My Family’s Cottage Pie
My Family’s Cottage Pie

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This Cottage Pie Recipe is cheesy and delicious. A comforting and simple cottage pie recipe. Once you try Mum's Traditional Cottage Pie you won't have it any other way - Family Approved.

My Family’s Cottage Pie is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. My Family’s Cottage Pie is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have my family’s cottage pie using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make My Family’s Cottage Pie:
  1. Get 1 tablespoon Canola Oil
  2. Take 1 Onion *finely chopped
  3. Prepare 1-2 cloves Garlic *finely chopped
  4. Make ready 1 Carrot *cut into Peas & Corn size
  5. Make ready 1 Celery Sticks *finely chopped
  6. Make ready 500 g Beef Mince
  7. Get 1 (*about 200g) Beef Steak *cut into 1.5cm pieces
  8. Make ready Salt & Black Pepper
  9. Prepare 2 tablespoons Plain Flour
  10. Get 1 cup Beef Stock
  11. Make ready 2 tablespoons Tomato Paste
  12. Take 1 tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce (Lea & Perrins)
  13. Take 1/4 cup Frozen Peas
  14. Prepare 1/4 cup Frozen Corn
  15. Take <Mashed Potato>
  16. Get 800 g to 1kg Potatoes *peeled & chopped
  17. Take Salt & Pepper
  18. Take 30 g Butter
  19. Take 1/2 cup Milk

This Cottage Pie is a slimming friendly version of a weeknight classic. Great for calorie counting, plans like Weight Watchers and the whole family! I added a few things to tailor the recipe to my family's personal tastes and it turned out great. This Cheesy Cottage Pie is chock-full of vegetables and a rich beef gravy, then topped with a layer of super smooth and creamy cheddar mashed potatoes.

Instructions to make My Family’s Cottage Pie:
  1. Heat Oil in a frying pan over medium-high heat. Cook Onion, Garlic, Carrot and Celery for 2-3 minutes. Add all Beef and cook, stirring and breaking up lumps, for 5 minutes.
  2. Add the Flour and cook, stirring, until combined, then add Stock, Tomato Paste and Worcestershire Sauce. Bring to the boil and reduce heat to simmer, stirring occasionally, cook until sauce thickens. Add Peas and Corn, season with Salt and Pepper.
  3. Meanwhile, cook Potatoes in a separate saucepan of salted water until tender. Drain well. Return to the saucepan and add Butter. Use a potato masher to mash until smooth. Add Milk and stir until well combined. Taste and season with Salt and Pepper.
  4. Preheat the oven to 220C. Spoon the mixture into a large baking dish. Cover with the mashed potato and use a fork to spread over and make a pattern.
  5. Bake in the preheated oven for 15-20 minutes or until mashed potato is slightly browned. Serve immediately.

This Cheesy Cottage Pie tastes even better as leftovers, and I'm not ashamed to admit that I ate it for lunch, then dinner, and then breakfast the next. Cottage pie is a delicious variation of the classic shepherd's pie, and it's fairly simple to make at home! Use beef, rather than lamb, and fill your pie with sautéed onions, carrots, and celery. Cottage Pie uses ground beef, while Shepherd's Pie uses ground lamb. I called this recipe Shepherd's Pie.

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