Scallop and Monkfish Potato Pie

Name: Scallop and Monkfish Potato Pie
Ingredients: 1½ lb (700 g) potatoes, peeled, cooked and puréed; 2 tablespoons sherry; A little butter; 2 tablespoons butter; Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 tablespoon flour; ½ pint (275 ml) milk; 1 bay leaf; ¾ lb (350 g) monkfish tails (off the bone); 4 scallops; ½ lb (225 g) mushrooms, sliced

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Potato Year

By Lucy Madden

Published 2015

About

Fish pies are always welcome and this recipe uses an unusual combination of fish, although if scallops and monkfish are not available you will have to substitute whatever is and vary your cooking time accordingly.

Ingredients

1½ lb (700 g) potatoes, peeled, cooked and puréed
¾ lb (350 <

Fish course
Pescatarian
Breakfast
Pie
Wedding/Marriage
March

Method

While the potatoes are cooking, clean the monkfish and cut in pieces. Do the same with the scallops, reserving the red coral.

Simmer the fish (except for the coral) in milk, flavoured with the bay leaf for about 10 minutes or until cooked (the scallops will take less time). Strain, keeping the liquid.

Heat the butter, stir in the flour and the milk to make a sauce. Season, add t