Seafood pie with mashed potato

Ingredients:
Potatoes 750 g, peeled and quartered
Butter or margarine 3 Tbsp
Warm milk 125 ml
Yellow chives 50 g, finely chopped
Freshly ground black pepper and salt to taste

Filling:
Sea bream or mackeral 500 g, deboned and cubed
Prawns 200 g, shelled
Squid 200 g, cut into thin rings
Milk 750 ml
Butter 4 Tbsp, softened
Plain (all-purpose) flour 2 Tbsp
Chopped parsley 2 Tbsp
Lemon juice 11/2 Tbsp
Freshly ground black pepper and salt to taste


Method:
1. Boil potatoes until soft and peel the skin. Mash the peeled hot potatoes with the butter, milk, chives, salt and pepper until smooth and lump free.

2. Place seafood in a pan and pour in the milk. Let it simmer until the fish is cooked.

3. Drain and keep the seafood aside. Strain the milk.

4. Heat butter in a pan and add flour, stirring for 2–3 minutes. Remove pan from heat and slowly add the strained milk, stirring constantly until it is lump free.

5. Return to the heat and let the mixture thicken. Add the chopped parsley, lemon juice and salt and pepper.

6. Place seafood in a pie dish. Pour the thickened sauce and mix gently to combine well.

7. Spoon the mashed potato mixture over and rough up the surface with a fork.

8. Bake in a preheated oven of 200˚C for 25 minutes or until the potato topping turns golden brown and the whole thing is bubbling and hot.