Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, cottage pie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Cottage Pie is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Cottage Pie is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
Always freeze the pie on the day that you make it. Defrost in the fridge overnight, then cook as per the recipe. Classic, epic Cottage Pie made properly, with a luscious filling.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook cottage pie using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:
- Make ready For the mash
- Prepare 2.5 Kg Maris Piper potatoes
- Make ready 150 ml double cream
- Get 300 ml milk
- Make ready 3-4 knobs butter
- Prepare Pinch salt
- Make ready Pinch pepper
- Get Pinch nutmeg
- Make ready For the filling
- Get 750 g beef mince
- Make ready 50 g peas
- Make ready 3 tbsp olive oil
- Take 2 large knobs of salted butter
- Prepare 1 tbsp paprika
- Get Sprinkle of chilli powder
- Get For the topping
- Take 400 g medium cheddar cheese, grated
- Get To serve
- Get Savoy cabbage
- Take 600 ml gravy
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Steps to make Cottage Pie:
- Peel the potatoes and put them in a saucepan with water and a pinch of salt, and boil. This should take about 30-40 minutes.
- While the potatoes are cooking, add the oil and butter to a saucepan on a medium/high heat, and once the oil starts sizzling - add the mince and break it all apart so all the meat in separated. Fry until browned and the liquid fat has been cooked off. Add the peas.
- To check the potatoes are cooked, try and pick one up by stabbing it with a knife. If it falls off the knife with ease, the potatoes are done. Drain and mash, gradually adding milk, butter and cream where necessary. Add the salt, pepper and nutmeg… mash until there are no lumps.
- In a large oven dish, spread the mince filling across the bottom, until level. Repeat with the mash. Top with the cheese and bake in a preheated oven (150°C) until the cheese is golden brown. Serve immediately with gravy and savoy cabbage.
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