Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, cottage pie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

For this savory pie, ground beef, onions, veggies, herbs and spices marry perfectly: Everything is sauteed together and then combined with broth and tomato paste, and simmered until ready to pour into a prepared pie crust. The hearty filling is then topped with fluffy mashed potatoes, sprinkled with Cheddar cheese, and baked. 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.

Cottage Pie is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Cottage Pie is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have cottage pie using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:

1. Get 1 large onion - diced
2. Get 2 large carrots - diced
3. Get 1 stick celery - diced
4. Prepare 500 grams beef mince
5. Prepare 1 tbsp tomato puree
6. Take 1 tbsp worcestershire sauce
7. Get 1 tsp dried mixed herbs
8. Take 2 tbsp flour
9. Take 500 ml beef stock
10. Take 200 grams mushrooms - sliced
11. Prepare 800 grams potatoes - diced
12. Take Butter and milk to mash potatoes

I use a bigger onion instead. I forgot to dot extra butter on top but it still came out crisp with adequately brown. There are many variations of the recipe, but the defining ingredients include minced or ground beef with onions (and sometimes other vegetables) in. This is a meat and carb heavy dish, so it goes really well with fresh side salads like a Rocket Salad with Balsamic Dressing, or a Garden Salad with French or Italian Dressing.

Instructions to make Cottage Pie:

1. Brown onions, carrots and celery in a large pan.
2. Add mince and continue cooking until brown.
3. Add tomato puree, worcestershire sauce, mixed herbs and flour, stir together and add beef stock and mushrooms.
4. Continue cooking with a lid on for 30 mins on a low heat.
5. In a separate pan bring potatoes to the boil in salted water and cook until tender.
6. Transfer meat mixture to a large pie dish.
7. Mash potatoes with plenty of butter and a little milk.
8. Spread mash on top of meat evenly and fluff with a fork.
9. Place pie under a pre-heated grill until golden brown.

I recently served it with this Carrot Salad with a Honey Dijon Dressing which was a hit!. For a cosy meal on a cold winter night, try it with a side of Glazed Roasted Carrots and Sautéed. Cottage pie is a meat pie that is topped with mashed potatoes and baked in the oven. Now, cottage pie and shepherd's pie differ only in the type of ground meat they are made with. A traditional cottage pie is made with ground beef and topped with mashed potatoes.

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