Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, cottage pie. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have cottage pie using 14 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie:
- Prepare 6 potatoes
- Make ready 1 tablespoon margarine or butter
- Make ready 450 g beef mince
- Get 1 large onion
- Make ready 2 small carrots
- Make ready 2 sticks celery
- Take 1 teaspoon vegetable bullion powder (marigold)
- Make ready 1 beef stock cube (oxo)
- Prepare 2 tablespoons beef instant gravy granules (bistro)
- Get 4 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- Make ready Pinch salt
- Make ready Sprinkle mixed dried herbs (herbs de Provence)
- Take Black pepper
- Make ready Cheddar Cheese
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Instructions to make Cottage Pie:
- Dice the onions and slice the carrots thinly. Fry on a medium heat with a little oil season with mixed dried herbs, salt and pepper.
- Thinly slice the celery sticks and add to the frying pan.
- Once the onion starts to soften after about 10 minutes add the minced beef. Break it up into smaller chunks with a fork or spatula.
- While the beef is browning off peel the spuds and chop them into small chunks. Cover with water and boil on high.
- To prepare the liquor put the kettle on to boil. add the vegetable bullion beef stock cube, gravy granules and Worcestershire sauce to a measuring jug.
- Pour on boiling water and make up to a pint.
- Pour as much of the liquor into the meat as will fit, simmer to reduce… top up as necessary.
- Once the potatoes are nice and soft (20-25 mins) drain, add the margarine or butter and mash thoroughly.
- Pour the meat and vegetables into an oven proof dish. Cover with mash potatoes using a fork, try to keep it really fluffy and make lots of peeks so the top gets crispy.
- Cook in the oven for 20 minutes at 200 Degrees C
- Cover with grated cheddar and return to the oven for 10 mins
- It’s done… plate up and enjoy.
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