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.

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.

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I'm gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, cottage pie. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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.

Cottage pie is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it's fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Cottage pie is something which I've loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have cottage pie using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Cottage pie:

{Take 450 g of beef mince.
{Make ready 2 sticks of celery.
{Make ready 2 of medium carrots.
{Get 1 of red onion.
{Take 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
{Make ready 3 tsp of bisto beef gravy granules.
{Make ready 1 tablespoons of tomato puree.
{Get 5 of medium sized Maris Piper potatoes.

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 a gravy.

Steps to make Cottage pie:

Peel and chop the potatoes and put onto boil. These take approx 18mins from reaching the boil. Drain and mash these with a splash of milk and a knob of real butter. Go for a wetter mash as you need to be able to spread it on top of the meat mix later..
Whilst the potato cooks, dice up the onion, celery and carrots and in a separate pan saute these in the vegetable oil..
Once the vegetables have softened a little add the tomato puree. Then add the minced beef to brown. Keep stirring so that any lumps are broken up..
When the meat is browned add in the gravy granules and a little water (about 1/4 pint) to make the mixture wet and gravy coated but not swimming. Spoon this into a n ovenproof dish..
Add the mash to the dish. Spread it out to cover all the meat mixture. You can leave the dish at this point if you need to prepare ahead of mealtime..
When ready to get the meal together put the dish into a 200° oven for approx 30 mins. If you like cheese add some grated cheddar to top the dish for the last 15 mins.
Serve with boiled or steamed vegetables on the side with beef 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. Cottage pie is a meat pie that is topped with mashed potatoes and baked in the oven. Now, cottage pie and shepherd's pie differ only in the type of ground meat they are made with. Shepherd's pie has another name, cottage pie, and mashed potatoes have another alternative - sweet potatoes.

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