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Cottage Pie ( also known as Shepard's Pie) is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Cottage Pie ( also known as Shepard's Pie) is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

Cottage Pie on the other hand is said to be from England (but also enjoyed in loads of other countries). It's actually been said that Cottage Pie was historically used to name any pie containing meat and mashed potatoes. Shepherd's pie, cottage pie, or hachis Parmentier is a ground meat pie with a crust or topping of mashed potato of English origin.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have cottage pie ( also known as shepard's pie) using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie ( also known as Shepard's Pie):

1. Get 1 lb ground beef.
2. Take 1/2 cup frozen peas
3. Prepare 1/4 cup chopped carrots
4. Get 1 onion (med) chopped
5. Get 1 glove of garlic chopped
6. Prepare 2 tbsp worcestershire sauce
7. Make ready 4 medium potatoes peeled and chopped
8. Take 1 tbsp green onions chopped
9. Get 1 tbsp cream cheese (can add another tbsp)
10. Prepare 1 tbsp milk (can add another tbsp)
11. Take 2 tbsp butter
12. Take 1 tbsp olive oil

Shepards pie (also known as Shepherd's pie or Cottage Pie) is a meat pie with a crust or topping of mashed potato. In early cookery books, the dish was a means of using leftover roasted meat of any kind, and the pie dish was lined on the sides and bottom with mashed potato, as well as having a mashed potato crust on top. Cottage pie is actually older than shepherd's pie. Potatoes were affordable ingredients that were often used by the peasants, who lived in cottages.

Steps to make Cottage Pie ( also known as Shepard's Pie):

1. Boil potatoes in salted water until tender. Approximately 15 min.
2. Meanwhile sautee chopped onion, carrots and garlic with the olive oil in a frying pan for 5 min. You can add other veg such as mushrooms and celery.
3. Add your ground beef and saute for 10 min until no longer pink. Add a pinch of salt and pepper and the worchester sauce and cook for 5 minutes more. Add the frozen peas and cook for 2-3 min.
4. Add the butter and mash the potatoes. Add milk, chopped green onion and cream cheese. Use a spoon to mix together. Season with salt & pepper to taste.
5. Add meat to a baking dish and cover with mashed potatoes. You can add if you like grated cheese on top of the potatoes.
6. Cook @ 400°F in preheated oven for 30 min or until crisp on top.

So, "cottage pie" was an easy to make, affordable dish. This book was Left-Over Meat Dishes by Elizabeth Craig, who was also a Scot. There, the 'shepherds' pie term is listed in the index as a cross reference to cottage pie. The term "cottage pie" predates "shepherd's" by nearly a century, but each was used synonymously with the other for a long time. The Chilean version of "pastel de papa", a dish similar to shepherd's pie eaten in many parts of the world, also contains hard-boiled eggs, raisins and black olives.

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