Cottage Pie
Cottage Pie

Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, cottage pie. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Cottage Pie is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Cottage Pie is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook cottage pie using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:
  1. Take For the mash
  2. Prepare 2.5 Kg Maris Piper potatoes
  3. Get 150 ml double cream
  4. Prepare 300 ml milk
  5. Prepare 3-4 knobs butter
  6. Take Pinch salt
  7. Make ready Pinch pepper
  8. Get Pinch nutmeg
  9. Take For the filling
  10. Take 750 g beef mince
  11. Make ready 50 g peas
  12. Get 3 tbsp olive oil
  13. Take 2 large knobs of salted butter
  14. Prepare 1 tbsp paprika
  15. Make ready Sprinkle of chilli powder
  16. Take For the topping
  17. Get 400 g medium cheddar cheese, grated
  18. Make ready To serve
  19. Get Savoy cabbage
  20. Take 600 ml gravy
Steps to make Cottage Pie:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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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