Simple Way to Prepare Cottage pie in 22 Minutes for Family

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, cottage pie. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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. Not sure why you would want to add cinnamon to a traditional cottage pie.

Cottage pie is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Cottage pie is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have cottage pie using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Cottage pie:

1. Prepare Mince
2. Make ready 1 onion
3. Get 1 clove garlic
4. Prepare 3 carrots, sliced
5. Prepare 250 g mushrooms, sliced
6. Take 1 can chopped tomatoes
7. Prepare 2 cans water
8. Get 500 g beef mince
9. Take 2 tbsp tomato purée
10. Get 1 beef stock cube
11. Make ready Black pepper
12. Prepare Italian herbs
13. Make ready Mash
14. Prepare 500 g Potatoes (or however many needed to cover top with mash)
15. Get 25 g butter
16. Make ready Milk

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. 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.

Instructions to make Cottage pie:

1. Fry the onions and garlic for 2min, add the carrots, put on the lid and sweet for 5min
2. Once swerved, add the mushrooms and fry for a few minutes
3. Add mince and brown
4. Add stock cube, purée, tomatoes, water, herbs and pepper. Bring to the boil and simmer for 50min
5. Pre heat oven to 200oC
6. While the mince is simmering, peal the potatoes, cut into equal chunks and boil for 20mins
7. When the potatoes have boiled, mash them with butter and milk.
8. When both the mince and mash are ready but mince in the bottom of dish and put mash on top. Make pattern with fork on top in the mash. Put in oven for 20min

This is a meat and carb heavy dish, so it goes really well with fresh side salads like a Rocket Salad with Balsamic Dressing, or a Garden Salad with French or Italian Dressing. I recently served it with this Carrot Salad with a Honey Dijon Dressing which was a hit!. For a cosy meal on a cold winter night, try it with a side of Glazed Roasted Carrots and Sautéed. Cottage pie is a meat pie that is topped with mashed potatoes and baked in the oven. Now, cottage pie and shepherd's pie differ only in the type of ground meat they are made with.

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