Recipe: Tasty English Cottage Pie

English Cottage Pie. Proper English Cottage Pie is a delicious, very traditional mince pie (beef) topped with mashed potato. Always freeze the pie on the day that you make it. Defrost in the fridge overnight, then cook as per the recipe.

It comes from the United Kingdom and Ireland. The dish is now popular worldwide. Cottage Pie - comfort food central! You can cook English Cottage Pie using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of English Cottage Pie

1. You need 1 kg of King Edward Potatoes.
2. You need 500 grams of Lean Steak Mince Meat.
3. You need 6 tbsp of Milk.
4. It's 3 of White Mushrooms.
5. You need 2 tbsp of Butter.
6. Prepare 1 of Green Bell Pepper.
7. Prepare 1 of Carrott.
8. Prepare 1 clove of Garlic.
9. You need 1/2 of Red Onion.
10. Prepare 400 ml of Beef Stock.
11. Prepare 100 grams of Grated Cheese.

This English classic has a deeply savoury beef mince filling Cottage Pie is a fabulous English classic, one that us Aussies have adopted as one of our beloved. The difference between Shepherd's Pie and Cottage Pie is the meat. Cottage Pie uses ground beef I called this recipe Shepherd's Pie. But, I wrote the recipe so that you could use ground beef or.

English Cottage Pie instructions

1. Preheat oven to No 5.
2. Peel & boil potatoes, drain potatoes in collinder, then add milk & butter to pot, reheat until butter has melted. place boiled potatoes back in pot and mash well.
3. Chop onion, mushroom, pepper & carrotts, crush garlic.
4. In new pot add olive oil bring to low heat, add carrotts, onion, pepper, mushrooms & garlic fry for 5 mins.
5. Add lean mince meat & beef stock to onion, mushroom & carrott mix pot. stir well & cook until meat is brown, 15 mins.
6. Place meat mixture into oven baking dish, cover with mash potatoes & sprinkle over grated cheese.
7. Place on middle oven shelf for 30 mins until surface is golden brown.

Make it special with Mary Berry's dauphinoise topped cottage pie, or keep it simple with James James Martin's easy cottage pie recipe is a family favourite. He goes back to basics to show you how. My husband is a Brit and he LOVED this pie. The only thing I did differently was to put it into a prebaked pie shell. Home made cottage pie recipe is very easy to prepare and cook.