Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, cottage pie. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will 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 recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Cottage Pie is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have cottage pie using 14 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:

1. Make ready 6 potatoes
2. Get 1 tablespoon margarine or butter
3. Get 450 g beef mince
4. Take 1 large onion
5. Prepare 2 small carrots
6. Prepare 2 sticks celery
7. Get 1 teaspoon vegetable bullion powder (marigold)
8. Prepare 1 beef stock cube (oxo)
9. Get 2 tablespoons beef instant gravy granules (bistro)
10. Take 4 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
11. Make ready Pinch salt
12. Prepare Sprinkle mixed dried herbs (herbs de Provence)
13. Prepare Black pepper
14. Prepare Cheddar Cheese

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.

Steps to make Cottage Pie:

1. 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.
2. Thinly slice the celery sticks and add to the frying pan.
3. 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.
4. While the beef is browning off peel the spuds and chop them into small chunks. Cover with water and boil on high.
5. 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.
6. Pour on boiling water and make up to a pint.
7. Pour as much of the liquor into the meat as will fit, simmer to reduce… top up as necessary.
8. Once the potatoes are nice and soft (20-25 mins) drain, add the margarine or butter and mash thoroughly.
9. 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.
10. Cook in the oven for 20 minutes at 200 Degrees C
11. Cover with grated cheddar and return to the oven for 10 mins
12. It’s done… plate up and enjoy.

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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