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.
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.
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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 favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Cottage pie is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first 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:
- {Get of Mince.
- {Take 1 of onion.
- {Prepare 1 clove of garlic.
- {Make ready 3 of carrots, sliced.
- {Get 250 g of mushrooms, sliced.
- {Get 1 can of chopped tomatoes.
- {Prepare 2 cans of water.
- {Prepare 500 g of beef mince.
- {Take 2 tbsp of tomato purée.
- {Take 1 of beef stock cube.
- {Make ready of Black pepper.
- {Make ready of Italian herbs.
- {Get of Mash.
- {Get 500 g of Potatoes (or however many needed to cover top with mash).
- {Make ready 25 g of butter.
- {Make ready of Milk.
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.
Steps to make Cottage pie:
- Fry the onions and garlic for 2min, add the carrots, put on the lid and sweet for 5min.
- Once swerved, add the mushrooms and fry for a few minutes.
- Add mince and brown.
- Add stock cube, purée, tomatoes, water, herbs and pepper. Bring to the boil and simmer for 50min.
- Pre heat oven to 200oC.
- While the mince is simmering, peal the potatoes, cut into equal chunks and boil for 20mins.
- When the potatoes have boiled, mash them with butter and milk..
- 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.
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Now, cottage pie and shepherd's pie differ only in the type of ground meat they are made with. Two-Potato Shepherd's Pie Shepherd's pie has another name, cottage pie, and mashed potatoes have another alternative – sweet potatoes. Whatever you call it, there's enough in the recipe to bake one casserole and freeze the other for up to three months. Did we mention Cumberland pie is a cousin, but with bread crumbs on top? At its most basic, cottage pie is a meat pie (or casserole) that is topped with mashed potatoes rather than a pie crust.
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