Whiting and Potato Pie

Not every dish in the Maghrebi kitchen is highly spiced. This fish pastel recipe appears in La cuisine juive d’Afrique du Nord and in Moroccan Jewish Cookery by Viviane and Nina Moryoussef. Layers of mashed potatoes enclose a delicately seasoned chopped fish filling. A tender white fish in the cod family will do in place of the classic whiting. Although the potatoes are boiled, you could bake them if you like. This is an ideal dish for entertaining, as it can be assembl