Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, cottage pie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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. Boil the potatoes until soft and mash them with the milk until smooth and creamy. Spoon the meat mixture into a gratin dish and cover with a thick, even layer of mashed potato.
Cottage pie is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Cottage pie is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have cottage pie using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Cottage pie:
- Prepare 450 g beef mince
- Get 2 sticks celery
- Prepare 2 medium carrots
- Prepare 1 red onion
- Take 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- Get 3 tsp bisto beef gravy granules
- Make ready 1 tablespoons tomato puree
- Make ready 5 medium sized Maris Piper potatoes
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.
Steps to make Cottage pie:
- Peel and chop the potatoes and put onto boil. These take approx 18mins from reaching the boil. Drain and mash these with a splash of milk and a knob of real butter. Go for a wetter mash as you need to be able to spread it on top of the meat mix later.
- Whilst the potato cooks, dice up the onion, celery and carrots and in a separate pan saute these in the vegetable oil.
- Once the vegetables have softened a little add the tomato puree. Then add the minced beef to brown. Keep stirring so that any lumps are broken up.
- When the meat is browned add in the gravy granules and a little water (about 1/4 pint) to make the mixture wet and gravy coated but not swimming. Spoon this into a n ovenproof dish.
- Add the mash to the dish. Spread it out to cover all the meat mixture. You can leave the dish at this point if you need to prepare ahead of mealtime.
- When ready to get the meal together put the dish into a 200° oven for approx 30 mins. If you like cheese add some grated cheddar to top the dish for the last 15 mins
- Serve with boiled or steamed vegetables on the side with beef gravy.
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. Now, cottage pie and shepherd's pie differ only in the type of ground meat they are made with. At its most basic, cottage pie is a meat pie (or casserole) that is topped with mashed potatoes rather than a pie crust. After this, it can vary greatly from region to region (or kitchen to kitchen).
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