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Braised fish and fennel pie with blue cheese potato crust  Rate Recipe
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Preparation time: 25 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Baking time: 10 minutes @ 220c

2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
2 tbsp butter
1 leek chopped (no green)
1- garlic clove crushed
2 fennel bulbs cut in half then finely sliced
2 stalks celery chopped (no green)
½ cup chopped Italian parsley
¼ cup chopped dill or thyme
1/3-cup plain flour
500ml fish or chicken stock
500gm large diced fresh fish (see note)
1 tub sour cream
Salt & pepper and Tabasco to taste

Blue cheese potato crust
500gm Kestrel potato peeled, diced then pressured cooked for 15 minutes
3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
100ml milk
100gm Blue cheese
Using a large 5L pot lightly brown off leek and garlic until fragrant.  Stir in fennel, celery and cook them out until tender.  Flavor with herbs then stir in flour to make a roux or thickening agent.  Cook this mixture over a low heat for 3 minutes and the smell of raw flour has gone.  Pour and stir in stock to make the base sauce, add fish pieces then cover and simmer for 5 minutes. Stir in sour cream and season to taste.  Pour mixture into a shallow oven proof baking dish then pipe or spread blue cheese potato mash then bake until golden brown and a crust forms. 

Blue cheese potato crust Method
Crush the steaming potato with a masher then switch to a wooden spoon to finish off mash. While mashing, add olive oil, milk and cheese stir until smooth.

Festival Seafood will recommend the right fish to use for this dish

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