Cottage Pie. 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. It's a good remedy for the winter chills.—Shannon Copley, Upper Arlington, Ohio Classic Cottage Pie Recipe photo by Taste of Home Proper English Cottage Pie is a delicious, very traditional mince pie (beef) topped with mashed potato. 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.
Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, cottage pie. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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. It's a good remedy for the winter chills.—Shannon Copley, Upper Arlington, Ohio Classic Cottage Pie Recipe photo by Taste of Home Proper English Cottage Pie is a delicious, very traditional mince pie (beef) topped with mashed potato. Boil the potatoes until soft and mash them with the milk until smooth and creamy.
Cottage Pie is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Cottage Pie is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook cottage pie using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:
- {Prepare 500 g of lean beef mince.
- {Take 1 of carrot, diced.
- {Get 1 of onion, finely chopped.
- {Take 2 of celery sticks, diced.
- {Get 3 of large potatoes cut into large cubes.
- {Get 500 ml of beef stock.
- {Make ready of Mixed herbs.
- {Take of Worcestershire sauce.
- {Take of Salt and pepper.
- {Make ready of Garlic paste.
- {Make ready 1 of little red wine.
- {Make ready of Olive oil.
- {Prepare of Milk.
- {Make ready of Butter.
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:
- Preheat the oven to about 190°. Heat a little olive oil in a large sauce pan and add the onion, carrot and celery (apparently called a mirepoix). Cook for a few minutes..
- Crumble in the mince to the mirepoix and cook until brown, stirring with a fork rather than a spoon (stops the mince from clumping together)..
- Add in a little red wine, a little Worcestershire sauce, some garlic paste, mixed herbs, salt and pepper, all to taste and then add the beef stock. Simmer, covered for about 20 minutes..
- Meanwhile, in a separate pan, cook the potatoes until soft, about 15 minutes, then mash with a little butter and milk until smooth and set aside..
- Transfer the minced beef and vegetables to an oven dish..
- Layer the mashed potatoes on top and fluff with a fork. Cook in the oven for about 30 minutes until the potatoes are nice and golden. Enjoy 😋.
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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