Nigerian Fish Pie | Easy Homemade Basa Fillet Pie Recipe

This recipe focuses on how to make Nigerian fish pie with healthy-less fat fish option, Basa fillet.

If you are looking for an easy homemade fish pie recipe, all you need to do is read this post to the end. Also, for other pie recipes, you may like this one on how to make chicken pie with less-fat mince chicken.

Fish pie is a baked Nigerian street food popularly sold at schools, in market places and on the streets.

This satisfying snack is not just a street food, it is perfect for parties, lunch, even dinner and it can be paired with a wide variety of drinks such as tea, hot chocolate, warm milk or any drink of choice.

Moving forward, the ingredients needed for the pie filling as well as the dough are listed below.

Pie filling Ingredients

600g basa fillet
1/3 cup vegetable oil
2 onions
3 potatoes
4-5 carrots
1 tbsp thyme
1 tbsp curry
11/2 tsp salt
11/2 stock cubes
1/2 cup bell pepper & sweet red pepper
1 tbsp chopped chilli pepper
11/2 cup water
1/3 cup all purpose flour

Pie dough ingredients

4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
11/2tbsp sugar
150g butter
1/3 cup water
2 eggs

How to make fish pie with Basa fillet

Peel off the skin of potato and clean in water
Cut them into small sizes and set aside
Repeat the process with the onions and carrot but dice them separately.
Heat up 1/3 cup vegetable oil and fry diced onions for 2-3minutes till it becomes fragrant.
Add thyme, curry, seasoning cubes and salt
Mix well and fry on low heat for 2 minutes
Add potatoes, pepper and 1 1/2 cup water.
Stir well to combine and allow to cook until potatoes are very soft.
After this, put Basa fillet in the pot also add the diced carrot too
If necessary, add little water and cook for 15-20 minutes on low heat till the fish is cooked.
Mash together to combine well
Add 1/3 cup of all-purpose flour, mix well to combine
Cook for 5 minutes more on low heat.
Allow the filling cool completely.
Prepare the dough while waiting for the filling to cool down.

If you prefer to use an oily fish like mackerel, here is How To Make Nigerian Fish Pie Filling with mackerel.

To save time, I would suggest using a mixer and without wasting much of your time, let’s get started.

In a mixer bowl add 4 cups flour, baking powder, butter, sugar and salt.
Mix till it looks like breadcrumbs

Add 2 egg and 1/4 cup water and mix again
Transfer to a clean, flat work surface
Knead lightly till it comes together but don’t overwork it.
Wrap nicely and allow to rest – it could be kept in a cool place like your fridge.
After 20-30 minutes, check the pie filling to be sure that it has cooled down completely.
Turn on the oven to 180 degrees to preheat it
To make this easy, share the dough into small balls
Lightly dust the work surface with flour and roll out all the dough balls.
Sprinkle some flour on your pie mould, place the rolled out dough on it.
Scoop some filling on to it.
Brush the sides of the dough with raw egg and close the pie mould.
Then remove the excess dough from the sides of the closed pie mould
Transfer into an oven tray lined with baking paper.
Repeat the process till it is all moulded.
Brush raw egg over the pastry.
Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes on 180 degrees

Easy and nice fish pie is ready to be enjoyed.