Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, cottage pie. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Cottage Pie is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Cottage Pie is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
Always freeze the pie on the day that you make it. Defrost in the fridge overnight, then cook as per the recipe..with the kind of refrigeration we had in our homes, cooked meat could be kept much more safely than raw. Therefore, when housewives bought their Sunday meat they selected pieces large enough to. Classic, epic Cottage Pie made properly, with a luscious filling.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have cottage pie using 14 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:
- Make ready 6 potatoes
- Make ready 1 tablespoon margarine or butter
- Take 450 g beef mince
- Make ready 1 large onion
- Prepare 2 small carrots
- Take 2 sticks celery
- Take 1 teaspoon vegetable bullion powder (marigold)
- Take 1 beef stock cube (oxo)
- Make ready 2 tablespoons beef instant gravy granules (bistro)
- Get 4 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- Get Pinch salt
- Make ready Sprinkle mixed dried herbs (herbs de Provence)
- Make ready Black pepper
- Take Cheddar Cheese
Cottage pie is a delicious variation of the classic shepherd's pie, and it's fairly simple to make at home! Use beef, rather than lamb, and fill your pie with sautéed onions, carrots, and celery. Traditional cottage pie with a rich meaty sauce, topped with creamy mashed potato, crisped up to golden perfection. Check out my tip for ensuring also get a jug of delicious gravy to pour on top.
Steps to make Cottage Pie:
- Dice the onions and slice the carrots thinly. Fry on a medium heat with a little oil season with mixed dried herbs, salt and pepper.
- Thinly slice the celery sticks and add to the frying pan.
- Once the onion starts to soften after about 10 minutes add the minced beef. Break it up into smaller chunks with a fork or spatula.
- While the beef is browning off peel the spuds and chop them into small chunks. Cover with water and boil on high.
- To prepare the liquor put the kettle on to boil. add the vegetable bullion beef stock cube, gravy granules and Worcestershire sauce to a measuring jug.
- Pour on boiling water and make up to a pint.
- Pour as much of the liquor into the meat as will fit, simmer to reduce… top up as necessary.
- Once the potatoes are nice and soft (20-25 mins) drain, add the margarine or butter and mash thoroughly.
- Pour the meat and vegetables into an oven proof dish. Cover with mash potatoes using a fork, try to keep it really fluffy and make lots of peeks so the top gets crispy.
- Cook in the oven for 20 minutes at 200 Degrees C
- Cover with grated cheddar and return to the oven for 10 mins
- It’s done… plate up and enjoy.
Traditional cottage pie with a rich meaty sauce, topped with creamy mashed potato, crisped up to golden perfection. Check out my tip for ensuring also get a jug of delicious gravy to pour on top. This DELICIOUS Cottage Pie is made with a mixture of ground beef, ground sausage, and mixed vegetables in a delicious gravy and baked under a layer of fluffy mashed potatoes. Proper English Cottage Pie is a delicious, very traditional mince pie (beef) topped with mashed potato. Being from Australia, cottage pie is a favourite when it comes to comfort food for the family.
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