Cottage Pie
Cottage Pie

Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, cottage pie. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. 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. Spoon the meat mixture into a gratin dish and cover with a thick, even layer of mashed potato.

Cottage Pie is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Cottage Pie is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have cottage pie using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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

We prefer beef in this house, so the Cottage Pie has always been our preference! Why is Cottage Pie called "Cottage Pie?" 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.

Steps 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.

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. 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?

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