Recipe: Appetizing Cottage Pie

Cottage Pie. Proper English Cottage Pie is a delicious, very traditional mince pie (beef) topped with mashed potato. Cottage pie is a combination of ground lamb or beef with mashed potatoes, topped with a bubbling layer of cheese is the perfect comfort food. Boil the potatoes until soft and mash them with the milk until smooth and creamy.

We used potato slices, which saves time and looks good, too. For a shepherd's pie, use lamb. Cottage Pie and Shepherd's Pie are both savory meat pies with a crust or topping of mashed potatoes. You can have Cottage Pie using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Cottage Pie

1. Prepare 400 g of minced beef.
2. You need 1 of onion.
3. You need 1/2 of celery.
4. You need 200 ml of soup stock.
5. It's 1 Tbsp of worcestershire sauce.
6. Prepare of Salt and pepper.
7. Prepare 4 of potatoes.
8. It's 100 ml of milk.
9. You need 50 g of butter or margarine.
10. You need of salt and pepper.

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?" Cottage pie is a meat pie that is topped with mashed potatoes and baked in the oven. Now, cottage pie and shepherd's pie differ only in the type of ground meat they are made with.

Cottage Pie instructions

1. Preheat the oven at 180°C/350°F. Chop the onion and celery into small pieces. Peel the potatoes and cut into small pieces to boil until they become soft..
2. To make the mash potatoes, first put the milk, butter or margarine, salt and pepper into a small pot and mix well until the butter has melted into a sauce. Then add the boiled potatoes and mash until the texture is smooth and creamy..
3. Fry and brown the minced meat in a frying pan, add the chopped vegetables and fry for a min or two on a medium heat. Then add the soup stock, Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper and simmer for 3 min..
4. Put the cooked minced meat into a oven proof dish and spread the mash potatoes over the mince as evenly as possible. Finally, bake in the oven for 30 min or until the mash potato has browned. Enjoy this dish piping hot!.

At its most basic, cottage pie is a meat pie (or casserole) that is topped with mashed potatoes rather than a pie crust. 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. Cottage Pie is a One-Pot Meal, so technically, you do not need to serve anything with it. However, if you like to have more options on the table, consider serving it with: Irish Soda Bread, Chopped Apple Salad, Guinness Ice Cream Floats, Irish Pub Cheese and Crackers, and/or Baileys Irish Cream Jello Shots!