Fish Recipes: Quick and Easy Free Fish Recipes for Country Cooking

Creamy Fish Pie (Serves 6)

This is a nice creamy fish pie; packed with flavour and very simple to make.

225 g frozen cod fillets or similar fish

225 g smoked haddock fillets

283 g can of condensed celery soup

368g frozen puff pastry

1 T chopped parsley

milk

Poach the fish gently in a pan of shallow milk until cooked. Then drain the milk and flake the fish with a fork. Remove any skin and bones. Place in a bowl and stir in the tinned soup.

Roll out the pastry on a floured board and cut 2 rounds that will be big enough to cover a shallow, ovenproof dish.

Butter the dish and line it with the one pastry round. Spoon the fish mixture onto the pastry and making sure that the other pastry round will fit, place it on the top.

Moisten the edges with water and press with a fork to seal. Use left-over pastry to decorate pie.

Brush the top with a beaten egg, and make two slits in the top for the steam to escape. Bake in a hot oven at 220°C, 425°F, Gas Mark 7) for 30 minutes or until well-risen and golden brown.

This is a great fish dish that needs no fuss. First of all make a lemon mayonnaise which you will cover the fish with.

Lemon Mayonnaise

1 egg

25 ml fresh lemon juice

10 ml brown sugar

2 ml salt

25 ml oil

Put all the ingredients into a blender and pour in, in a slow steady stream, 200 ml oil, finger on the button all the time. Spoon into bowl and stir in:

1 clove of crushed garlic,

and finely grated rind of 1/2 medium lemon.

Cover and let stand for several hours. Now take:

500 g sole fillets

250 ml bread crumbs

2 ml salt

First dip the fillets in the mayonnaise, coating both sides. Thin the mayonnaise with a little milk or cream, if necessary. Then coat with the breadcrumbs, mixed with the salt. Chill.

To bake, cover a large baking sheet with tin foil, shiny side up, and smear liberally with oil. Heat a few minutes at 180°C. Then arrange fillets, turning once in the oil. Bake at 180°C for 10 - 12 minutes and serve with lemon slices, some lettuce and tartare sauce.

Why spend time slaving away in the kitchen making pastry when you can have a recipe that does it for you?

1/2 cup flour

5 eggs

60 g butter

200 g smoked salmon pieces

1 onion, diced

salt and ground black pepper to taste

1 cup grated cheddar cheese

Place the flour, eggs, dill and butter in a food processor to combine. Pour egg mixture into a well-buttered pie dish. Top with salmon, onion and season to taste. Sprinkle with cheese. Bake at 180°C for 35 - 40 minutes or until mixture is set and top is golden brown.

Note: You could ring the changes with this pie by using bacon and leeks instead.