Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, cottage pie. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have cottage pie using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:
- Prepare For the mash
- Prepare 2.5 Kg Maris Piper potatoes
- Take 150 ml double cream
- Get 300 ml milk
- Get 3-4 knobs butter
- Get Pinch salt
- Prepare Pinch pepper
- Prepare Pinch nutmeg
- Prepare For the filling
- Get 750 g beef mince
- Take 50 g peas
- Take 3 tbsp olive oil
- Get 2 large knobs of salted butter
- Take 1 tbsp paprika
- Make ready Sprinkle of chilli powder
- Get For the topping
- Prepare 400 g medium cheddar cheese, grated
- Make ready To serve
- Prepare Savoy cabbage
- Make ready 600 ml gravy
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. 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. Cottage pie is a delicious variation of the classic shepherd's pie, and it's fairly simple to make at home!
Instructions to make Cottage Pie:
- Peel the potatoes and put them in a saucepan with water and a pinch of salt, and boil. This should take about 30-40 minutes.
- While the potatoes are cooking, add the oil and butter to a saucepan on a medium/high heat, and once the oil starts sizzling - add the mince and break it all apart so all the meat in separated. Fry until browned and the liquid fat has been cooked off. Add the peas.
- To check the potatoes are cooked, try and pick one up by stabbing it with a knife. If it falls off the knife with ease, the potatoes are done. Drain and mash, gradually adding milk, butter and cream where necessary. Add the salt, pepper and nutmeg… mash until there are no lumps.
- In a large oven dish, spread the mince filling across the bottom, until level. Repeat with the mash. Top with the cheese and bake in a preheated oven (150°C) until the cheese is golden brown. Serve immediately with gravy and savoy cabbage.
Use beef, rather than lamb, and fill your pie with sautéed onions, carrots, and celery. Simple slow cooker cottage pie recipe that your family will love, a comforting recipe for autumn and winter in the crockpot. Traditional cottage pie with a rich meaty sauce, topped with creamy mashed potato, crisped up to golden perfection. Check out my tip for ensuring also get a jug of delicious gravy to pour on top. Cottage pie is actually older than shepherd's pie.
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