Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, cottage pie. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Cottage Pie is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Cottage Pie is something that I have loved my entire life.
Proper English Cottage Pie is a delicious, very traditional mince pie (beef) topped with mashed potato. Cottage pie is a combination of ground lamb or beef with mashed potatoes, topped with a bubbling layer of cheese is the perfect comfort food. A traditional cottage pie is made with ground beef and topped with mashed potatoes. We used potato slices, which saves time and looks good, too.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have cottage pie using 14 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:
- Prepare 6 potatoes
- Get 1 tablespoon margarine or butter
- Take 450 g beef mince
- Make ready 1 large onion
- Make ready 2 small carrots
- Prepare 2 sticks celery
- Get 1 teaspoon vegetable bullion powder (marigold)
- Make ready 1 beef stock cube (oxo)
- Make ready 2 tablespoons beef instant gravy granules (bistro)
- Get 4 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- Take Pinch salt
- Take Sprinkle mixed dried herbs (herbs de Provence)
- Get Black pepper
- Make ready Cheddar Cheese
Whatever you call it, there's enough in the recipe to bake one casserole and freeze the other for up to three months. Did we mention Cumberland pie is a cousin, but with bread crumbs on top? Cottage Pie is one of those rare foods that is truly perfect to make in advance. Cottage Pie and Shepherd's Pie are both savory meat pies with a crust or topping of mashed potatoes.
Instructions to make Cottage Pie:
- Dice the onions and slice the carrots thinly. Fry on a medium heat with a little oil season with mixed dried herbs, salt and pepper.
- Thinly slice the celery sticks and add to the frying pan.
- Once the onion starts to soften after about 10 minutes add the minced beef. Break it up into smaller chunks with a fork or spatula.
- While the beef is browning off peel the spuds and chop them into small chunks. Cover with water and boil on high.
- To prepare the liquor put the kettle on to boil. add the vegetable bullion beef stock cube, gravy granules and Worcestershire sauce to a measuring jug.
- Pour on boiling water and make up to a pint.
- Pour as much of the liquor into the meat as will fit, simmer to reduce… top up as necessary.
- Once the potatoes are nice and soft (20-25 mins) drain, add the margarine or butter and mash thoroughly.
- Pour the meat and vegetables into an oven proof dish. Cover with mash potatoes using a fork, try to keep it really fluffy and make lots of peeks so the top gets crispy.
- Cook in the oven for 20 minutes at 200 Degrees C
- Cover with grated cheddar and return to the oven for 10 mins
- It’s done… plate up and enjoy.
Cottage Pie is one of those rare foods that is truly perfect to make in advance. Cottage Pie and Shepherd's Pie are both savory meat pies with a crust or topping of mashed potatoes. Traditionally, Shepherd's Pie is made with ground or minced lamb, while a Cottage Pie is made with ground or minced beef. We prefer beef in this house, so the Cottage Pie has always been our preference! Why is Cottage Pie called "Cottage Pie?" Cottage pie is a meat pie that is topped with mashed potatoes and baked in the oven.
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