Chicken cottage pie?

Hi ames,

I've never made it but it does sound like a good way to use up leftover chicken.

I had a quick look on google and found these two recipes:

Chicken Cottage Pie

Turkey Cottage Pie (you could substitute the turkey for chicken)


To make ordinary cottage pie, I dry fry some mince and onions. Add some chopped carrots, leeks and whatever other veg I have handy. Then add some worcester sauce, black pepper and a stock cube. Thicken the mixture with a little cornflour mixed in cold water and put into a casserole dish. Top with creamy mashed potatoes (some grated cheese added to them is nice) and pop in the oven until the potatoes are golden.

Pink

Instead of gravy this would work really well with pureed sweetcorn for the sauce.;)
I always add tinned tomatoes to my normal beefy cottage pie, am I alone in doing this? I thought it was normal?!:rolleyes:

ames123 wrote:

Thanks for the help guys! Pink - do I need to use cornflour, as don't think I have any?

Beth - might try that but will put some veg in too.

I meant to have said, my daughter won't eat veg which is why my version doesn't have any in it! If it was me eating it I would probably put carrots and cauliflower in it and have a side dish of green beans too! Yum!

She doesn't know it but I mash some cauliflower into the mashed potato. With all that gravy, meat and cheese, she doesn't taste it!

ames123 wrote:

Pureed sweetcorn? Never heard of that before! Thanks for the suggestion, but think i'll stick to the gravy - I can make that lol.

Really? I use it all the time in place of white sauce, much less faffy to make & it's gets a portion of veg into any fussy kids! Just a drained tin of sweetcorn in the blender with a little stock/water as needed. If using frozen sweetcorn cook in the microwave for about 2-4 minutes to soften first. Can be treated as white sauce & you can add cheese/white wine/peppercorns etc.

HTH;)