Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, cottage pie. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Cottage pie is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Cottage pie is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
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.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook cottage pie using 22 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Cottage pie:
- Prepare 500 g minced beef
- Make ready 2 Tbsp olive oil
- Make ready 2 small onion grated
- Make ready 2 small carrots grated
- Take 3 cloves garlic grated
- Make ready 2 Tbsp Worceshire sauce
- Prepare 2 Oxo cubes (beef stock cubes)
- Prepare 300 ml warm water
- Take 3 Tbsp tomato puree
- Prepare 200 ml red wine
- Take 1 Tsp rosemary (dry)
- Make ready 1 Tsp Thymes (dry)
- Take 2 Tbsp hot chilli powder (optional)
- Prepare Mashed potatoes top
- Get 500-550 g floury potatoes cut to medium -small chunk (same size)
- Prepare 50 g butter
- Get 100 milk
- Take 2 egg yolks
- Make ready 2 + Tbsp grated Parmesan cheese
- Make ready Seasoning
- Take Grated Parmesan cheese to top
- Get Salt & black pepper
There are many variations of the recipe, but the defining ingredients include minced or ground beef with onions (and sometimes other vegetables) in. 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.
Steps to make Cottage pie:
- Heat up the oven at 190 c or 200 c for Halogen oven.
- Heat up the pan with olive oil and brown the minced beef. Season with salt & pepper.
- Add grated onion, carrots and garlic.
- Add worceshire sauce, tomato puree, rosemary and thymes. Stir them and let them cook. Don’t forget to season with salt & pepper.
- Pour in the red wine and reduce until almost completely evaporated. Add the oxo cubes and water, simmer until the sauce has thickened.
- When we reducing the sauce, cook the potatoes with high heat from cold salted water until the water are boiling. Reduce to low heat, close the lid for 8 -10 minutes. Drain them in colander and leave them dry for 5 minutes. Then return them to the pan. Mash them. Leave them to one side and add milk and butter in the pan. Season with salt & pepper.
- Heat the milk & butter. When the butter are melted. Mix the mashed potatoes in milk & butter. Turn off the heat. beat in the egg yolks, followed by about 2 tbsp grated Parmesan. Mix them up. Check for seasoning.
- Now we are ready to assemble. Add all beef sauce in the bowl (oven bowl or Pyrex bowl). Then add mashed potatoes on top. Season with salt, pepper and grated parmesan cheese on top of mashed potatoes. Don’t forget to fluff the top of mashed potatoes before putting in the oven.
- Bake in the oven for approximately 18-20 minutes, until bubbling and golden brown. I baked them in halogen oven for 30 minutes.
- Now, it’s ready yo be served
Cottage pie is actually older than shepherd's pie. Potatoes were affordable ingredients that were often used by the peasants, who lived in cottages. 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. Cottage pie is a cheap and nutritious option for a family Sunday dinner.
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