Easiest Way to Make Speedy Cottage Pie

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, cottage pie. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Always freeze the pie on the day that you make it. Defrost in the fridge overnight, then cook as per the recipe..with the kind of refrigeration we had in our homes, cooked meat could be kept much more safely than raw. Therefore, when housewives bought their Sunday meat they selected pieces large enough to. Classic, epic Cottage Pie made properly, with a luscious filling.

Cottage Pie is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Cottage Pie is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have cottage pie using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:

1. Get 1 Tablespoon Oil
2. Take 500 g Beef Mince
3. Prepare 1 Large Onion
4. Prepare 1 Garlic Clove
5. Make ready 2 Sprigs Fresh Thyme
6. Take 2 Tablespoons Tomato Purée
7. Take 2 Large Carrots (cut small)
8. Make ready 500 ml Beef Stock
9. Get 2 Tablespoons Worcestershire Sauce
10. Take 1 Tablespoon Butter
11. Take Salt and Pepper (to taste)
12. Make ready 1 Tablespoon Flour
13. Make ready 8 Medium Potatoes
14. Prepare 50 ml Milk

Use beef, rather than lamb, and fill your pie with sautéed onions, carrots, and celery. Reviews for: Photos of Cottage Pie. This DELICIOUS Cottage Pie is made with a mixture of ground beef, ground sausage, and mixed vegetables in a delicious gravy and baked under a layer of fluffy mashed potatoes. Cottage pie is actually older than shepherd's pie.

Steps to make Cottage Pie:

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C
2. Peel, wash and chop the potatoes into 4, add to saucepan with boiling water and a pinch of salt. Boil for 25 minutes on a medium/high heat
3. Heat up pan until hot or as I like to use, my wok as it is great for quick cooking! Add the tablespoon of oil and break up the mince into the pan, cooking until the meat has browned
4. Add the onion, garlic, carrots and thyme and fry until softened
5. Add the tablespoon of flour (through a sieve) try not to get any big lumps in there! Stir on a low/medium heat covering the meat and veggies - (this will help thicken the stock when you add it)
6. Add tomato purée, salt and pepper to taste and then add the beef stock stirring as you add. Leave to simmer for 25 minutes to let the vegetables soften and the sauce thicken
7. Whilst your filling is simmering away strain your potatoes and mash them adding your butter and a good grind of pepper
8. Pour the mince filling into a baking dish and top with the mash. Fluff the top with a fork and I like to rub a little butter in with the fork so when it goes into the oven it makes it nice and crisp!
9. Cook for 10-15 minutes untill nice and golden brown and hot all the way through. Serve with some broccoli / asparagus 👍🏼

This DELICIOUS Cottage Pie is made with a mixture of ground beef, ground sausage, and mixed vegetables in a delicious gravy and baked under a layer of fluffy mashed potatoes. Cottage pie is actually older than shepherd's pie. It is a dish that originated around the time that potatoes were introduced At its most basic, cottage pie is a meat pie (or casserole) that is topped. This classic cottage pie recipe is easy to make and would make the perfect family meal packed with minced beef, sweet tomatoes and topped with creamy mash. Traditional cottage pie with a rich meaty sauce, topped with creamy mashed potato, crisped up to golden perfection.

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