Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, cottage pie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
For this savory pie, ground beef, onions, veggies, herbs and spices marry perfectly: Everything is sauteed together and then combined with broth and tomato paste, and simmered until ready to pour into a prepared pie crust. The hearty filling is then topped with fluffy mashed potatoes, sprinkled with Cheddar cheese, and baked. 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 one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Cottage Pie is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook cottage pie using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:
- Get 400 g minced beef
- Take 1 onion
- Take 1/2 celery
- Make ready 200 ml soup stock
- Make ready 1 Tbsp worcestershire sauce
- Make ready Salt and pepper
- Take 4 potatoes
- Take 100 ml milk
- Take 50 g butter or margarine
- Make ready salt and pepper
I use a bigger onion instead. I forgot to dot extra butter on top but it still came out crisp with adequately brown. There are many variations of the recipe, but the defining ingredients include minced or ground beef with onions (and sometimes other vegetables) in. This is a meat and carb heavy dish, so it goes really well with fresh side salads like a Rocket Salad with Balsamic Dressing, or a Garden Salad with French or Italian Dressing.
Instructions to make Cottage Pie:
- Preheat the oven at 180°C/350°F. Chop the onion and celery into small pieces. Peel the potatoes and cut into small pieces to boil until they become soft.
- To make the mash potatoes, first put the milk, butter or margarine, salt and pepper into a small pot and mix well until the butter has melted into a sauce. Then add the boiled potatoes and mash until the texture is smooth and creamy.
- Fry and brown the minced meat in a frying pan, add the chopped vegetables and fry for a min or two on a medium heat. Then add the soup stock, Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper and simmer for 3 min.
- Put the cooked minced meat into a oven proof dish and spread the mash potatoes over the mince as evenly as possible. Finally, bake in the oven for 30 min or until the mash potato has browned. Enjoy this dish piping hot!
I recently served it with this Carrot Salad with a Honey Dijon Dressing which was a hit!. For a cosy meal on a cold winter night, try it with a side of Glazed Roasted Carrots and Sautéed. 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. A traditional cottage pie is made with ground beef and topped with mashed potatoes.
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