Mermaid Bake
A creamy fish bake to make for your party the next time they board a rickety ship and sail the high seas!
Servings 4 sailors
Cost 25 gold
Equipment
- Casserole dish
Ingredients
Casserole
- 4 cups potatoes thinly sliced
- 1 lb fish of choice
- 1 ½ cups cheese of choice
- 2 tbsp panko bread crumbs
Veggie Mix
- 1 clove garlic chopped
- 2 tbsp butter
- 8 cups spinach fresh, packed, most of stems chopped off
- 2 cups mushrooms chopped
- 1 red onion chopped
Cream Sauce
- 3 tbsp butter
- 3 tbsp flour
- 2 cups whole milk
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 1 tbsp Old Bay seasoning optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F
- Set your cooking fire (or stove) to medium-high and in a large skillet melt the butter for the veggies. Add in the garlic and cook for 1 minute
- Pour in the onions and mushrooms. Cook for 3 minutes
- Pour in the spinach and cook until wilted. You may have to work in batches to fit it in the skillet. Set veggies aside
- In a saucepan, melt the butter for the cream sauce. Add the flour and stir for 1 minute. Add the nutmeg and Old Bay and stir for 1 minute.
- Add the milk and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat of your cooking fire to low and let simmer for 2 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste
- Spray casserole dish with non-stick spray. Layer the potatoes, veggies, sauce, and fish in the casserole dish. Layers should be just enough to entirely cover the width of the layer but not stack.
- Top with cheese and panko.
- Bake for 1 hour and 30 minutes. If your dish is very wide and flat as opposed to taller, cook for 1 hour and 15 minutes instead. Let stand for 10 minutes and serve to your hungry party. Now get back to your adventure!
Notes
This recipe is an interesting one as it works well with almost any meat. I'm definitely interested in trying this again with chicken and some variance on the spices. The mushrooms and onions add a wonderful amount of savory to the veggies that compliments the creaminess well.
For the fish we used Yellowtail and cut it using a diagonal sashimi-style cut but this recipe would work with probably any fish you can catch on your adventures.
Our casserole dish is rather tall and narrow and after 1 hour and 15 minutes of cooking the potatoes were still a bit raw so we put it in for another 15 and it was perfect. We also had some juices overflow and crisp on the bottom of the oven so if you layer your dish near the top then consider putting a pan underneath.