Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, cottage pie. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Being from Australia, cottage pie is a favourite when it comes to comfort food for the family. Overall, this recipe is pretty close to the orignial. Not sure why you would want to add cinnamon to a traditional cottage pie.
Cottage Pie is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Cottage Pie is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have cottage pie using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:
- Get 400 g minced beef
- Make ready 1 onion
- Prepare 1/2 celery
- Make ready 200 ml soup stock
- Prepare 1 Tbsp worcestershire sauce
- Take Salt and pepper
- Take 4 potatoes
- Get 100 ml milk
- Prepare 50 g butter or margarine
- Make ready salt and pepper
I followed the recipe for everything except the green peas coz I do not have them on hand. 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.
Instructions to make Cottage Pie:
- Preheat the oven at 180°C/350°F. Chop the onion and celery into small pieces. Peel the potatoes and cut into small pieces to boil until they become soft.
- To make the mash potatoes, first put the milk, butter or margarine, salt and pepper into a small pot and mix well until the butter has melted into a sauce. Then add the boiled potatoes and mash until the texture is smooth and creamy.
- Fry and brown the minced meat in a frying pan, add the chopped vegetables and fry for a min or two on a medium heat. Then add the soup stock, Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper and simmer for 3 min.
- Put the cooked minced meat into a oven proof dish and spread the mash potatoes over the mince as evenly as possible. Finally, bake in the oven for 30 min or until the mash potato has browned. Enjoy this dish piping hot!
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. Now, cottage pie and shepherd's pie differ only in the type of ground meat they are made with.
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