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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. Cottage pie is a classic dish that comes from the UK and Ireland. What are the origins of cottage pie?
Cottage Pie is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Cottage Pie is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have cottage pie using 14 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:
- Get 6 potatoes
- Get 1 tablespoon margarine or butter
- Get 450 g beef mince
- Prepare 1 large onion
- Make ready 2 small carrots
- Make ready 2 sticks celery
- Take 1 teaspoon vegetable bullion powder (marigold)
- Get 1 beef stock cube (oxo)
- Make ready 2 tablespoons beef instant gravy granules (bistro)
- Make ready 4 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- Make ready Pinch salt
- Prepare Sprinkle mixed dried herbs (herbs de Provence)
- Make ready Black pepper
- Take Cheddar Cheese
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. For a shepherd's pie, use lamb. Cottage Pie and Shepherd's Pie are both savory meat pies with a crust or topping of mashed potatoes.
Steps 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.
For a shepherd's pie, use lamb. 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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