Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, cottage pie. One of my favorites. 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.

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

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have cottage pie using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Cottage pie:

1. Get 2 onions
2. Take 1 big carrot
3. Prepare 2 cloves garlic minced
4. Prepare 50 g sliced peppers
5. Take 70 g peas
6. Get 250 g minced beef
7. Prepare 2 tins chopped tomatoes
8. Take 1 sachet shepherds pie mix
9. Make ready 5 big cubed potatoes
10. Take 50 ml milk
11. Make ready 50 g butter/spread
12. Take to taste Salt and pepper
13. Prepare Handful grated cheese

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 Saut??ed.

Steps to make Cottage pie:

1. In a deep frying pan/wok, fry your chopped onions and the garlic till the onions turn brown. Add the mince and brown. Add your tomatoes, chopped carrot, peas and sliced peppers and bring to a boil. Add the shepherd's pie sachet to the mix (you could make your own, I do most times just wanted to use up the packet mix) and bring to a boil.
2. To make the mash peel and cube your potatoes and bring them to a boil in a pan. When soft drain and mash with butter milk salt and pepper to taste.
3. When the mixture is reduced enough but not too dry as it goes in the oven, place in a oven proof dish, cover with the mash (you can spoon the mash on top as I did or use a piping bag) and grated cheese and bake at 180c for 30-40 minutes or until golden brown. Serve with green vegetables like broccoli and top with gravy.

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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