How to Make Perfect Cottage pie

Cottage pie. 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.

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. You can cook Cottage pie using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Cottage pie

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

View Suggestions BACK TO TOP See all Scripps Networks Digital. 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.

Cottage pie instructions

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.
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There are many variations of the recipe, but the defining ingredients include minced or ground beef with onions (and sometimes other vegetables) in a 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. Prepared mashed potatoes will help you whip up this classic Cottage Pie with Potato Crust recipe with ease. You can even make up a double batch so you can freeze half for later.

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