Smoked Haddock, Leek + Butter Bean Pie
Smoked Haddock, Leek + Butter Bean Pie
Rated 4.3 stars by 24 users
Servings
4-6
This is a REAL showstopper, that's actually very easy. Make 2-3 days ahead or you could even freeze this beauty and cook for an extra 30 minutes when the time comes to show off. Serve with brocolli, cavolo nero or cabbage dressed with lemon.
Ingredients
- 3 medium-large leeks, washed and sliced into 1-2cm rounds
- 35g unsalted butter
- 300ml double cream
- 1 bay leaf
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100g spinach
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1 jar of Queen Butter Beans, bean stock reserved
- 375g undyed smoked haddock fillets, skinned, cut into slices about 4cm wide
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75g cheddar cheese, grated
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2 large handfuls of breadcrumbs
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Steamed greens such as cabbage or tenderstem broccoli
To serve
Directions
Heat the oven to 200°C/fan oven 180°C/mark 6. In a heavy-based saucepan frying pan, melt the butter and add the leeks with a pinch of salt. Add a spash of water and then cover, sweating the leeks until they are soft and melting, about 20 mins. Check intermittently so that the leeks aren’t burning at the base of the pan.
Add the cream, bay leaf, beans and spinach to the leeks and stir to combine. Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer. Then, add the smoked haddock and stir into the sauce. Simmer away for 10-12 minutes. If it’s looking too thick, add the reserved bean stock. Season generously with black pepper, but go easy on the salt as the fish and beans already are salted.
Pour the mixture into a large, shallow oven-proof dish. Cover the mixture with the cheese and breadcrumbs.
Bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes, until the gratin is tender and the fish is just flaking, and the top if golden. Serve immediately with greens such as broccoli or cabbage.
Jane Burden
Just wanted to say I love your beans!! All my life I’ve tried to like beans (and that’s been a long time as am 51 now!!) Have only ever eaten the tinned variety and always only been at best indifferent to them. But these I actually love!! So much flavour!! I made the smoked haddock, leek and bean pie – couldn’t find your butter beans in my local shop so bought the jar of white beans and even cold from the jar they are delicious!! Am a convert!! Thank you!!