Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, cottage pie. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Gourmet food delivered to your door. Our gourmet frozen foods require little to no prep - make your occasion extra special. Proper English Cottage Pie is a delicious, very traditional mince pie (beef) topped with mashed potato. 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.
Cottage Pie is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Cottage Pie is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have cottage pie using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:
- Take 8 medium sized potatoes
- Make ready 1/2 kg ground beef or lamb
- Get 2 carrots, diced
- Make ready 1 can green peas
- Get 1 can mushrooms, sliced
- Make ready 4 cloves garlic
- Get 1 onion
- Make ready 1 small box cheese, cut into cubes
- Prepare 1 small stick butter
- Make ready 500 grams spaghetti sauce
- Make ready 3 tablespoons oyster sauce
- Take to taste salt, sugar and pepper
- Take 1 small can evaporated milk
- Take Green bell peppers (optional)
- Get Spiced ham, diced and cooked
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. Did we mention Cumberland pie is a cousin, but with bread crumbs on top?
Instructions 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°.
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. Traditionally, Shepherd's Pie is made with ground or minced lamb, while a Cottage Pie is made with ground or minced beef.
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