Guide to Make Cottage Pie ( also known as Shepard's Pie) in 27 Minutes for Beginners

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Shepherd's pie, cottage pie, or hachis Parmentier is a ground meat pie with a crust or topping of mashed potato of English origin. The recipe has many variations, but the defining ingredients are ground red meat cooked in a gravy or sauce with onions, and topped with a layer of mashed potato before it is baked. Sometimes other vegetables are added to the filling, such as peas, sweetcorn.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook cottage pie ( also known as shepard's pie) using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie ( also known as Shepard's Pie):

1. Prepare ground beef.
2. Get frozen peas
3. Prepare chopped carrots
4. Take onion (med) chopped
5. Take glove of garlic chopped
6. Get worcestershire sauce
7. Get potatoes peeled and chopped
8. Prepare green onions chopped
9. Make ready cream cheese (can add another tbsp)
10. Get milk (can add another tbsp)
11. Take butter
12. Get olive oil

Cottage Pie on the other hand is said to be from England (but also enjoyed in loads of other countries). It's actually been said that Cottage Pie was historically used to name any pie containing meat and mashed potatoes. Shepards pie (also known as Shepherd's pie or Cottage Pie) is a meat pie with a crust or topping of mashed potato. In early cookery books, the dish was a means of using leftover roasted meat of any kind, and the pie dish was lined on the sides and bottom with mashed potato, as well as having a mashed potato crust on top.

Instructions to make Cottage Pie ( also known as Shepard's Pie):

1. Boil potatoes in salted water until tender. Approximately 15 min.
2. Meanwhile sautee chopped onion, carrots and garlic with the olive oil in a frying pan for 5 min. You can add other veg such as mushrooms and celery.
3. Add your ground beef and saute for 10 min until no longer pink. Add a pinch of salt and pepper and the worchester sauce and cook for 5 minutes more. Add the frozen peas and cook for 2-3 min.
4. Add the butter and mash the potatoes. Add milk, chopped green onion and cream cheese. Use a spoon to mix together. Season with salt & pepper to taste.
5. Add meat to a baking dish and cover with mashed potatoes. You can add if you like grated cheese on top of the potatoes.
6. Cook @ 400°F in preheated oven for 30 min or until crisp on top.

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. This traditional English dish is a close relative to Shepherd's Pie only it's made with beef instead of lamb. After Thanksgiving I love to use leftover mashed potatoes (and even turkey) to make this cottage pie recipe. Shepherd's Pie Shepherd's Pie Ingredients Base. Ground meat - Shepherd's Pie traditionally uses with lamb or mutton, however in the United States we typically use ground beef.

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