipe

Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ready Time: 1 hr 20 mins


• place potatoes into a large pot; add 1 bay leaf, salt, and pepper. cover potatoes with water; bring to a boil. reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until tender, about 20 minutes. drain and return potatoes to pot. mash potatoes with 8 ounces milk and 1/4 cup butter until smooth.
• preheat oven to 200 degrees f (95 degrees c). spread olive oil into the bottom of a 12-inch square baking dish.
• combine remaining 20 ounces milk and 1 bay leaf in a large, deep saucepan and bring to a simmer. cook haddock, salmon, and smoked fish, working in batches if needed, until fish flakes easily with a fork, about 5 minutes. remove fish from milk and separate into chunks on a work surface. arrange fish and shrimp in the bottom of the prepared baking dish, reserving milk.
• pour the milk used to cook the fish into a measuring cup, adding more if needed to equal 2 1/2 cups.
• heat remaining butter in the same large saucepan over low heat; slowly whisk flour into melted butter until smooth. add the 2 1/2 cups milk, leek, parsley, scallions, and mustard; simmer until thickened, about 5 minutes. pour milk mixture over fish and shrimp and top with the mashed potatoes, spreading evenly.
• bake in the preheated oven until bubbling around the corners and lightly browned, 30 to 45 minutes.