Simple Way to Prepare Cottage Pie in 30 Minutes for Family

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, cottage pie. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Cottage Pie is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Cottage Pie is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

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.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have cottage pie using 18 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:

1. Prepare Mashed Potato on top
2. Get potato (peeled and boiled)
3. Make ready butter
4. Prepare milk
5. Make ready Salt
6. Get Pepper
7. Prepare Beef Filling
8. Prepare minced beef
9. Take carrots (grated or diced)
10. Get corn kernel
11. Prepare peas
12. Get tomato crush (or you can substitute with 3 tbs tomato paste)
13. Prepare Worcestershire sauce
14. Take bay leaves
15. Prepare bbq sauce (optional)
16. Prepare Salt
17. Make ready Pepper
18. Prepare brown onion (peeled and diced finely)

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. For a shepherd's pie, use lamb. 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:

1. First, boiled the potatoes then mashed it together with butter, milk, salt and pepper to your liking until it silky smooth in texture. Set aside.
2. Heat the oil on the pan, put onion and stir until brownish and have nice fragrance then add the minced beef. After that, put all the veggies, bay leaves, tomato crush/paste and seasoning. Set aside.
3. Put the beef filling on pyrex or pie dish, layer with mashed potato. For final touch you can add permesan cheese or parsley. Then put on the oven 170 degrees until mashed potato a bit crusty.

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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