Cottage Pie. For this savory pie, ground beef, onions, veggies, herbs and spices marry perfectly: Everything is sauteed together and then combined with broth and tomato paste, and simmered until ready to pour into a prepared pie crust. The hearty filling is then topped with fluffy mashed potatoes, sprinkled with Cheddar cheese, and baked. Classic Cottage Pie Cottage pie is a combination of ground lamb or beef with mashed potatoes, topped with a bubbling layer of cheese is the perfect comfort food.
I use a bigger onion instead.
I forgot to dot extra butter on top but it still came out crisp with adequately brown.
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.
You can have Cottage Pie using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Cottage Pie
- You need 500 g of minced meat.
- Prepare 1 of chopped onion.
- It's 1 of peeled chopped carrot.
- Prepare 1 of beef stock cube.
- It's of Seasoning.
- It's 3 of medium sized potatoes.
- It's of Cheese.
- You need of Breadcrumbs.
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.
Cottage Pie instructions
- Set the oven to 180°C/450°F.
- Heat the oil in a pan, add the onion and cook over a medium heat for 5 minutes. Add the carrot and cover the pan, cook a further 5 minutes..
- Remove the vegetables from the pan. Heat up the pan again to the same heat, add the meat and cook until lightly browned underneath then turn it in the pan and cook for another few minutes..
- Sprinkle in the flour, stir well to coat the meat, and brown then add the puree, sauce, herbs and stock. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 10-15 minutes.
- Stir in the stock cube then sprinkle in the seasoning, bring to the boil then reduce the heat and simmer for about 10 to 15 minutes.
- Spoon the mixture into the pie dish, smooth the surface then carefully put spoonfuls of mash round the edge and then the middle.
- Bake the shepherd's pie for 30–40 minutes until the top is golden brown.
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. There are many variations of the recipe, but the defining ingredients include minced or ground beef with onions (and sometimes other vegetables) in. Cottage pie is proper comfort food.
