Traditional Cottage Pie
Traditional Cottage Pie

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, traditional cottage pie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look 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.

Traditional Cottage Pie is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Traditional Cottage Pie is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have traditional cottage pie using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Traditional Cottage Pie:
  1. Make ready 500 grams minced beef
  2. Make ready 1 medium onion
  3. Take 2 medium carrots
  4. Get 2 clove garlic
  5. Get 1 beef oxo
  6. Get 2 tbsp Worcester sauce
  7. Get 2 tbsp brown sauce
  8. Get 300 ml gravy made up
  9. Prepare 1 big pinch of mixed herbs
  10. Get 6 large potatoes
  11. Take 75 ml milk
  12. Get 50 grams butter

Cottage pie is the total comfort food package; I'm talking about a flavorful and rich meat pie with a thick mashed potato topping. It's sometimes referred to as shepherd's pie, and the difference is that cottage pie has ground beef whereas shepherd's pie has ground lamb. This dish is definitely one of my favorite Irish/Scottish dishes, as nothing really compares when you're looking. Traditional in Briton, a Cottage Pie referred to a beef layer topped with slices of potato (recreating the tiles of a cottage) and a shepherds pie referred to a lamb layer with mash on top.

Steps to make Traditional Cottage Pie:
  1. boil the potatoes until you can cut easily with a knife
  2. mostly brown mince off in a pan
  3. dice onion and carrots. crush garlic. add to the mince. crumble oxo over and finish off browning the mince
  4. add both sauces, herbs, garlic and gravy. simmer
  5. drain the potatoes and leave to steam for 5 mins to make fluffy mash
  6. pour mince into a deep casserole dish
  7. add butter and milk to the potatoes and mash until all the lumps have gone
  8. clip the end of the pipping bag and spoon in the mash. remove clip and pipe one even layer of mash then a layer of spikes
  9. place under a grill/broiler until peaks brown
  10. if you don't have a pipping bag just spoon on the mash and spike up with a fork

In recent times the difference has become slightly blurred, where cottage and shepherds just simply distinguishes whether the meat is beef or lamb. Cottage pie is actually older than shepherd's pie. Potatoes were affordable ingredients that were often used by the peasants, who lived in cottages. So, "cottage pie" was an easy to make, affordable dish. Meanwhile, heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium heat.

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