Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. 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 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 favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Cottage pie is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook cottage pie using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Cottage pie:

1. Prepare Mince
2. Get 1 onion
3. Prepare 1 clove garlic
4. Make ready 3 carrots, sliced
5. Make ready 250 g mushrooms, sliced
6. Take 1 can chopped tomatoes
7. Take 2 cans water
8. Get 500 g beef mince
9. Take 2 tbsp tomato purée
10. Make ready 1 beef stock cube
11. Get Black pepper
12. Prepare Italian herbs
13. Make ready Mash
14. Make ready 500 g Potatoes (or however many needed to cover top with mash)
15. Make ready 25 g butter
16. Make ready Milk

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. Cottage pie is a meat pie that is topped with mashed potatoes and baked in the oven.

Instructions to make Cottage pie:

1. Fry the onions and garlic for 2min, add the carrots, put on the lid and sweet for 5min
2. Once swerved, add the mushrooms and fry for a few minutes
3. Add mince and brown
4. Add stock cube, purée, tomatoes, water, herbs and pepper. Bring to the boil and simmer for 50min
5. Pre heat oven to 200oC
6. While the mince is simmering, peal the potatoes, cut into equal chunks and boil for 20mins
7. When the potatoes have boiled, mash them with butter and milk.
8. When both the mince and mash are ready but mince in the bottom of dish and put mash on top. Make pattern with fork on top in the mash. Put in oven for 20min

Now, cottage pie and shepherd's pie differ only in the type of ground meat they are made with. 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. 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. A traditional cottage pie is made with ground beef and topped with mashed potatoes.

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