Recipe: Delicious cottage pie

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.

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. You can cook cottage pie using 6 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of cottage pie

1. Prepare 2 lb of beef mince.
2. You need 5 large of potatos.
3. It's 1 large of onion.
4. It's 1 can of carrots.
5. You need 1 can of peas.
6. It's 2 of stock oxo,s.

View Suggestions BACK TO TOP See all Scripps Networks Digital. 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.

cottage pie instructions

1. peel potatos, chop and add to water in pan and bring to boil..
2. light fry mince and onion, then add oxo,s and boiling water and stir..
3. simmer potatoes for 15mins, drain and mash with butter..
4. add peas and carrots to mince and stir..
5. preheat oven to gas mark 5.
6. add all the mince mixture to required dish, then place mash on top of mince and evenly spread across the top..
7. place in oven gas mark 5 for 15mins, then once removed from oven serve with choice of your own food..

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. Cottage pie is actually older than shepherd's pie. Potatoes were affordable ingredients that were often used by the peasants, who lived in cottages. Prepared mashed potatoes will help you whip up this classic Cottage Pie with Potato Crust recipe with ease. You can even make up a double batch so you can freeze half for later.