Cottage pie
Cottage pie

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, cottage pie. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Cottage pie is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Cottage pie is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

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. Not sure why you would want to add cinnamon to a traditional cottage pie.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have cottage pie using 21 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Cottage pie:
  1. Get 750 g minced beef
  2. Get 2 thyme springs
  3. Take 1 onion
  4. Take 1 clove garlic
  5. Get 2 celery sticks
  6. Make ready 2 carrots
  7. Make ready 1 1/2 tbsp flour
  8. Prepare 1 tbsp tomato puree
  9. Take 2 tbsp Worcester sauce
  10. Take 1-2 bay leaves
  11. Take 350-450 ml broth
  12. Take 1/2 glass red wine (optional)
  13. Take 1 handful frozen peas
  14. Get Salt, pepper, paprika, chilli, garlic
  15. Take For the mash
  16. Take 900 g potatoes
  17. Take 4 carrots
  18. Take 1 splash milk
  19. Take 1 handful cheddar
  20. Take Butter
  21. Make ready Salt, pepper, nutmeg

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. 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.

Steps to make Cottage pie:
  1. Brown the mince. Cut all the vegetables in little dices and add to the meat. Fry on a medium heat for 20min. Then add the seasonings and fry a bit longer.
  2. Add the tomato puree and fry for a minute over a high heat. Then sprinkle in the flour and mix well. If you use the wine pour in now, and let it reduce a bit. Then add the broth, bay leave and thyme and simmer uncovered for 45min. Add the frozen peas when it done.
  3. Boil the potatoes and carrots and make a nice creamy mash. Add the cheese to the mash as well. Add the mince in an ovenproof dish. Add the mash on top.
  4. Make a pattern in the mash with a fork. Put it in the oven 220 degrees until golden. Enjoy <3

Cottage pie is actually older than shepherd's pie. Potatoes were affordable ingredients that were often used by the peasants, who lived in cottages. 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. Cottage pie is a cheap and nutritious option for a family Sunday dinner.

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