How to Make Perfect Cottage pie

Cottage pie
Cottage pie

Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, cottage pie. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Cottage pie is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Cottage pie is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook 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. Get 2 Tbsp olive oil
  3. Make ready 2 small onion grated
  4. Make ready 2 small carrots grated
  5. Take 3 cloves garlic grated
  6. Get 2 Tbsp Worceshire sauce
  7. Prepare 2 Oxo cubes (beef stock cubes)
  8. Make ready 300 ml warm water
  9. Make ready 3 Tbsp tomato puree
  10. Take 200 ml red wine
  11. Take 1 Tsp rosemary (dry)
  12. Prepare 1 Tsp Thymes (dry)
  13. Get 2 Tbsp hot chilli powder (optional)
  14. Prepare Mashed potatoes top
  15. Prepare 500-550 g floury potatoes cut to medium -small chunk (same size)
  16. Take 50 g butter
  17. Take 100 milk
  18. Get 2 egg yolks
  19. Prepare 2 + Tbsp grated Parmesan cheese
  20. Make ready Seasoning
  21. Make ready Grated Parmesan cheese to top
  22. Get Salt & black pepper

What are the origins of cottage pie? Originally, cottage pie was made as a way to use up leftover meat. A pie dish would be lined at the sides and bottom with mashed potato. Heat the oil in a large frying pan over medium high heat.

Steps 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

A pie dish would be lined at the sides and bottom with mashed potato. Heat the oil in a large frying pan over medium high heat. Add the onion, garlic and carrot and cook over a medium heat until soft. Add the mince and cook to brown. Put the mince mixture in a baking dish and spoon the mash over the top.

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