Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, traditional cottage pie. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Traditional Cottage Pie is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Traditional Cottage Pie is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
Proper English Cottage Pie is a delicious, very traditional mince pie (beef) topped with mashed potato. Cottage pie is a classic dish that comes from the UK and Ireland. What are the origins of cottage pie? Originally, cottage pie was made as a way to use up leftover meat.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook traditional cottage pie using 23 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Traditional Cottage Pie:
- Get Mince
- Get 1 large onion, chopped
- Prepare 2 tbsp olive oil, extra virgin
- Make ready 300 ml red wine
- Get 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- Prepare 1 tsp mixed dried herbs
- Prepare 1 can chopped tomatoes
- Take 2 medium carrots, sliced
- Make ready 150 grams smoked bacon, chopped
- Make ready 1 tsp worcestershire sauce
- Take Salt
- Get Freshly ground black pepper
- Take 1 tbsp tomato purée
- Prepare 500 grams mince beef
- Make ready Mash
- Get 1 tbsp dijon mustard
- Take 80 grams butter
- Take 4 tbsp full fat milk
- Get 1 kg potatoes, peeled and diced
- Take Water, to boil potatoes
- Take 1 pinch salt
- Prepare Fresh ground black pepper
- Take Grated cheddar cheese
I forgot to dot extra butter on top, but it still came out crisp with adequately brown. Cottage Pie and Shepherd's Pie are both savory meat pies with a crust or topping of mashed potatoes. Traditionally, Shepherd's Pie is made with ground or minced lamb, while a Cottage Pie is made with ground or minced beef. We prefer beef in this house, so the Cottage Pie has always been our preference!
Steps to make Traditional Cottage Pie:
- Add 2 tablespoon of olive oil in a large frying pan and heat the oil over a medium heat. Then add the bacon, fry for 2-3 minutes until bacon is cooked. Remove the bacon and set aside.
- Add the onion, garlic and carrot to the pan to the oil, cook over a medium heat until the vegetables become soft.
- Next add the mince and cook until brown.
- Add the tin tomatoes, purée, wine, mixed herbs, the cooked bacon, the Worcestershire sauce. Season with salt and pepper. Cover with lid and simmer for 30-40 minutes.
- In the meantime, boil the potatoes in salted water until they are soft. About 15 minutes.
- Drain the potatoes well and then mash. Add the mustard, milk and butter. Season with pepper and if needed more salt. (You may add another tbsp of mustard, if you prefer the taste a little stronger).
- When ready, spoon the mince mixture into a casserole dish. Top with the mash and sprinkle with grated cheddar cheese.
- Pre-heat the oven to 190 c / Gas mark 5.
- Bake the pie for 30-35 minutes or until the mash has become golden brown.
- Let it rest for 15 minutes prior to serving.
Traditionally, Shepherd's Pie is made with ground or minced lamb, while a Cottage Pie is made with ground or minced beef. We prefer beef in this house, so the Cottage Pie has always been our preference! Why is Cottage Pie called "Cottage Pie?" DIRECTIONS. Remove from pan and set aside. Drain most of the accumulated fat from the pan.
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