My Version of Cottage Pie 😙
My Version of Cottage Pie 😙

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, my version of cottage pie 😙. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

My Version of Cottage Pie 😙 is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. My Version of Cottage Pie 😙 is something that I have loved my whole life.

Make sure the pie is completely cold, then cover it well with cling film and freeze. Always freeze the pie on the day that you make it. Cottage Pie - comfort food central!

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook my version of cottage pie 😙 using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make My Version of Cottage Pie 😙:
  1. Get 1 tbls olive oil
  2. Take 21 +1/2 small onions diced
  3. Make ready 500 g Minced Beef
  4. Prepare 1/2 Cup frozen peas
  5. Make ready 1/2 Cup Grated Cheese
  6. Prepare 1 Tsp mixed peppercorns cracked
  7. Get 1/4 tsp chilli salt
  8. Take 2 Dried Beef Cubes
  9. Get 1 Dried Veg Cube
  10. Take 1 +1/2 tsp Cornflour mix in A little cold water
  11. Take Enough Potatoes for 4 persons
  12. Make ready 1 tbls Butter
  13. Take 4 tbls milk or cream

Check out my tip for ensuring also get a jug of delicious gravy to pour on top. Recently, there has been a tendency for cottage pie to be made from minced beef, and shepherd's pie to be made from minced lamb, although historically there was no such differentiation. This Cheesy Cottage Pie is chock-full of vegetables and a rich beef gravy, then topped with a layer of super smooth and creamy cheddar mashed potatoes. This Cheesy Cottage Pie tastes even better as leftovers, and I'm not ashamed to admit that I ate it for lunch, then dinner, and then breakfast the next.

Steps to make My Version of Cottage Pie 😙:
  1. Add the olive oil to a deep frying pan. Add 1 onion diced to the pan fry for 1 minute then add the cracked Peppercorns Garlic too. Mix in then add the Minced Beef. Fry until beef goes from red to brownish.
  2. Next Add the peas and mix in when it comes to the boil turn down and simmer for 20 minutes stirring occasionally.
  3. Next step add the dried beef +veg cubes crumbled on top of the meat have at least 1 pint boiling water ready add them then add the water stir in until all mixed simmer for 5 minutes more.
  4. Add the Cornflour to a little cold water mix until it goes really thick you can add a little boiled water if it's too thick.
  5. Stir then add to an oven dish with about an inch on top of the meat so as you can add your mashed potato on top. Leave to cool. Or cover and add to the fridge for an hour (so as the mince has a sort of film on top so the mash does not go all the way through the meat.)
  6. Add the potatoes in boiling water and boil until soft right through about 20 minutes.( I have more potatoes on this pic to do another recipe with mash so if it looks alot that's the reason.
  7. When potatoes are boiled drain off the water and add 1 tbls butter and 4 tbls of milk or cream and mix all in until they are fluffy and a little creamy.
  8. Next add the half onion diced into the mashed potato until all mixed. Let them cool for 5 minutes.
  9. When cooked add to a large bowl and Spoon the mash on top of the cold minced Beef evenly all over I add tbls of mash to the rim first then work my way to the middle.
  10. Make lines like ridges to the Top of the mash with a fork so bits stand up. Then add to a a preheated oven 180°C for 20 minutes. Add the grated cheese over to melt then put under a grill so it goes Crisp.
  11. Serve hot.

A version of cottage pie, called St. Stephen's day pie, is made with leftover Christmas turkey and ham to celebrate St. Pate Chinois is a French Canadian version where you will find corn as the vegetable of choice in the meat filling. Originally, cottage pie was a way of eking out a Sunday roast: after the cold cuts, and the ragout, the bones would go into a broth, and the trimmings would be cut up, moistened with gravy, and baked again. Hugh's recipe is faithful to this thrifty, and eminently sensible tradition, but if you're not in the.

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