How to Prepare Any-night-of-the-week Cottage Pie

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Cottage Pie. Proper English Cottage Pie is a delicious, very traditional mince pie (beef) topped with mashed potato. Cottage pie is a combination of ground lamb or beef with mashed potatoes, topped with a bubbling layer of cheese is the perfect comfort food. Boil the potatoes until soft and mash them with the milk until smooth and creamy.

Cottage Pie We used potato slices, which saves time and looks good, too. For a shepherd's pie, use lamb. Cottage Pie is one of those rare foods that is truly perfect to make in advance.

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, cottage pie. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Proper English Cottage Pie is a delicious, very traditional mince pie (beef) topped with mashed potato. Cottage pie is a combination of ground lamb or beef with mashed potatoes, topped with a bubbling layer of cheese is the perfect comfort food. Boil the potatoes until soft and mash them with the milk until smooth and creamy.

Cottage Pie is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Cottage Pie is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have cottage pie using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:

  1. {Make ready of For the mash.
  2. {Take 2.5 Kg of Maris Piper potatoes.
  3. {Prepare 150 ml of double cream.
  4. {Prepare 300 ml of milk.
  5. {Prepare 3-4 knobs of butter.
  6. {Take Pinch of salt.
  7. {Take Pinch of pepper.
  8. {Make ready Pinch of nutmeg.
  9. {Get of For the filling.
  10. {Make ready 750 g of beef mince.
  11. {Take 50 g of peas.
  12. {Get 3 tbsp of olive oil.
  13. {Make ready 2 of large knobs of salted butter.
  14. {Take 1 tbsp of paprika.
  15. {Get of Sprinkle of chilli powder.
  16. {Take of For the topping.
  17. {Get 400 g of medium cheddar cheese, grated.
  18. {Get of To serve.
  19. {Take of Savoy cabbage.
  20. {Take 600 ml of gravy.

Cottage Pie and Shepherd's Pie are both savory meat pies with a crust or topping of mashed potatoes. Traditionally, Shepherd's Pie is made with ground or minced lamb, while a Cottage Pie is made with ground or minced beef. We prefer beef in this house, so the Cottage Pie has always been our preference! Why is Cottage Pie called "Cottage Pie?" Cottage pie is a meat pie that is topped with mashed potatoes and baked in the oven.

Instructions to make Cottage Pie:

  1. Peel the potatoes and put them in a saucepan with water and a pinch of salt, and boil. This should take about 30-40 minutes..
  2. While the potatoes are cooking, add the oil and butter to a saucepan on a medium/high heat, and once the oil starts sizzling – add the mince and break it all apart so all the meat in separated. Fry until browned and the liquid fat has been cooked off. Add the peas..
  3. To check the potatoes are cooked, try and pick one up by stabbing it with a knife. If it falls off the knife with ease, the potatoes are done. Drain and mash, gradually adding milk, butter and cream where necessary. Add the salt, pepper and nutmeg… mash until there are no lumps..
  4. In a large oven dish, spread the mince filling across the bottom, until level. Repeat with the mash. Top with the cheese and bake in a preheated oven (150°C) until the cheese is golden brown. Serve immediately with gravy and savoy cabbage..

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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