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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. 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.
Cottage Pie is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Cottage Pie is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook cottage pie using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:
- Make ready For the mash
- Take 2.5 Kg Maris Piper potatoes
- Get 150 ml double cream
- Prepare 300 ml milk
- Prepare 3-4 knobs butter
- Prepare Pinch salt
- Take Pinch pepper
- Prepare Pinch nutmeg
- Make ready For the filling
- Make ready 750 g beef mince
- Make ready 50 g peas
- Prepare 3 tbsp olive oil
- Prepare 2 large knobs of salted butter
- Get 1 tbsp paprika
- Get Sprinkle of chilli powder
- Get For the topping
- Prepare 400 g medium cheddar cheese, grated
- Make ready To serve
- Get Savoy cabbage
- Get 600 ml gravy
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. We prefer beef in this house, so the Cottage Pie has always been our preference! Why is Cottage Pie called "Cottage Pie?" Cottage pie is a meat pie that is topped with mashed potatoes and baked in the oven.
Instructions to make Cottage Pie:
- Peel the potatoes and put them in a saucepan with water and a pinch of salt, and boil. This should take about 30-40 minutes.
- While the potatoes are cooking, add the oil and butter to a saucepan on a medium/high heat, and once the oil starts sizzling - add the mince and break it all apart so all the meat in separated. Fry until browned and the liquid fat has been cooked off. Add the peas.
- To check the potatoes are cooked, try and pick one up by stabbing it with a knife. If it falls off the knife with ease, the potatoes are done. Drain and mash, gradually adding milk, butter and cream where necessary. Add the salt, pepper and nutmeg… mash until there are no lumps.
- In a large oven dish, spread the mince filling across the bottom, until level. Repeat with the mash. Top with the cheese and bake in a preheated oven (150°C) until the cheese is golden brown. Serve immediately with gravy and savoy cabbage.
We prefer beef in this house, so the Cottage Pie has always been our preference! Why is Cottage Pie called "Cottage Pie?" 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. At its most basic, cottage pie is a meat pie (or casserole) that is topped with mashed potatoes rather than a pie crust. After this, it can vary greatly from region to region (or kitchen to kitchen).
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