How to Make Yummy English Cottage Pie

English Cottage Pie. Get Ready For The Holidays With A Picture Perfect Dessert. Proper English Cottage Pie is a delicious, very traditional mince pie (beef) topped with mashed potato. Leftover mashed potatoes are mixed with white cheddar cheese to form the top crust for this British pub-food staple.

A simple, beef-filled version of the classic English cottage pie includes peas, carrots, onion, and garlic topped with cheesy mashed potatoes. Cottage pie is one of the classics of a British classic kitchen. It is known for being a hearty, filling, and warming food and although often thought of as a winter dish, it is perfect any time of year. You can have English Cottage Pie using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of English Cottage Pie

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

Don't be put off by the number of ingredients in this recipe—making this pie is well worth the effort. Melt the butter in a pan on a medium heat. Cottage pie is simple to make, but the thing is, when you make cottage pie, the minced beef sauce layer needs to have cooled. If it's piping hot, the mashed potatoes will sink into the sauce and you'll end up with a one-layered dish.

English Cottage Pie step by step

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.

If you let it cool, you'll end up with the perfect cottage pie! There are many variations of the recipe, but the defining ingredients include minced or ground beef with onions (and sometimes other vegetables) in a gravy. Cottage pie, like its opposite lamb number, Shepherd's pie, was the ingenious idea of housewives many years ago, in order to create another warm and comforting meal usually from the Sunday Lunch left-overs! Cooked beef or lamb were diced or shredded and sometimes the vegetables were added to the meat mixture - such as peas or carrots. This recipe uses raw minced beef, but you could use minced.