Cottage pie
Cottage pie

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, cottage pie. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Cottage pie is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Cottage pie is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

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.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have cottage pie using 22 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Cottage pie:
  1. Get 500 g minced beef
  2. Get 2 Tbsp olive oil
  3. Make ready 2 small onion grated
  4. Take 2 small carrots grated
  5. Make ready 3 cloves garlic grated
  6. Prepare 2 Tbsp Worceshire sauce
  7. Prepare 2 Oxo cubes (beef stock cubes)
  8. Get 300 ml warm water
  9. Take 3 Tbsp tomato puree
  10. Take 200 ml red wine
  11. Take 1 Tsp rosemary (dry)
  12. Take 1 Tsp Thymes (dry)
  13. Make ready 2 Tbsp hot chilli powder (optional)
  14. Prepare Mashed potatoes top
  15. Make ready 500-550 g floury potatoes cut to medium -small chunk (same size)
  16. Take 50 g butter
  17. Take 100 milk
  18. Get 2 egg yolks
  19. Take 2 + Tbsp grated Parmesan cheese
  20. Prepare Seasoning
  21. Make ready Grated Parmesan cheese to top
  22. Get Salt & black pepper

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. I recently served it with this Carrot Salad with a Honey Dijon Dressing which was a hit!.

Instructions to make Cottage pie:
  1. Heat up the oven at 190 c or 200 c for Halogen oven.
  2. Heat up the pan with olive oil and brown the minced beef. Season with salt & pepper.
  3. Add grated onion, carrots and garlic.
  4. Add worceshire sauce, tomato puree, rosemary and thymes. Stir them and let them cook. Don’t forget to season with salt & pepper.
  5. Pour in the red wine and reduce until almost completely evaporated. Add the oxo cubes and water, simmer until the sauce has thickened.
  6. When we reducing the sauce, cook the potatoes with high heat from cold salted water until the water are boiling. Reduce to low heat, close the lid for 8 -10 minutes. Drain them in colander and leave them dry for 5 minutes. Then return them to the pan. Mash them. Leave them to one side and add milk and butter in the pan. Season with salt & pepper.
  7. Heat the milk & butter. When the butter are melted. Mix the mashed potatoes in milk & butter. Turn off the heat. beat in the egg yolks, followed by about 2 tbsp grated Parmesan. Mix them up. Check for seasoning.
  8. Now we are ready to assemble. Add all beef sauce in the bowl (oven bowl or Pyrex bowl). Then add mashed potatoes on top. Season with salt, pepper and grated parmesan cheese on top of mashed potatoes. Don’t forget to fluff the top of mashed potatoes before putting in the oven.
  9. Bake in the oven for approximately 18-20 minutes, until bubbling and golden brown. I baked them in halogen oven for 30 minutes.
  10. Now, it’s ready yo be served

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. 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.

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