Gwent Cottage Pie
Gwent Cottage Pie

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Gwent Cottage Pie A favourite from back home in Wales. If you don't like leeks, you could replace them with onions or try my broccoli in cheese sauce as the middle layer. Why is it called cottage pie?

Gwent Cottage Pie is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Gwent Cottage Pie is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have gwent cottage pie using 15 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Gwent Cottage Pie:
  1. Take meat sauce
  2. Prepare 80 grams butter
  3. Make ready 1 large onion sliced
  4. Prepare 350 grams minced beef
  5. Take 2 tbsp plain flour
  6. Prepare 400 ml hot beef stock - home-made, from a cube, from a jar, however you want your beef stock
  7. Make ready leeks in cheese sauce
  8. Prepare 3 medium leeks
  9. Prepare 80 grams butter
  10. Prepare 1 tbsp heaped, of plain flour
  11. Take 100 ml milk
  12. Take 1 tsp mustard powder
  13. Get 150 grams grated cheese
  14. Prepare Seasoning
  15. Prepare 1 kg mashed potato - I use a floury potato with lots of butter and a dash of milk

Add stock, peas, carrots, tomato paste, parsley, salt, and pepper. Drain potatoes; mash with milk and butter. Spread over meat mixture; sprinkle with remaining cheese. Place pie plate on a foil-lined baking sheet (plate will be full).

Instructions to make Gwent Cottage Pie:
  1. Add the minced beef to a preheated saucepan and fry quickly releasing the fat (if you use lean beef you'll have to use oil) add thinly sliced onion and lower the heat allowing onions to saute - you can use more meat if you want, but I buy 450g and steal 100g of it to make my Cornish pasties ;)
  2. When onions have become clear add the butter and melt
  3. Sprinkle the flour over the top of the neat and onion mixture and stir in to absorb the butter. Cook for 1 minute whilst stirring.
  4. Add the beef stock a little at a time stirring well in between to avoid any lumps.
  5. Put the meat layer into your chosen baking dish - I use a rectangular 12x8, 2 inch deep glass dish but you could choose round, smaller, deeper
  6. Now make the leek layer (leaving meat to cool helps keep the layers separate during cooking)
  7. Put butter into a saute pan with a lid. Add the sliced leeks and sweat with the lid on over a low heat
  8. When the leeks are soft, sprinkle over the flour and stir in for 1 minute
  9. Add the milk and stir in well now add the mustard powder and grated cheese
  10. If you don't have mustard powder you can use yellow English mustard. Add any seasoning at this point that you feel necessary - we all have different palates
  11. When leeks cooled dollop onto the meat sauce, then carefully, a forkfull at a time, cover it in mashed potato. I start from the centre so if I don't have enough mashed potato i just leave a border around the outside - it's ok, it doesn't have to be perfect
  12. So mashed potato - i may make fresh for this meal, but often I use leftover, so up to you but I would say that you need it to be fairly stiff.
  13. You can keep in the fridge up to 48 hours before baking, the longer the better as it firms up the layers
  14. Bake at 180ºC gas 4 for 35 - 40 minutes until the meat starts bubbling through and it starts to form a sticky crust

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. Cottage pie is actually older than shepherd's pie. Potatoes were affordable ingredients that were often used by the peasants, who lived in cottages.

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