Galician Fish Pie

Name: Galician Fish Pie
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons olive oil; 24 roughly blanched almonds; 6 medium potatoes, peeled and very thinly sliced; salt and pepper; 6 tomatoes, skinned, deseeded and chopped, or 400 g (14 oz) tin chopped tomatoes; 1 bay leaf; 4 medium onions, finely chopped; 2 garlic cloves, chopped; 500 g (18 oz) thin fillets of cod; 30 g (1¼ oz) butter

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Potty!

By Clarissa Dickson Wright

Published 2010

About

There was a time in my youth when my mother had a series of Spanish couples who came to work for us and who came from Galicia, which is that area of north-western Spain above Portugal, famous for its fish.

Ingredients

24 roughly blanched almonds
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 garlic cloves, chopped

Europe
Spain
Portugal
Galicia
Fish course
Pescatarian
Pie
Mediterranean
Gluten-free

Method

Pound the almonds in a mortar until they’re a rough paste. Heat the olive oil in a sauté pan that will go in the oven and slowly cook the garlic, onions and bay leaf for about 15 minutes or until the onions are soft. Add the tomatoes, season and cook for a further 10 minutes. Add the almonds and cook for another 5-10 minutes. Remove the bay leaf.

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