Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, cottage pie. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook cottage pie using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:
- Prepare 1 Tablespoon Oil
- Get 500 g Beef Mince
- Get 1 Large Onion
- Get 1 Garlic Clove
- Get 2 Sprigs Fresh Thyme
- Make ready 2 Tablespoons Tomato Purée
- Prepare 2 Large Carrots (cut small)
- Get 500 ml Beef Stock
- Make ready 2 Tablespoons Worcestershire Sauce
- Take 1 Tablespoon Butter
- Prepare Salt and Pepper (to taste)
- Prepare 1 Tablespoon Flour
- Get 8 Medium Potatoes
- Take 50 ml Milk
Spoon the meat mixture into a gratin dish and cover with a thick, even layer of mashed potato. 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. At its most basic, cottage pie is a meat pie (or casserole) that is topped with mashed potatoes rather than a pie crust.
Steps to make Cottage Pie:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C
- Peel, wash and chop the potatoes into 4, add to saucepan with boiling water and a pinch of salt. Boil for 25 minutes on a medium/high heat
- Heat up pan until hot or as I like to use, my wok as it is great for quick cooking! Add the tablespoon of oil and break up the mince into the pan, cooking until the meat has browned
- Add the onion, garlic, carrots and thyme and fry until softened
- Add the tablespoon of flour (through a sieve) try not to get any big lumps in there! Stir on a low/medium heat covering the meat and veggies - (this will help thicken the stock when you add it)
- Add tomato purée, salt and pepper to taste and then add the beef stock stirring as you add. Leave to simmer for 25 minutes to let the vegetables soften and the sauce thicken
- Whilst your filling is simmering away strain your potatoes and mash them adding your butter and a good grind of pepper
- Pour the mince filling into a baking dish and top with the mash. Fluff the top with a fork and I like to rub a little butter in with the fork so when it goes into the oven it makes it nice and crisp!
- Cook for 10-15 minutes untill nice and golden brown and hot all the way through. Serve with some broccoli / asparagus 👍🏼
Now, cottage pie and shepherd's pie differ only in the type of ground meat they are made with. At its most basic, cottage pie is a meat pie (or casserole) that is topped with mashed potatoes rather than a pie crust. After this, it can vary greatly from region to region (or kitchen to kitchen). Sometimes you will see other vegetables like celery, mushrooms, or peas studded through the meat filling. Two-Potato Shepherd's Pie Shepherd's pie has another name, cottage pie, and mashed potatoes have another alternative - sweet potatoes.
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