Potato Topped Fish pie

This is such an easy dish and goes down a storm with children especially if you make the pies in individual pie dishes. If your children don't have a massive appetite then use ramekin dishes.

This is a great dish to try for fussy eaters and features in our Top Foods for Fussy Eaters photo gallery.  Find more great recipes and ideas here.

• cod, haddock or other fish steaks/fillet
• cheese sauce
• spinach, leeks or broccoli
• potatoes
• cheese

Bake cod or haddock steaks in a covered oven proof dish - this takes about 25 mins at 180 C/Gas 4.

Meanwhile make some cheese sauce and lightly cook some spinach, leeks or broccoli.

Boil some potatoes and once cooked drain and slice into discs.

Flake the cooked fish and place in a pie dish, picking out any bones as you come across them. Spoon the vegetables on top of the fish and pour over the cheese sauce.

Place the potato discs over the mixture and grate some cheese on the top.

Place back in the oven for about 15 mins or until the cheese has melted and gone a little crispy.

Sent in by Cathy from Harrow

Variations

Salmon and Spinach Pie

Bake some salmon (as recipe above) and flake the cooked fish.
Cover in spinach which has been briefly wilted and cover that in white sauce (if I have it I add chives and cheese - both or which ever I have),
Then cover in mash (sometimes I add an egg yolk to the mash).
It freezes well too.

Sent in by Abby

Fish and Leek Pie

• 2 pieces of white fish - haddock or cod
• 2 leeks chopped or diced (depending on how big you like the pieces!)
• 1 tin of mushroom condensed soup
• 200ml milk
• 2 potatoes boiled and mashed
• Grated cheese

Poach the fish in some milk and butter for about 10 mins. Flake and place it on the bottom of you dish.
Cook the leeks in some butter for about 15 mins then put on top of the fish in the dish.
Mix the soup with about 200mls of milk and spread over the fish and leek mix.
Spread the mashed potato over the top and then sprinkle with cheese
Put in the oven for about 20 mins until cheese is melted.

I made this recipe from when my son was about 8 months old - he loves it, and it is an excellent way to introduce your child to fish.