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Cottage pie or shepherd's pie is a type of savory pie. It is made with minced meat, with mashed potato on top. It comes from the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Cottage Pie is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Cottage Pie is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have cottage pie using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:
- Prepare For the mash
- Get 2.5 Kg Maris Piper potatoes
- Get 150 ml double cream
- Make ready 300 ml milk
- Get 3-4 knobs butter
- Get Pinch salt
- Prepare Pinch pepper
- Take Pinch nutmeg
- Prepare For the filling
- Take 750 g beef mince
- Make ready 50 g peas
- Prepare 3 tbsp olive oil
- Get 2 large knobs of salted butter
- Make ready 1 tbsp paprika
- Take Sprinkle of chilli powder
- Prepare For the topping
- Take 400 g medium cheddar cheese, grated
- Prepare To serve
- Get Savoy cabbage
- Make ready 600 ml gravy
Cottage Pie - comfort food central! This English classic has a deeply savoury beef mince filling smothered in gravy topped with creamy. In this cooking video The Wolfe Pit uses Gordon Ramsay's recipe to show you how to make Cottage Pie. This DELICIOUS Cottage Pie is made with a mixture of ground beef, ground sausage, and mixed vegetables in a delicious gravy and baked under a layer of fluffy mashed potatoes.
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.
Proper English Cottage Pie is a delicious, very traditional mince pie (beef) topped with mashed potato. Being from Australia, cottage pie is a favourite when it comes to comfort food for the family. Warming to the tips of your toes, a comforting dish of cottage pie is one of the best things about Make it special with Mary Berry's dauphinoise topped cottage pie, or keep it simple with James. The difference between Shepherd's Pie and Cottage Pie is the meat. Cottage Pie uses ground beef Making the best Shepherd's Pie is not difficult.
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