Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, cottage pie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little 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. It's a good remedy for the winter chills.—Shannon Copley, Upper Arlington, Ohio Classic Cottage Pie Recipe photo by Taste of Home 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.
Cottage Pie is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Cottage Pie is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook cottage pie using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:
- Make ready 500 g minced meat
- Get 1 chopped onion
- Make ready 1 peeled chopped carrot
- Prepare 1 beef stock cube
- Prepare Seasoning
- Make ready 3 medium sized potatoes
- Prepare Cheese
- Take Breadcrumbs
A pie dish would be lined at the sides and bottom with mashed potato. 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 those rare foods that is truly perfect to make in advance.
Steps to make Cottage Pie:
- Set the oven to 180°C/450°F
- Heat the oil in a pan, add the onion and cook over a medium heat for 5 minutes. Add the carrot and cover the pan, cook a further 5 minutes.
- Remove the vegetables from the pan. Heat up the pan again to the same heat, add the meat and cook until lightly browned underneath then turn it in the pan and cook for another few minutes.
- Sprinkle in the flour, stir well to coat the meat, and brown then add the puree, sauce, herbs and stock. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 10-15 minutes
- Stir in the stock cube then sprinkle in the seasoning, bring to the boil then reduce the heat and simmer for about 10 to 15 minutes
- Spoon the mixture into the pie dish, smooth the surface then carefully put spoonfuls of mash round the edge and then the middle
- Bake the shepherd's pie for 30–40 minutes until the top is golden brown
Spoon the meat mixture into a gratin dish and cover with a thick, even layer of mashed potato. Cottage Pie is one of those rare foods that is truly perfect to make in advance. 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. Two-Potato Shepherd's Pie Shepherd's pie has another name, cottage pie, and mashed potatoes have another alternative - sweet potatoes.
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