Traditional Cottage Pie
Traditional Cottage Pie

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, traditional cottage pie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Proper English Cottage Pie is a delicious, very traditional mince pie (beef) topped with mashed potato. See Full Nutritional Guidelines (Nutrition information is calculated using an ingredient database and should be considered an estimate.) Cottage pie is one of the classics of a British classic kitchen. It is known for being a hearty, filling, and warming food and although often thought of as a winter dish, it is perfect any time of year. Cottage pie is a classic dish that comes from the UK and Ireland.

Traditional Cottage Pie is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Traditional Cottage Pie is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook traditional cottage pie using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Traditional Cottage Pie:
  1. Take 500 grams minced beef
  2. Get 1 medium onion
  3. Get 2 medium carrots
  4. Get 2 clove garlic
  5. Take 1 beef oxo
  6. Take 2 tbsp Worcester sauce
  7. Prepare 2 tbsp brown sauce
  8. Prepare 300 ml gravy made up
  9. Get 1 big pinch of mixed herbs
  10. Make ready 6 large potatoes
  11. Make ready 75 ml milk
  12. Make ready 50 grams butter

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. Remove from pan and set aside.

Instructions to make Traditional Cottage Pie:
  1. boil the potatoes until you can cut easily with a knife
  2. mostly brown mince off in a pan
  3. dice onion and carrots. crush garlic. add to the mince. crumble oxo over and finish off browning the mince
  4. add both sauces, herbs, garlic and gravy. simmer
  5. drain the potatoes and leave to steam for 5 mins to make fluffy mash
  6. pour mince into a deep casserole dish
  7. add butter and milk to the potatoes and mash until all the lumps have gone
  8. clip the end of the pipping bag and spoon in the mash. remove clip and pipe one even layer of mash then a layer of spikes
  9. place under a grill/broiler until peaks brown
  10. if you don't have a pipping bag just spoon on the mash and spike up with a fork

I forgot to dot extra butter on top, but it still came out crisp with adequately brown. Remove from pan and set aside. Drain most of the accumulated fat from the pan. Melt the butter in a pan on a medium heat. Classic Cottage Pie 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.

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