Cottage pie
Cottage pie

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way 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.

Cottage pie is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Cottage pie is something which 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 begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook cottage pie using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Cottage pie:
  1. Make ready Mince
  2. Get 1 onion
  3. Get 1 clove garlic
  4. Get 3 carrots, sliced
  5. Take 250 g mushrooms, sliced
  6. Get 1 can chopped tomatoes
  7. Get 2 cans water
  8. Take 500 g beef mince
  9. Prepare 2 tbsp tomato purée
  10. Prepare 1 beef stock cube
  11. Take Black pepper
  12. Take Italian herbs
  13. Get Mash
  14. Take 500 g Potatoes (or however many needed to cover top with mash)
  15. Take 25 g butter
  16. Prepare Milk

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.

Instructions to make Cottage pie:
  1. Fry the onions and garlic for 2min, add the carrots, put on the lid and sweet for 5min
  2. Once swerved, add the mushrooms and fry for a few minutes
  3. Add mince and brown
  4. Add stock cube, purée, tomatoes, water, herbs and pepper. Bring to the boil and simmer for 50min
  5. Pre heat oven to 200oC
  6. While the mince is simmering, peal the potatoes, cut into equal chunks and boil for 20mins
  7. When the potatoes have boiled, mash them with butter and milk.
  8. When both the mince and mash are ready but mince in the bottom of dish and put mash on top. Make pattern with fork on top in the mash. Put in oven for 20min

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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