Recipe of Award-winning Cottage pie

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, cottage pie. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Classic, epic Cottage Pie made properly, with a luscious filling. Cottage Pie - comfort food central! This English classic has a deeply savoury beef mince filling smothered in gravy topped with creamy. Always freeze the pie on the day that you make it.

Cottage pie is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Cottage pie is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have cottage pie using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Cottage pie:

1. Get 450 g beef mince
2. Get 2 sticks celery
3. Get 2 medium carrots
4. Take 1 red onion
5. Make ready 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
6. Take 3 tsp bisto beef gravy granules
7. Take 1 tablespoons tomato puree
8. Take 5 medium sized Maris Piper potatoes

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. 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. Cottage pie is a delicious variation of the classic shepherd's pie, and it's fairly simple to make at home!

Steps to make Cottage pie:

1. Peel and chop the potatoes and put onto boil. These take approx 18mins from reaching the boil. Drain and mash these with a splash of milk and a knob of real butter. Go for a wetter mash as you need to be able to spread it on top of the meat mix later.
2. Whilst the potato cooks, dice up the onion, celery and carrots and in a separate pan saute these in the vegetable oil.
3. Once the vegetables have softened a little add the tomato puree. Then add the minced beef to brown. Keep stirring so that any lumps are broken up.
4. When the meat is browned add in the gravy granules and a little water (about 1/4 pint) to make the mixture wet and gravy coated but not swimming. Spoon this into a n ovenproof dish.
5. Add the mash to the dish. Spread it out to cover all the meat mixture. You can leave the dish at this point if you need to prepare ahead of mealtime.
6. When ready to get the meal together put the dish into a 200° oven for approx 30 mins. If you like cheese add some grated cheddar to top the dish for the last 15 mins
7. Serve with boiled or steamed vegetables on the side with beef gravy.

Being from Australia, cottage pie is a favourite when it comes to comfort food for the family. Cottage pie is a delicious variation of the classic shepherd's pie, and it's fairly simple to make at home! Use beef, rather than lamb, and fill your pie with sautéed onions, carrots, and celery. This comforting cottage pie is packed with the goodness of onions, carrots, chestnut mushrooms, tomatoes, and of course plenty of mince. This cottage pie recipe is an ideal meal for batch cooking.

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