Recipe of Any-night-of-the-week Cottage pie

Cottage pie. 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.

Always freeze the pie on the day that you make it. Defrost in the fridge overnight, then cook as per the recipe. Wonderful cottage pie reminds me of the meals I had in my British school's canteen.

Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we're going to make a distinctive dish, cottage pie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really 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 well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It's easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Cottage pie is something that I've loved my whole life. They're fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have cottage pie using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

Composition for Cottage pie:

1. Provide - Mince.
2. Prepare 1 of onion.
3. You need 1 clove - garlic.
4. Prepare 3 of carrots, sliced.
5. Need 250 g mushrooms, sliced.
6. You need 1 can chopped tomatoes.
7. You need 2 cans of water.
8. Require 500 g beef mince.
9. Provide 2 tbsp of tomato purée.
10. Prepare 1 - beef stock cube.
11. Provide Black pepper.
12. Provide of Italian herbs.
13. You need of Mash.
14. Require 500 g - Potatoes (or however many needed to cover top with mash).
15. Give 25 g - butter.
16. Require - Milk.

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.

Cottage pie step by step:

1. Fry the onions and garlic for 2min, add the carrots, put on the lid and sweet for 5min.
2. Once swerved, add the mushrooms and fry for a few minutes.
3. Add mince and brown.
4. Add stock cube, purée, tomatoes, water, herbs and pepper. Bring to the boil and simmer for 50min.
5. Pre heat oven to 200oC.
6. While the mince is simmering, peal the potatoes, cut into equal chunks and boil for 20mins.
7. When the potatoes have boiled, mash them with butter and milk..
8. When both the mince and mash are ready but mince in the bottom of dish and put mash on top. Make pattern with fork on top in the mash. Put in oven for 20min.
9. .

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. A traditional cottage pie is made with ground beef and topped with mashed potatoes. We used potato slices, which saves time and looks good, too.

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