Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, my two potato cottage pie. 😘. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
My two potato Cottage Pie. 😘 is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. My two potato Cottage Pie. 😘 is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
The only difference is a cottage pie is made with beef, whereas a shepherd's pie is made with lamb. Years ago a cottage pie was made with a topping of scalloped potatoes, rather than mash. The scallops resembled the roof tiles on a cottage, which is where the name comes from.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook my two potato cottage pie. 😘 using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make My two potato Cottage Pie. 😘:
- Get 1 kg Minced Beef
- Get 1 tbls Butter, may need a little more when the beef mince added
- Prepare 3/4 of A medium Onion
- Take 1/2 Cup Peas
- Get 1 tbls Balsamic Vinegar
- Get 1 tsp Black cracked pepper
- Take 1/2 tsp pepper flakes
- Get 2 dried Beef stock cubes
- Get 1 veg Stock cube
- Prepare 3/4 pint boiling water
- Get 2 tbls Cornflour in 1/4 Cup cold water
- Make ready Potatoes to make mash on top
- Get 1 tbls Butter
When it begins to shimmer, add the onion, bell pepper, a pinch of salt and a few grinds of pepper. "Make a vegetable 'cottage pie' using odd bits from the fridge and cupboard. In a pan, warm a tablespoon of olive oil and slowly sweat garlic or garlic puree and onions with a pinch of salt. This Cottage Pie is made from scratch, and it's very straightforward. If you can make Bolognese and mashed potato, you can make Cottage Pie because it essentially follows the same steps!
Instructions to make My two potato Cottage Pie. 😘:
- Dice the Onion then add to melted butter on frying pan. When the onions have cooked for one minute add the Beef mince and turn it over gently and cook on low heat for 10 minutes
- Turn the beef all over until all coloured then add the peas, Peppers Balsamic vinegar stir in until all mixed
- Add the 2 beef and 1 veg stock cube crumbled in the Mince then add the Boiling Water stir to mix. Let it simmer for 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile peel and add potatoes to boil and mash. I have boiled maris piper for mashed potato and Sweet potato to mash. I did this because 3 of us like sweet mashed potato but the other 2 persons only like white potato mash. The other person likes both. Haha.
- Thicken the meat with the cornfkour and a little cold water and mix until thicker add more if its not thick enough. Then add it to a quite big roasting dish. My dish is 8x6 inch. 3inch deep. Half all the ingredients to make a smaller one.
- Let the potatoes cool a bit then add on top of the minced beef
- Adding the potato on top make sure its about 2 inches of potato mash on top. The beef which if thick holds the potato on top. Then add to a preheated oven 180°C 15 - 20 minutes. Put under a grill for 5 minutes when cooked for extra criso on top.
Remove from the oven, allow to cool for a few minutes, and serve. *Note: I love to make roasted garlic…on the stove. I always have my stovetop roasted garlic and the resulting garlic oil on hand to amp up any recipe at a moment's notice. Why is it called cottage pie? It originated when the potato was being introduced as a cheap food for the poor, and the dish was popular among the people living in modest cottages. Place all ingredients, except the potatoes, in a large saucepan & bring to a boil.
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