Cottage Pie
Cottage Pie

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, cottage pie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Cottage Pie is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Cottage Pie is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

Read Customer Reviews & Find Best Sellers. 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.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have cottage pie using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:
  1. Get 8 medium sized potatoes
  2. Get 1/2 kg ground beef or lamb
  3. Prepare 2 carrots, diced
  4. Make ready 1 can green peas
  5. Make ready 1 can mushrooms, sliced
  6. Take 4 cloves garlic
  7. Get 1 onion
  8. Prepare 1 small box cheese, cut into cubes
  9. Prepare 1 small stick butter
  10. Make ready 500 grams spaghetti sauce
  11. Take 3 tablespoons oyster sauce
  12. Get to taste salt, sugar and pepper
  13. Take 1 small can evaporated milk
  14. Make ready Green bell peppers (optional)
  15. Make ready Spiced ham, diced and cooked

I forgot to dot extra butter on top, but it still came out crisp with adequately brown. View Suggestions BACK TO TOP See all Scripps Networks Digital. 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.

Instructions to make Cottage Pie:
  1. 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.
  2. Cook garlic until golden brown. Using the same pan, cook onions until translucent. Set aside.
  3. 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.
  4. 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°.

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 a gravy. Cottage pie is actually older than shepherd's pie. Potatoes were affordable ingredients that were often used by the peasants, who lived in cottages. Prepared mashed potatoes will help you whip up this classic Cottage Pie with Potato Crust recipe with ease.

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