Categories: FishMain Dishes

Fish Pie

This is not hard recipe to do, but pretty nice one. My mom used to cook it all the time when we were kids: it can be served right away while it is still warm, or later warmed up or cold.

You can use any fish for this recipe (excluding the one with tons of bones), but red and fatty kind will work the best here. I used salmon.

Recipe for portion of unsweetened yeast dough I used can be found here.

Bay leaves here are optional, I like to use them, but they need to be removed before eating, so if you don’t want to do that, just skip them altogether.

Ingredients:

  • 1lb-1.5lb salmon fillets or another fish to your taste
  • 2 onions
  • Portion of unsweetened yeast dough
  • Few bay leaves (optional)
  • Tablespoon of butter
  • Ground black pepper to taste
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil

How to prepare, step-by-step:

  1. Prepare ingredients:
    Fish Pie Recipe: Step 1
  2. Warm up skillet with a bit of oil, peel and slice onions into quarter circles, add them to the skillet, and fry until soft and fully cooked, stir from time to time. Once ready set it aside to cool down:
    Fish Pie Recipe: Step 2
  3. Remove skin from fish (and if it has bones, remove them too) and slice fish in pieces:
    Fish Pie Recipe: Step 3
  4. Warm up oven to 360F. Knead dough with few strokes, then divide it into 2 equal pieces:
    Fish Pie Recipe: Step 4
  5. Roll both of dough pieces into the same size sheets:
    Fish Pie Recipe: Step 5
  6. Arrange one of dough sheet on piece of parchment paper on baking sheet:
    Fish Pie Recipe: Step 6
  7. Arrange half of fried onions over it, leave sides free:
    Fish Pie Recipe: Step 7
  8. Put all fish on top (this step will do nothing different than the next one, but I really had to have it because photo looks great):
    Fish Pie Recipe: Step 8
  9. Even the fish layer up:
    Fish Pie Recipe: Step 9
  10. Salt and season fish with ground black pepper and add bay leaves (if you choose to do so, you will need to remove them before eating the pie):
    Fish Pie Recipe: Step 10
  11. Cover with remaining onions in a layer:
    Fish Pie Recipe: Step 11
  12. And cover second sheet of dough:
    Fish Pie Recipe: Step 12
  13. Seal edges, pierce top sheet of dough in few places with fork or toothpick and put pie to the oven for about 50 mins:
    Fish Pie Recipe: Step 13
  14. Once ready, take sheet out of oven, and smear pie with butter, cover pie few kitchen towels and set it aside for about 20 mins:
    Fish Pie Recipe: Step 14
  15. Then pie is ready:
    Fish Pie Recipe: Step 15
  16. Slice it up and serve:
    Fish Pie Recipe
Enjoy!