I love Fish Pie and my kids love anything with white sauce so we eat it often in our house! For this rendition I have used Hash Bites (often called Tater Tots) instead of pastry or mashed potato on top. It works beautifully! They go golden brown and crunchy and mega easy!

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Fish pie quite is great for using odds and ends of vegetables and fish. I like to use a firm fleshed fish like Monkfish or Hoki so that it stays together when cooking but it’s not essential.

Ingredients:

Onion, brown
Oil, canola, olive or vegetable oil. used for frying
Fish, I like to use a firm fleshed fish like Hoki or Monkfish, and for a more traditional Fish Pie I use a combination of 300grams monkfish, 250grams gurnard, 200 grams Smoked Warehou.
Frozen peas
Potato cubed and boiled before cooking the recipe
Eggs hard boiled & cut in half
1 x 700 gram Packet of Hash Bites / Tater tots
Butter
White flour
Milk
salt and pepper

How to make Fish Pie with Hash Bites:

Sauté onions and mix with fish & peas: In a pan over a medium heat, add the oil and then the onion. Sauté the onion until translucent. Take off the heat and reserve until later. Place the fish, potatoes and peas in a large bowl. Add the onion and lightly season with salt.

Prepare the white sauce: Make the white sauce by melting the butter in a pot over a medium heat. Add the flour and cook for 1 minute stirring the whole time. It will start to foam. Remove from the heat and add a little milk. Stirring constantly. Put back on the heat. Gradually keep adding the milk and stirring. White sauce isn’t scary. If it gets lumpy just grab a whisk and give it a wee whisk. I usually do. If it is too thick add a little more milk. Once cooked to your desired consistency, season and wait to cool for a few mins before pouring over the fish mixture.

Assemble the pie: In your pie dish or baking dish, put the fish mixture. Roughly level the top. Then make 6 small indentations with a spoon and add the eggs. Top with frozen Hash Bites. Bake at 180 for approx. 45 mins until fish is cooked and Hash Bites are golden. Serve with greens.

If you are looking for more recipes using fish check out my posts for Polenta Crusted Fish & Chips Spicy Fish Stew.

Common questions about Fish Pie with Hash Bites:

What if I don’t want to add eggs? Simply leave them out 🙂

Instead of peas? You could use corn, blanched broccoli, blanched green beans or diced carrot.

What wine would you serve with this dish? A lovely unoaked Chardonnay would match well with the creamy sauce.

Fish Pie with Hash Bites

Author Jana Macpherson

Ingredients

1 Onion – finely diced
1 teaspoon oil canola, olive or vegetable oil
750 grams Fish cut into 2cm chunks, I am using Hoki
1 cup frozen peas thawed
1 cup Potato cubed and boiled
3 Eggs hard boiled & cut in half
1 packet of 700 gram hash bites or tater tops

White Sauce

1/3 cup butter
1/3 cup White flour
2 ½ cup milk
salt and pepper

Instructions

In a pan over a medium heat, add the oil and then the onion. Sauté the onion until translucent. Take off the heat and reserve until later
Place the fish and peas in a large bowl.
Add the onion and lightly season with salt.
Make the white sauce by melting the butter in a pot over a medium heat.
Add the flour and cook for 1 minute stirring the whole time. It will start to foam.
Remove from the heat and add a little milk. Stirring constantly. Put back on the heat. Gradually keep adding the milk and stirring. White sauce isn’t scary. If it gets lumpy just grab a whisk and give it a wee whisk. I usually do. If it is too thick add a little more milk.
Once cooked to your desired consistency, season and wait to cool for a few mins before pouring over the fish mixture
In your pie dish or baking dish, put the fish mixture. Roughly level the top. Then make 6 small indentations with a spoon and add the eggs
Top with frozen Hash Bites.
Bake at 180 for approx. 45 mins until fish is cooked and Hash Bites are golden.
Serve with greens.

Recipe Notes

I like to use a firm fleshed fish like Hoki or Monkfish, and for a more traditional Fish Pie I use a combination of 300grams monkfish, 250grams gurnard, 200 grams Smoked Warehou. If using smoked fish flake this first.

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