Recipe: Delicious Clean living cottage pie

Clean living cottage pie. Top tip for making Slimming World's cottage pie. The minced beef mixture makes a great filling for a jacket potato too. Ground beef and vegetables in a rich gravy topped with loaded mashed potatoes and cheese.

One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. Clean living cottage pie is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. You can have Clean living cottage pie using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Clean living cottage pie

1. Prepare 2 tbsp of olive oil.
2. Prepare 1 large of chopped onion.
3. Prepare 8 of rashers of bacon with fat cut off.
4. You need 2 cup of diced carrot.
5. Prepare 500 grams of extra lean minced beef.
6. It's 1/2 tsp of sea salt.
7. Prepare 1 tsp of black pepper.
8. Prepare 1 cup of kallo beef stock.
9. You need 2 head of of cauliflower trimmed, cooked till very soft.
10. Prepare 3 of carrots diced, cooked till very soft.
11. You need 2 of sweet potatoes diced, cooked till very soft.

Add olive oil, onions and garlic. A classic British dish is well suited to a cold Maine night. Cottage pie (traditionally made with beef) or shepherd's pie (traditionally made with lamb) is great winter comfort food, particularly if you've spent the day working outdoors and need respite from the elements. At its most basic, cottage pie is a meat pie (or casserole) that is topped with mashed potatoes rather than a pie crust.

Clean living cottage pie instructions

1. Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a large frying pan.
2. Fry the onion for 15 mins until soft.
3. Add bacon and carrots to the pan and fry until bacon is cooked and carrots are soft about 10 mins.
4. Add minced beef to the pan and saute till brown.
5. Season with salt and pepper.
6. Add stock and cook down until 60% has evaporated.
7. Place cooked cauliflower, carrot and sweet potato in a food processor and puree with the remaining olive oil until smooth.
8. Pour minced beef mixture into oven dish.
9. Pour mash over the top.
10. Bake at 200c for 30mins.

After this, it can vary greatly from region to region (or kitchen to kitchen). Sometimes you will see other vegetables like celery, mushrooms, or peas studded through the meat filling. Leftover mashed potatoes are mixed with white cheddar cheese to form the top crust for this British pub-food staple. Ground beef is traditionally used, but lean ground turkey will work, as well. Brown the crust under the broiler for a minute or two, if you like.