Recipe: Perfect Cottage Pie

Cottage Pie. Find Deals on Cottage Pie in Groceries on Amazon. 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.

It's a good remedy for the winter chills.—Shannon Copley, Upper Arlington, Ohio Husband said it was the best cottage pie he's ever had! I made the recipe as written except I upped the garlic and added a couple handfuls of frozen peas to the mince just before blanketing it all with the. Wonderful cottage pie reminds me of the meals I had in my British school's canteen. You can have Cottage Pie using 24 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Cottage Pie

1. Prepare of meat mixture.
2. It's 1 tbsp of butter.
3. It's 1 tbsp of olive oil, extra virgin.
4. Prepare 1 lb of ground beef.
5. It's 1 cup of onion, chopped.
6. You need 2 tbsp of garlic, minced.
7. You need 1 1/2 tbsp of dry rosemary.
8. It's of salt.
9. Prepare 1 tbsp of ground cumin.
10. It's 4 tsp of worcestershire sauce.
11. It's 1 tbsp of ketchup.
12. It's 1 tsp of cayenne pepper.
13. Prepare 1/3 cup of all-purpose flour.
14. You need 1 1/2 cup of beef broth.
15. Prepare 1 cup of frozen peas.
16. You need 1 cup of frozen carrots.
17. You need of potato topping.
18. You need 6 of medium purple potatoes.
19. You need 1 tbsp of butter.
20. Prepare 1/3 cup of heavy cream.
21. It's 1/2 cup of pepper jack cheese.
22. You need 1/2 cup of cheddar cheese.
23. It's 1 of egg, beaten.
24. You need of salt.

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. There are many variations of the recipe, but the defining ingredients include minced or ground beef with onions (and sometimes other vegetables) in.

Cottage Pie instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375°F..
2. In a deep sauce pan add in butter and oil on medium heat..
3. Add in the onions, garlic, and beef, and saute for 10 minutes until beef is cooked through..
4. Add in flour and mix; the flour will absorb the extra moisture to create a gravy later..
5. Cook for another 3-4 minutes to cook off the flours raw edge and add in the below seasoning ingredients..
6. Add in broth, cook and stir until sauce has thicken (about 5 minutes)..
7. Stir in frozen veggies, and remove from heat..
8. Add meat and veggie filling into a baking dish... Be sure to flatten your meat mixture in the dish..
9. Meanwhile boil your potatoes until fork tender..
10. Then add in butter, heavy cream, cheese, seasoning, & egg yoke. Mash and mix well..
11. Using a large spoon, place dollops of potatoes over your meat filling, then using a fork, gently spread potatoes evenly across the meat filling. Doing it this way will help from pulling the meat up & mixing it into the potato crust..
12. Bake in oven for 30 minutes until the sides have brown..
13. Remove baking dish from oven and let cool for 10-15 minutes before serving..

Cottage pie is actually older than shepherd's pie. Potatoes were affordable ingredients that were often used by the peasants, who lived in cottages. Cottage pie is a meat pie that is topped with mashed potatoes and baked in the oven. Now, cottage pie and shepherd's pie differ only in the type of ground meat they are made with. This is a meat and carb heavy dish, so it goes really well with fresh side salads like a Rocket Salad with Balsamic Dressing, or a Garden Salad with French or Italian Dressing.