Cottage pie
Cottage pie

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, cottage pie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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.

Cottage pie is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Cottage pie is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have cottage pie using 22 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Cottage pie:
  1. Prepare 500 g minced beef
  2. Take 2 Tbsp olive oil
  3. Take 2 small onion grated
  4. Take 2 small carrots grated
  5. Get 3 cloves garlic grated
  6. Prepare 2 Tbsp Worceshire sauce
  7. Take 2 Oxo cubes (beef stock cubes)
  8. Take 300 ml warm water
  9. Get 3 Tbsp tomato puree
  10. Prepare 200 ml red wine
  11. Get 1 Tsp rosemary (dry)
  12. Get 1 Tsp Thymes (dry)
  13. Get 2 Tbsp hot chilli powder (optional)
  14. Get Mashed potatoes top
  15. Make ready 500-550 g floury potatoes cut to medium -small chunk (same size)
  16. Make ready 50 g butter
  17. Take 100 milk
  18. Take 2 egg yolks
  19. Get 2 + Tbsp grated Parmesan cheese
  20. Get Seasoning
  21. Take Grated Parmesan cheese to top
  22. Prepare Salt & black pepper

Wonderful cottage pie reminds me of the meals I had in my British school's canteen. 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.

Instructions to make Cottage pie:
  1. Heat up the oven at 190 c or 200 c for Halogen oven.
  2. Heat up the pan with olive oil and brown the minced beef. Season with salt & pepper.
  3. Add grated onion, carrots and garlic.
  4. Add worceshire sauce, tomato puree, rosemary and thymes. Stir them and let them cook. Don’t forget to season with salt & pepper.
  5. Pour in the red wine and reduce until almost completely evaporated. Add the oxo cubes and water, simmer until the sauce has thickened.
  6. When we reducing the sauce, cook the potatoes with high heat from cold salted water until the water are boiling. Reduce to low heat, close the lid for 8 -10 minutes. Drain them in colander and leave them dry for 5 minutes. Then return them to the pan. Mash them. Leave them to one side and add milk and butter in the pan. Season with salt & pepper.
  7. Heat the milk & butter. When the butter are melted. Mix the mashed potatoes in milk & butter. Turn off the heat. beat in the egg yolks, followed by about 2 tbsp grated Parmesan. Mix them up. Check for seasoning.
  8. Now we are ready to assemble. Add all beef sauce in the bowl (oven bowl or Pyrex bowl). Then add mashed potatoes on top. Season with salt, pepper and grated parmesan cheese on top of mashed potatoes. Don’t forget to fluff the top of mashed potatoes before putting in the oven.
  9. Bake in the oven for approximately 18-20 minutes, until bubbling and golden brown. I baked them in halogen oven for 30 minutes.
  10. Now, it’s ready yo be served

Cottage pie is actually older than shepherd's pie. Potatoes were affordable ingredients that were often used by the peasants, who lived in cottages. Why is it called cottage pie? It originated when the potato was being introduced as a cheap food for the poor, and the dish was popular among the people living in modest cottages. Cottage pie is a cheap and nutritious option for a family Sunday dinner.

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