Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, cottage pie. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Cottage Pie is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Cottage Pie is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook cottage pie using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:
- Make ready 8 medium sized potatoes
- Take 1/2 kg ground beef or lamb
- Take 2 carrots, diced
- Get 1 can green peas
- Get 1 can mushrooms, sliced
- Take 4 cloves garlic
- Prepare 1 onion
- Prepare 1 small box cheese, cut into cubes
- Get 1 small stick butter
- Take 500 grams spaghetti sauce
- Get 3 tablespoons oyster sauce
- Take to taste salt, sugar and pepper
- Get 1 small can evaporated milk
- Take Green bell peppers (optional)
- Make ready Spiced ham, diced and cooked
Boil the potatoes until soft and mash them with the milk until smooth and creamy. Spoon the meat mixture into a gratin dish and cover with a thick, even layer of mashed potato. Two-Potato Shepherd's Pie Shepherd's pie has another name, cottage pie, and mashed potatoes have another alternative - sweet potatoes. Whatever you call it, there's enough in the recipe to bake one casserole and freeze the other for up to three months.
Steps to make Cottage Pie:
- 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.
- Cook garlic until golden brown. Using the same pan, cook onions until translucent. Set aside.
- 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.
- 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°.
Two-Potato Shepherd's Pie Shepherd's pie has another name, cottage pie, and mashed potatoes have another alternative - sweet potatoes. Whatever you call it, there's enough in the recipe to bake one casserole and freeze the other for up to three months. Did we mention Cumberland pie is a cousin, but with bread crumbs on top? Cottage Pie is one of those rare foods that is truly perfect to make in advance. Cottage Pie and Shepherd's Pie are both savory meat pies with a crust or topping of mashed potatoes.
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