Cottage Pie
Cottage Pie

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

Proper English Cottage Pie is a delicious, very traditional mince pie (beef) topped with mashed potato. Wonderful cottage pie, reminds me of the meals I had in my British school's canteen. I followed the recipe for everything except the green peas coz I do not have them on hand. I use a bigger onion instead.

Cottage Pie is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Cottage Pie is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have cottage pie using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:
  1. Make ready Left over mince curry or braised
  2. Take Boiled macaroni
  3. Prepare 3 boiled potatoes
  4. Prepare Cheese
  5. Get Pepper
  6. Make ready Spices such as salt and chillie powder
  7. Prepare 2 table spoon Butter
  8. Prepare 1 cup milk
  9. Take Cake flour
  10. Make ready Hot sauce
  11. Make ready Half teaspoon salt
  12. Get Oil

For a shepherd's pie, use lamb. Boil the potatoes until soft and mash them with the milk until smooth and creamy. Spoon the meat mixture into a gratin dish and cover with a thick, even layer of mashed potato. This is a meat and carb heavy dish, so it goes really well with fresh side salads like a Rocket Salad with Balsamic Dressing, or a Garden Salad with French or Italian Dressing.

Steps to make Cottage Pie:
  1. Add pepper and spices to the left over mince. Bring the mince to the stove and add in some butter (i used braised left over mince)left it cook for a while till butter has melted
  2. Boil your potatoes and make mash with it
  3. Boil your macaroni with some oil and salt then drain out the water
  4. On the stove boil some milk add in cake flour and hot sauce and add bbq spices,mixed herbs and what ever other spices you have in your cupboard/fridge. Mix till you get a thick sauce.
  5. In a caserol or dish lay out your macaroni, then put mash on top of it and then layer the mash with the mince
  6. Pour your sauce over the mince and layer with cheese. Put it in the oven on low eat for thw cheese to melt.
  7. Enjoy with sauce
  9. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

Spoon the meat mixture into a gratin dish and cover with a thick, even layer of mashed potato. This is a meat and carb heavy dish, so it goes really well with fresh side salads like a Rocket Salad with Balsamic Dressing, or a Garden Salad with French or Italian Dressing. I recently served it with this Carrot Salad with a Honey Dijon Dressing which was a hit!. For a cosy meal on a cold winter night, try it with a side of Glazed Roasted Carrots and Sautéed. Why is it called cottage pie?

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