Haddock fillet ideas for family dinner?

[Chocaholica]

I have some haddock fillets, which I intended to use to make Fay Ripley's creamy fish/tomato gratiny recipe (can't remember title of it) which we all like. But have no cream! So does anyone have any ideas for the fillets that might appeal to a three year old and a 9 month old? (the latter eats what we eat). Thanks in advance.

Make a layered bake with spinach, potatoes, cheese sauce. Put Haddock on top, bake in the oven. Good for the whole family. I do it with hake. You will need to par-boil the potatoes and wilt the spinach separately. Cheese sauce can be made with milk, butter and flour (and cheese) so no cream required.

You could also make goujons, my little ones love them! I dip in egg, flour & hoemmade breadcrumbs & gently fry in a frying pan, serve with sweet potato chips & peas.

I don't know the Fay Ripley recipe but you could still make something similar without the cream?

Make a chunky tomato sauce (onions/garlic/tinned tomatoes).

Peel/shop potatoes, in the oven with olive oil for ?30 mins until almost done. Pour 1/2 the tomato sauce over and mix about a bit.

Sit the haddock fillets on top, season, put the rest of the the sauce over them and cook at 180 for 10-12 mins depending how big they are.

You could also add a layer of wilted spinach before you put the fish on.

Fish pie - cook the haddock in milk, then take it out and use the milk to make a cheese sauce with. Shove in some peas or cooked brocolli and then dollop over the top some mash. More cheese on top and in the oven for 30min or under the grill to just brown the top depending on time.

Oh thanks everyone these all sound delicious!

I hadn't even thought of making a normal cheese sauce! The Fay recipe is cream with cheese, so essentially a cheese sauce. So I could easily do that. The layered bake with spinach sounds lovely (except no spinach in my veggie box) and ditto the tomatoey one. The Fay recipe is meant to be easy equivalent to fish pie - but I could make a fish pie, good idea.

As for the homemade goujons, they sound deicious too. Could I shove in oven rather than frying pan? Dinner time is a bit, ahem, frenetic here, easier not to be frying with two little ones around my knees...

In case anyone was interested in the recipe I intended to make, the Fay recipe is chopped up white or smoked fish into bite size pieces, put in baking dish with chopped peeled and deseeded tomatoes and a mix of single cream and creme fraiche and cheese, topped with more cheese, baked for half an hour. Seems to have good child appeal.

That sounds similar to one of jamie's ones - with haddock (I used smoked), creme fraiche, halved cherry toms and big chunks of avocado and lots of cheddar grated over. Baked. That is really yum too!

Mmmmm, the Jamie one sounds yummy too. I love avocado. And creme fraiche.