Traditional Cottage Pie
Traditional Cottage Pie

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Traditional Cottage Pie is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Traditional Cottage Pie is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

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 particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook traditional cottage pie using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Traditional Cottage Pie:
  1. Take 500 grams minced beef
  2. Make ready 1 medium onion
  3. Take 2 medium carrots
  4. Prepare 2 clove garlic
  5. Take 1 beef oxo
  6. Prepare 2 tbsp Worcester sauce
  7. Make ready 2 tbsp brown sauce
  8. Take 300 ml gravy made up
  9. Make ready 1 big pinch of mixed herbs
  10. Prepare 6 large potatoes
  11. Take 75 ml milk
  12. Take 50 grams butter

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!

Instructions to make Traditional Cottage Pie:
  1. boil the potatoes until you can cut easily with a knife
  2. mostly brown mince off in a pan
  3. dice onion and carrots. crush garlic. add to the mince. crumble oxo over and finish off browning the mince
  4. add both sauces, herbs, garlic and gravy. simmer
  5. drain the potatoes and leave to steam for 5 mins to make fluffy mash
  6. pour mince into a deep casserole dish
  7. add butter and milk to the potatoes and mash until all the lumps have gone
  8. clip the end of the pipping bag and spoon in the mash. remove clip and pipe one even layer of mash then a layer of spikes
  9. place under a grill/broiler until peaks brown
  10. if you don't have a pipping bag just spoon on the mash and spike up with a fork

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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