I love fish pie, and gnocchi, and harissa, so what might be higher than a mixture of all three? Significantly if it saves you quarter-hour’ boiling after which mashing some potatoes. Bookmark this for chillier summer time evenings – I’m decided to eat as many meals as doable outdoors proper now, and this can hold you heat when the temperature dips to an unseasonal sub-15C.
Harissa and gnocchi-topped fish pie
Use your favorite sort of fish, or add some prawns, for those who like.
Prep 15 min
Cook dinner 20 min
Serves 4
250ml milk
50g rose harissa – I like Belazu
100g cream cheese
1 tsp sea salt flakes
260g sustainably-sourced cod, or different white fish, reduce into roughly 3½cm chunks
260g trout, reduce into roughly 3½cm chunks
150g frozen peas, defrosted
500g gnocchi (contemporary or vac-packed)
20g salted butter
100g cheddar, grated
Put the milk, harissa, cream cheese and salt in a big saucepan, activate the warmth and whisk till the cheese melts and is totally included. Deliver to a boil, then flip down the warmth to a naked simmer – simply the tiniest bubbles ought to break the floor, in any other case you’ll boil the fish. Add all of the fish and go away to poach for 10 minutes. Add the peas for the final two minutes. As soon as cooked, the fish ought to very gently flake aside when reduce with a fork, however nonetheless neatly maintain its form.
Utilizing a slotted spoon, switch the fish to a pie dish or small roasting tin, then scoop out the peas and scatter excessive. Deliver the harissa milk combine again to a boil, drop within the gnocchi and prepare dinner for 2 minutes. Then – and stick with me right here – you’re going to carry a colander over the fish dish and pour the harissa milk by way of it on to the fish, leaving the gnocchi within the colander. Stir the butter by way of the gnocchi within the colander, then tip the gnocchi evenly over the contents of the pie dish.
Activate the grill to medium-high, scatter the cheese over the gnocchi, then grill the fish pie for 3 to 5 minutes, till the cheese is golden brown and effervescent – this will take barely kind of time, relying on how fierce your grill is, so control it. Serve sizzling with a glass of one thing chilly alongside.