Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, cottage pie. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Cottage Pie is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Cottage Pie is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook cottage pie using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:
- Prepare For the mash
- Take 2.5 Kg Maris Piper potatoes
- Get 150 ml double cream
- Make ready 300 ml milk
- Take 3-4 knobs butter
- Prepare Pinch salt
- Take Pinch pepper
- Get Pinch nutmeg
- Make ready For the filling
- Make ready 750 g beef mince
- Get 50 g peas
- Get 3 tbsp olive oil
- Prepare 2 large knobs of salted butter
- Make ready 1 tbsp paprika
- Get Sprinkle of chilli powder
- Take For the topping
- Get 400 g medium cheddar cheese, grated
- Get To serve
- Take Savoy cabbage
- Get 600 ml gravy
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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