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Sri Lankan Seafood Curry Pie

Here's how you make Sri Lankan Seafood Curry Pie
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  • Servings: 4
  • Prep: 40m
  • Cook: 85m
  • The following recipe serves 4 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 650 grams potatoes, peeled and coarsely chopped
  • 60 grams butter, melted
  • 2 egg yolks
  • White pepper, to season
  • 2 sheets (220 grams) frozen pie pastry (shortcrust pastry, just thawed)
  • 1/4 cup oil (vegetable oil, 60ml)
  • 1 brown onion (coarsely chopped)
  • Fresh gingerroot (3cm piece, peeled and finely grated)
  • 3 garlic cloves, minced
  • 2 green chili peppers (long fresh green chillies, de-seeded and chopped)
  • 1 teaspoon yellow mustard seeds
  • 2 teaspoons ground coriander
  • 1 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1 teaspoon ground turmeric
  • 1/4 teaspoon finely ground black pepper
  • 1 can (400 gram) coconut milk
  • 1 lime, whole (juiced)
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 800 grams snapper fish (thick white boneless fish fillets, cut into 3cm pieces)
  • 360 grams large shrimp (green prawns, 12 large peeled and deveined)
  • 18 fresh curry leaves (18 leaves)
  • 2 teaspoons all-purpose flour (plain)
  • 1 tablespoon water (cold)
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Preheat oven to 200C/180C fan forced.

  • Step 2: Line a baking tray with baking paper.

  • Step 3: Cook potatoes in a medium sized saucepan for 15 minutes or until soft and drain.

  • Step 4: Use a ricer to press the potato back into the saucepan and add 40 grams of the butter and the egg yolks and season with salt and white pepper and then mash until smooth.

  • Step 5: Spoon potato mixture into a piping bag fitted with a large star nozzle and pipe rosettes of potato onto prepared tray and drizzle with the remaining butter and then bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden and set aside.

  • Step 6: Grease a 1.5 litre (6 cup shallow baking dish or pie dish.

  • Step 7: Join the pastry sheets and line the prepared dish with the pastry, trimming off excess and the prick the base of the pastry 5 times with a fork.

  • Step 8: Place the dish on a baking tray.

  • Step 9: Line the pastry with baking paper and fill with pastry weights or rice and bake for 15 minutes and then remove the paper and weights or rice and bake for a further 10 minutes or until crisp and set aside to cool.

  • Step 10: Heat 2 tablespoon oil in a large deep-sided frying pan over medium heat and add onion, ginger, garlic and chilli and cook for 4 minutes or until softened and then add mustard seeds and cook for a further 1 minutes or until the seeds begin to pop.

  • Step 11: Now add the ground coriander, cumin, turmeric and black pepper and cook for 2 minutes or until aromatic and then add the coconut milk and lime juice and stir until combined and mixture comes to the boil.

  • Step 12: Season with salt and then add the fish, prawns and half the curry leaves and cook for 5 minutes or until the fish is almost cooked.

  • Step 13: Combine the flour and water and stir until smooth and add to the curry and bring to a simmer and simmer, stirring until thickened and set aside to cool.

  • Step 14: Spoon the curry into the pastry shell and top with the potato rosettes and bake for 20 minutes or until the rosettes are golden and the pie is hot.

  • Step 15: Heat the remaining oil in a small frying pan over medium heat and add the remaining curry leaves and cook for 30 seconds or until crisp and transfer to a plate lined with paper towel and then sprinkle fried curry leaves onto the pie just before serving.


Tips & Variations

Don't forget the following tips and variations.
  • Piping bag
  • Large star nozzle

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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