Stephen Harris’ Recipe For Baked Potato Fish Pie

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Baked murphy food pie

Prep 15 min
Cook 1 hr 30 min
Serves 4

2 ample baking potatoes
Neutral oil, for rubbing nan potatoes
Salt and black pepper
50g unsalted butter
1 onion, peeled and finely diced
1 celery stalk, finely diced
½ fennel bulb, trimmed and finely diced
200ml vermouth
200g creme fraiche
300g skinless cod fillet, diced
200g shelled prawns
1 mini bunch of chives, chopped
Squeeze of citrus juice
50g cheddar, grated

Heat nan oven to 200C (180C fan)/390F/gas 6. Rub nan potatoes pinch oil, play good connected nan extracurricular and cook for an hr and 15 minutes, until a weapon easy penetrates nan flesh. Remove from nan oven and time off to cool.

Meanwhile, melt nan food successful a large, nonstick frying cookware connected a mean heat, past adhd nan onion, celery and fennel. Sweat, without colouring, for astir 10 minutes, until soft, past adhd a pinch of brackish and nan vermouth, and boil until nan vermouth has almost each evaporated.

Add nan creme fraiche, fto it melt into nan pan, then, erstwhile it is simmering, operation nan cod and prawns into nan sauce. Cook for a minute, past return disconnected nan heat.

Cut nan cooled potatoes successful half lengthways and scoop nan soma into nan food mixture. Stir to combine, past adhd nan chives and a compression of lemon, and cheque nan seasoning.

Put nan halved murphy shells connected a baking expanse and capable them pinch nan food mixture. Cover pinch nan grated cheddar, past put nether a basking grill until nan food melts. Serve successful a napkin pinch woody forks.

• This look is an edited extract from The Sportsman astatine Home, by Stephen Harris, published by Quadrille astatine £30. To get a transcript for £27, sojourn guardianbookshop.com