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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.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook mini cottage pies with potato nests using 15 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Mini Cottage Pies With Potato Nests:
- Make ready 5 jacket potatoes
- Prepare 500 g lean beef mince
- Prepare 2 onions
- Make ready 2 tbsp gram (chickpea) flour
- Take 1 finely diced carrot
- Get 1 finely diced celery stick
- Prepare 2 tbsp tomato puree
- Make ready 2 bay leaves
- Get 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- Prepare 1 tsp mixed herbs
- Get 1/2 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 tin tomatoes
- Make ready 1 tbsp olive oil
- Get 250 mls hot water
- Get 30 g grated cheddar cheese
Mini Cottage Pies is a classic main meal dish, perfect for weeknight dinners. A delicious beef and vegetable base with a layer of fluffy mashed potatoes. Add minced beef and brown, ensure you break the meat up so that it's not lumpy. Once the meat is browned, add onion and cook until transparent.
Steps to make Mini Cottage Pies With Potato Nests:
- Peel and quarter the jacket potatoes and boil until tender. Drain and allow to cool.
- In a large saucepan, fry the onions, celery, carrot and garlic gently in the olive oil for 10 minutes.
- 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.
- Add the vegetables back into the saucepan with the mince. Sprinkle the veg and mince with the gram flour and stir well.
- 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.
- Coarsely grate all of the boiled potatoes.
- 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.
- Bake the nests in the oven at 200°C for 20-25 minutes until starting to turn golden brown.
- Spoon the cottage pie filling into each nest and top with grated cheese.
- Bake in the oven at 200°C for a further 20-25 minutes until the cheese is bubbling and starting to brown.
- Serve with salad or steamed vegetables.
Add minced beef and brown, ensure you break the meat up so that it's not lumpy. Once the meat is browned, add onion and cook until transparent. Add stock, Tomato Ketchup, Worcestershire and seasoning. Now top with another heaped tablespoon of mashed potato and use your fingers to press it gently into place. Serve these lovely little cottage pies immediately for a terrifically economic and tasty meal.
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