Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, cottage pie. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Cottage Pie is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Cottage Pie is something that I have loved my whole life.

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. It's a good remedy for the winter chills.—Shannon Copley, Upper Arlington, Ohio 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.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook cottage pie using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:

1. Make ready 8 medium sized potatoes
2. Get 1/2 kg ground beef or lamb
3. Prepare 2 carrots, diced
4. Prepare 1 can green peas
5. Make ready 1 can mushrooms, sliced
6. Make ready 4 cloves garlic
7. Get 1 onion
8. Make ready 1 small box cheese, cut into cubes
9. Take 1 small stick butter
10. Make ready 500 grams spaghetti sauce
11. Make ready 3 tablespoons oyster sauce
12. Prepare to taste salt, sugar and pepper
13. Make ready 1 small can evaporated milk
14. Make ready Green bell peppers (optional)
15. Get Spiced ham, diced and cooked

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

Instructions to make Cottage Pie:

1. Boil potatoes in a pot until soft/cooked. Peel once cool enough to handle. Mash while adding milk and half of the butter. Set aside for later.
2. Cook garlic until golden brown. Using the same pan, cook onions until translucent. Set aside.
3. Cook ground beef for 15-20 minutes or until brown. Mix cooked garlic, onions and remaining butter. Add carrots and mushrooms. Add spaghetti sauce, green peas, and cubed cheese (leave some to grate and use for topping later). You may also add green bell peppers and cooked spiced ham if you want. Simmer for 15 minutes or until carrots are cooked.
4. In an oven-safe dish or bowl, put meat sauce and on top of it, layer prepared mashed potato mixture. Sprinkle with grated cheese and pop in the oven for 10 minutes at 350°.

Now, cottage pie and shepherd's pie differ only in the type of ground meat they are made with. Cottage pie is actually older than shepherd's pie. Potatoes were affordable ingredients that were often used by the peasants, who lived in cottages. Why is it called cottage pie? It originated when the potato was being introduced as a cheap food for the poor, and the dish was popular among the people living in modest cottages.

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