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Mini Cottage Pies With Potato Nests step by step. Peel and quarter the jacket potatoes and boil until tender. Tip the vegetables out into a bowl, set this to one side and then brown the mince in the saucepan for. Great recipe for Mini Cottage Pies With Potato Nests.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have mini cottage pies with potato nests using 15 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Mini Cottage Pies With Potato Nests:

1. Make ready 5 jacket potatoes
2. Get 500 g lean beef mince
3. Prepare 2 onions
4. Prepare 2 tbsp gram (chickpea) flour
5. Prepare 1 finely diced carrot
6. Take 1 finely diced celery stick
7. Prepare 2 tbsp tomato puree
8. Make ready 2 bay leaves
9. Prepare 2 cloves garlic, crushed
10. Prepare 1 tsp mixed herbs
11. Take ¹⁄₂ tsp salt
12. Prepare 1 tin tomatoes
13. Make ready 1 tbsp olive oil
14. Prepare 250 mls hot water
15. Make ready 30 g grated cheddar cheese

A delicious beef and vegetable base with a layer of fluffy mashed potatoes. Now you can serve mini cottage pies as snacks! They'll be perfect for a friends and family gathering, kids' parties, or just as a little snack. Place pre-shaped pie crusts into mini pie maker and press down with tool.

Steps to make Mini Cottage Pies With Potato Nests:

1. Peel and quarter the jacket potatoes and boil until tender. Drain and allow to cool.
2. In a large saucepan, fry the onions, celery, carrot and garlic gently in the olive oil for 10 minutes.
3. Tip the vegetables out into a bowl, set this to one side and then brown the mince in the saucepan for about 5 minutes. Pour off any water that comes out of the mince.
4. Add the vegetables back into the saucepan with the mince. Sprinkle the veg and mince with the gram flour and stir well.
5. Add the tomato puree, mixed herbs, hot water, salt, tomatoes and bay leaves into the saucepan and leave to simmer, with the lid off, for 40 minutes.
6. Coarsely grate all of the boiled potatoes.
7. Lightly oil 12 cupcake tins with olive oil. Spoon the grated potatoes into the wells. Use the spoon to make little nests, ensuring the bases aren’t too thin.
8. Bake the nests in the oven at 200°C for 20-25 minutes until starting to turn golden brown.
9. Spoon the cottage pie filling into each nest and top with grated cheese.
10. Bake in the oven at 200°C for a further 20-25 minutes until the cheese is bubbling and starting to brown.
11. Serve with salad or steamed vegetables.

They'll be perfect for a friends and family gathering, kids' parties, or just as a little snack. Place pre-shaped pie crusts into mini pie maker and press down with tool. Fill with ground beef mixture, and top with prepared mashed potatoes, piping on with a snipped ziplock baggie. Turn on pie maker and close lid. Add minced beef and brown, ensure you break the meat up so that it's not lumpy.

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