Recipe of Perfect Cottage Pie

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, 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 favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Cottage Pie is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have cottage pie using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:

1. Get For the mash
2. Prepare 2.5 Kg Maris Piper potatoes
3. Prepare 150 ml double cream
4. Make ready 300 ml milk
5. Take 3-4 knobs butter
6. Take Pinch salt
7. Prepare Pinch pepper
8. Get Pinch nutmeg
9. Get For the filling
10. Prepare 750 g beef mince
11. Get 50 g peas
12. Make ready 3 tbsp olive oil
13. Get 2 large knobs of salted butter
14. Make ready 1 tbsp paprika
15. Make ready Sprinkle of chilli powder
16. Make ready For the topping
17. Prepare 400 g medium cheddar cheese, grated
18. Make ready To serve
19. Take Savoy cabbage
20. Take 600 ml gravy

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 the potatoes and put them in a saucepan with water and a pinch of salt, and boil. This should take about 30-40 minutes.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.

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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