Cottage Pie
Cottage Pie

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, cottage pie. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Read Customer Reviews & Find Best Sellers. 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.

Cottage Pie is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Cottage Pie is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook cottage pie using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:
  1. Get 8 medium sized potatoes
  2. Prepare 1/2 kg ground beef or lamb
  3. Get 2 carrots, diced
  4. Take 1 can green peas
  5. Take 1 can mushrooms, sliced
  6. Make ready 4 cloves garlic
  7. Take 1 onion
  8. Get 1 small box cheese, cut into cubes
  9. Prepare 1 small stick butter
  10. Prepare 500 grams spaghetti sauce
  11. Make ready 3 tablespoons oyster sauce
  12. Prepare to taste salt, sugar and pepper
  13. Get 1 small can evaporated milk
  14. Get Green bell peppers (optional)
  15. Make ready Spiced ham, diced and cooked

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 actually older than shepherd's pie. Potatoes were affordable ingredients that were often used by the peasants, who lived in cottages.

Instructions to make Cottage Pie:
  1. Boil potatoes in a pot until soft/cooked. Peel once cool enough to handle. Mash while adding milk and half of the butter. Set aside for later.
  2. Cook garlic until golden brown. Using the same pan, cook onions until translucent. Set aside.
  3. Cook ground beef for 15-20 minutes or until brown. Mix cooked garlic, onions and remaining butter. Add carrots and mushrooms. Add spaghetti sauce, green peas, and cubed cheese (leave some to grate and use for topping later). You may also add green bell peppers and cooked spiced ham if you want. Simmer for 15 minutes or until carrots are cooked.
  4. In an oven-safe dish or bowl, put meat sauce and on top of it, layer prepared mashed potato mixture. Sprinkle with grated cheese and pop in the oven for 10 minutes at 350°.

Wonderful cottage pie reminds me of the meals I had in my British school's canteen. I followed the recipe for everything except the green peas coz I do not have them on hand. I use a bigger onion instead. I forgot to dot extra butter on top but it still came out crisp with adequately brown. A traditional cottage pie is made with ground beef and topped with mashed potatoes.

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