Cottage Pie Meal
Cottage Pie Meal

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, cottage pie meal. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have cottage pie meal using 20 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie Meal:
  1. Prepare 200 g beef mince
  2. Prepare 1 cup bread crumbs
  3. Get 1 egg
  4. Prepare 1/2 onion chopped
  5. Take 1/2 green pepper chopped
  6. Make ready 1 tsp Garlic and ginger paste
  7. Prepare 1 tblsp BBQ spice and 1 tblsp peri-peri spice
  8. Prepare Mash
  9. Get 3 medium sized potatoes
  10. Make ready 40 ml milk
  11. Make ready 10 g butter
  12. Prepare Mixed herbs
  13. Make ready Sides
  14. Take Half Butternut (peeled and chopped up)
  15. Prepare 3 large carrots (peeled and sliced up)
  16. Take Rice
  17. Take 250 ml rice
  18. Make ready Turmeric
  19. Make ready 2 sticks stick cinnamon
  20. Make ready to taste Salt

Our own minced beef, slow-cooked with red wine, thyme, celery and carrots, covered with buttery mash and topped with a mustard seed crumb. Cottage pie was originally an old English recipe invented as a way to make the leftover meat from a Sunday roast go further Topped with mash and baked this provided an extra meal for families. Make it special with Mary Berry's dauphinoise topped cottage pie, or keep it simple with James James Martin's easy cottage pie recipe is a family favourite. He goes back to basics to show you how.

Steps to make Cottage Pie Meal:
  1. Put the rice in a pot, covered in 400ml water. Add the turmeric and stick cinnamon (with some salt to taste) and allow it to cook until ready.
  2. Put the peeled and chopped Butternut and carrots in a mini pot and cover with water (with some salt to taste) and cook until veggies are soft enough to be poked with a fork.
  3. Peel and chop up the potatoes and follow the same procedure as mentioned above.
  4. Rinse the mince and place it in a pirex/glass dish. Add the chopped onion and green pepper and then add the egg. Add bread crumbs and thereafter mix thoroughly adding spices as desired.
  5. Use a tblsp of oil to line the pie dish around the ends of the pie so that it doesn't turn dry whilst in the oven.
  6. Place the cottage pie in the oven and allow to cook until mince is brown.
  7. Once rice is done place it in a strainer and rinse with clean cold water. Once that is done, sprinkle rice with 3 tblsp of sugar and ensure that sugar is evenly distributed.
  8. Once veggies are soft enough to be poked with a fork remove them from the stove and place in another strainer, rinse with cold water and follow the same procedure as mentioned above.
  9. Once potatoes are soft, take it off the stove. Rinse with cold water and place it back onto the stove. Add the butter and milk and mash it with a fork. Do add some peri-peri spice/fisherman spice to give the mash some flavour.
  10. Once the mince has browned in the oven cover the pie with the mash and decorate it with a fork. Sprinkle the mixed herbs over and place it back into the oven for approx. 10/15 minutes. When cottage pie is ready, the meal can be served as intended.

The sauce is really simple and flavourful, but the best part is the insanely fluffy mashed potato topping. The whole dish is pretty much the definition of comfort food. Cottage pie is a traditional English dish made with minced beef, topped with mashed potatoes and baked. Great as a warm meal on chilly autumn/winter nights. What most people call a shepherd's pie.

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