Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, cottage pie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Cottage Pie is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Cottage Pie is something that I have loved my whole life.
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 have to first prepare a few components. You can cook cottage pie using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:
- Take 1 large onion - diced
- Prepare 2 large carrots - diced
- Make ready 1 stick celery - diced
- Take 500 grams beef mince
- Take 1 tbsp tomato puree
- Make ready 1 tbsp worcestershire sauce
- Take 1 tsp dried mixed herbs
- Prepare 2 tbsp flour
- Make ready 500 ml beef stock
- Make ready 200 grams mushrooms - sliced
- Make ready 800 grams potatoes - diced
- Take Butter and milk to mash potatoes
I forgot to dot extra butter on top but it still came out crisp with adequately brown. 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:
- Brown onions, carrots and celery in a large pan.
- Add mince and continue cooking until brown.
- Add tomato puree, worcestershire sauce, mixed herbs and flour, stir together and add beef stock and mushrooms.
- Continue cooking with a lid on for 30 mins on a low heat.
- In a separate pan bring potatoes to the boil in salted water and cook until tender.
- Transfer meat mixture to a large pie dish.
- Mash potatoes with plenty of butter and a little milk.
- Spread mash on top of meat evenly and fluff with a fork.
- Place pie under a pre-heated grill until golden brown.
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 actually older than shepherd's pie. Potatoes were affordable ingredients that were often used by the peasants, who lived in cottages. A traditional cottage pie is made with ground beef and topped with mashed potatoes.
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