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Comfort Food Friday: The cold and dark nights call for Cullen skink fish pie

Cullen skink fish pie. Image: Albert Bartlett.
Cullen skink fish pie. Image: Albert Bartlett.

This take on a fish pie using Cullen skink from Albert Bartlett is a real winter warmer, just what we need during cold and dark nights.

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Cullen skink fish pie

(Serves 6)

Cullen skink fish pie. Image: Albert Bartlett.

Ingredients

  • 500g undyed smoked haddock
  • 250ml whole milk
  • 250ml cold water
  • 50g unsalted butter
  • 2 leeks, white only, washed and diced
  • ¾ tsp mild curry powder
  • 1 tbsp plain flour
  • 250g Albert Bartlett Apache potatoes, small quartered, par cooked
  • 125g frozen peas
  • 1 small bunch snipped coriander
  • Salt and pepper
  • 3kg Albert Bartlett Rooster potatoes, peeled and diced
  • 150g unsalted cold butter, diced
  • 100ml warm whole milk
  • 1 bunch spring onions, sliced
  • Pinch dried chilli flakes
  • 2 egg yolks

Method

  1. Pre-heat your oven to 190C/170 Fan/375F/Gas Mark 5.
  2. Put the fish into a pan large enough to hold it comfortably and cover with milk and water. Bring gently to the boil.
  3. By the time it comes to the boil the fish should be just cooked – if it’s not then give it another minute or so. Remove the fish from the pan and allow to cool.
  4. Melt the butter in another pan on a medium heat. Add the leek and pinch of salt along with the curry powder. Cover and allow to sweat without colouring for about 10 minutes until the leeks are very soft.
  5. Dust the plain flour into the soft leeks, stir and combine and continue to cook for two minutes.
  6. Pour the haddock cooking liquor (haddock juices) throughout a sieve on to the flour and leeks.
  7. Add the par cooked Apache potatoes and turn up the heat slightly, simmer gently for 20-25 minutes.
  8. Add the frozen peas to the pot and break the haddock into flakes and add this to the pot too.
  9. With sharp scissors, snip the coriander and add into the haddock/potato mix too.
  10. Gently stir until all is evenly combined. Carefully pour all into a suitably-sized ovenproof dish and allow to cool slightly.
  11. Put the Roosters into a large pan and cover with cold water. Add 2 tsp salt and cook on a medium heat until fully tender.
  12. Drain the Roosters into a colander, discard the water and return the cooked potato to the pot. Reduce the heat and dry out a little.
  13. Mash the potato then beat in the cold butter. Pour in the warm milk and stir until smooth.
  14. Add the spring onions and a pinch of chilli flakes, stir well then add the egg yolks and stir until evenly mixed.
  15. Spoon the mashed potato on top of the “Cullen Skink” and spread evenly. Make a few ridges with the tips of a fork.
  16. Bake in the preheated oven for 35 minutes until heated through and crispy golden on top.