Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, cottage pie. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Classic, epic Cottage Pie made properly, with a luscious filling. Cottage Pie - comfort food central! This English classic has a deeply savoury beef mince filling smothered in gravy topped with creamy.
Cottage Pie is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Cottage Pie is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have cottage pie using 14 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:
- Prepare 6 potatoes
- Take 1 tablespoon margarine or butter
- Make ready 450 g beef mince
- Make ready 1 large onion
- Get 2 small carrots
- Make ready 2 sticks celery
- Take 1 teaspoon vegetable bullion powder (marigold)
- Prepare 1 beef stock cube (oxo)
- Prepare 2 tablespoons beef instant gravy granules (bistro)
- Make ready 4 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- Get Pinch salt
- Take Sprinkle mixed dried herbs (herbs de Provence)
- Take Black pepper
- Make ready Cheddar Cheese
Proper English Cottage Pie is a delicious, very traditional mince pie (beef) topped with mashed potato. Being from Australia, cottage pie is a favourite when it comes to comfort food for the family. The difference between Shepherd's Pie and Cottage Pie is the meat. Cottage Pie uses ground beef I called this recipe Shepherd's Pie.
Instructions 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.
But, I wrote the recipe so that you could use ground beef or. This classic cottage pie recipe is easy to make and would make the perfect family meal packed with minced beef, sweet tomatoes and topped with Watch how to make Quick and easy cottage pie. This DELICIOUS Cottage Pie is made with a mixture of ground beef, ground sausage, and mixed vegetables in a delicious gravy and baked under a layer of fluffy mashed potatoes. Cottage pie is a delicious variation of the classic shepherd's pie, and it's fairly simple to make at home! Use beef, rather than lamb, and fill your pie with sautéed onions, carrots, and celery.
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