Fish pie that’s easy to assemble with just five ingredients. This family favourite recipe will leave you hands free to help with the homework. Recipe post commissoned by Iceland as part of their #PowerofFrozen campaign.
Fish pie is one of our favourite comfort foods. I’m especially excited to discover a tasty version I can knock up in minutes and leave to cook in oven. No faffing about cooking potatoes separately, no complicated sauces.
Families love heart meals in the week but with so much else to do, I’d not normally consider a homemade fish pie from scratch as an easy option.
Until now.
Iceland is somewhere I’ve only shopped intermittently purely because the branch isn’t as easy to drive to or park near as local alternatives. But since refreshing my knowledge of their hero products, I think I’m going to have to invest in a bigger freezer.
I love frozen food and my freezer is the backbone of my store cupboard ingredients not to mention meals cooked in advance.
Here are some foods I discovered when revisiting my local branch:
Ostrich fillets from the Kezie speciality meat range. Other frozen speciality meats include crocodile burgers, kangaroo fillets, venison haunch steaks and wildboard and apple sausages.
We’ve not eaten our ostrich fillets yet but check out these amazing venison steaks over at Supergolden, guaranteed to make you drool.
I chose to do a recipe with speciality fish – the Iceland range includes swordfish loins, black tiger prawns, calamari rings and scallops. Pictured above are their Atlantic prawns and Arctic luxury fish pie mix.
Camilla made lemony sea bass fillets for her #PowerofFrozen recipe.
More unusual vegetables on offer included these asparagus spears and also kale, rainbow carrots, spiced lentils, quinoa mixes, onion rings and cauliflower cheese florets.
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Choclette at Tin & Thyme used the asparagus spears in this fabulous vegetable galette with flaky pastry.
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Jac at Tinned Tomatoes made use of frozen mushroom soup and frozen parsley in her creamy mushroom potato dauphinoise.
My biggest surprises in store were frozen sushi – simply defrost for two hours then eat.
And these bread and pastry products; mini Danish pastry selection and a loaf of bread in a box to bake freshly from frozen. For my husband I bought a six pack of custard slices which I’m delighted to store in the freezer as the fresh ones have such short dates on them and now he can get one out twenty minutes before he fancies one!
Are you a regular shopper in Iceland? I was genuinely surprised by the breadth of items you could buy frozen not to mention the large selection of non frozen items sold alongside at low prices. I tend to think of Iceland as being aisles of freezers only but actually you can stock up on fresh vegetables, chilled products, store cupboard essentials and cleaning bits and bobs all in the same shop. Oh and did I say they currently offer FREE delivery when you spend just £35?
Five minute fish pie family food hack
Here’s how I bashed out our fish pie in barely more than minutes and put my feet up for an hour whilst it baked. Printable recipe below too.
Preheat the oven to gas mark 6 / 200c. Lay Iceland’s Arctic luxury fish pie mix in a large baking dish.
Arrange Iceland cauliflower and broccoli cheese florets on top.
Pour over 500ml of instant parsley sauce (Iceland sell a Colman’s version or you could use the Bisto granules kind).
Arrange frozen potato slices on top and bake for twenty minutes at gas mark 6 / 200c. Then remove from oven and cover with foil to prevent burning. Bake for a further 40 minutes then remove from oven one last time, scatter over grated cheese and pop back in to brown without the foil cover.
After another 15-20 minutes, you should have something like this. Ta-dah!
Five Ingredient Fish Pie Family Food Hack
Ingredients
- 1 x 600g pack Iceland's Arctic Royal luxury frozen fish pie mix
- 340 g half pack Iceland cauliflower and broccoli cheese florets
- 325 g half pack Iceland crispy potato slices
- 500 ml instant parsley sauce*
- 75 g grated cheese
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to gas mark 6 / 200c.
- Arrange the frozen fish pie mix into a large baking dish.
- Arrange the frozen cauliflower and broccoli cheese florets on top.
- Pour over the instant parsley sauce*
- Arrange over the crispy potato slices spreading them out evenly.
- Bake for 20 minutes then take out of the oven to loosely cover the top surface with a sheet of foil, return to the oven for a futher 40 minutes.
- After 40 minutes, remove the foil and scatter over the cheese. Return to the oven to brown off for around 15 minutes.
Notes
I am sending this fishy bake to #BAKEoftheWEEK which I co-host with Helen at Casa Costello;
Charlotte’s March #FoodYear linkup;
Kirsty’s Cook Blog Share at Hijacked by Twins
Fish pie recipe post commissioned by Iceland for their #PowerofFrozen campaign.
Great idea to top a fish pie with potato slices. I usually top mine with mash but will have to give this a go next time! #CookBlogShare
Love this fish pie Sarah. I was in Iceland again today as I had an appointment nearby! I bought the box of bread which was half price today and even had the broccoli and cauliflower cheese in my hand but knew I was pushed for freezer space so stuck with some other bits. I also bought their gelato which I’ve heard so much about so am looking forward to trying that too! Thanks for including my Seabass & Colcannon recipe:-)
Such a good idea Sarah, I am so impressed with Iceland, as soon as there is space in my freezer I am off to stock up some more.
Mmmmm wow, your fish pipe looks amazing and there are no long or complicated ingredients x
Thank you – it was my favourite meal of the week!
Wow how unbelievable simple is that! I’m like you in that I always associate fish pie with a bit more time and effort than I really have time for so it does’t get made all that often in my house. I’ll definitely be rethinking that view in future.
Thanks so much for joining #FoodYearLinkup I hope to see you there agin in future xx
Such a quick and easy version of fish pie! I particularly like the idea of using sliced potato on top – so much easier than mash! Now, why didn’t I think of that? I do love meals that can be put together in a few minutes and then popped in the oven. I currently have a chilli in the oven doing its stuff while I work / keep an eye on the kids. Feels so nice to know dinner is already sorted 🙂 Eb x
Fish Pie is one of the few meals all 5 of us will devour. We have it all the time! I’m seeing so much good stuff about Iceland – think I may have to pay them a visit. #BakeoftheWeek
I love fish pie, definitely going to try this recipe.