Cottage pie
Cottage pie

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, cottage pie. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Cottage pie is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Cottage pie is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

Being from Australia, cottage pie is a favourite when it comes to comfort food for the family. Overall, this recipe is pretty close to the orignial. Defeinitely omit … 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.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook cottage pie using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Cottage pie:
  1. Make ready Mince
  2. Get 1 onion
  3. Get 1 clove garlic
  4. Make ready 3 carrots, sliced
  5. Prepare 250 g mushrooms, sliced
  6. Get 1 can chopped tomatoes
  7. Prepare 2 cans water
  8. Get 500 g beef mince
  9. Prepare 2 tbsp tomato purée
  10. Prepare 1 beef stock cube
  11. Make ready Black pepper
  12. Take Italian herbs
  13. Take Mash
  14. Get 500 g Potatoes (or however many needed to cover top with mash)
  15. Prepare 25 g butter
  16. Take Milk

At its most basic, cottage pie is a meat pie (or casserole) that is topped with mashed potatoes rather than a pie crust. Traditionally, shepherd's pie is made with lamb (hence the name). However, as the dish gained wider popularity outside of its native English homeland (where using beef would make this a cottage pie), beef became a common substitute, especially in America where it's more widely available than ground lamb. Place in a medium saucepan and cover with cold water.

Steps to make Cottage pie:
  1. Fry the onions and garlic for 2min, add the carrots, put on the lid and sweet for 5min
  2. Once swerved, add the mushrooms and fry for a few minutes
  3. Add mince and brown
  4. Add stock cube, purée, tomatoes, water, herbs and pepper. Bring to the boil and simmer for 50min
  5. Pre heat oven to 200oC
  6. While the mince is simmering, peal the potatoes, cut into equal chunks and boil for 20mins
  7. When the potatoes have boiled, mash them with butter and milk.
  8. When both the mince and mash are ready but mince in the bottom of dish and put mash on top. Make pattern with fork on top in the mash. Put in oven for 20min

However, as the dish gained wider popularity outside of its native English homeland (where using beef would make this a cottage pie), beef became a common substitute, especially in America where it's more widely available than ground lamb. Place in a medium saucepan and cover with cold water. Set over high heat, cover and bring to a boil. 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.

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