cottage pie

dihaz

Hello everyone i had my first cottage pie at the weekend and i loved it!!!
Could you please please give me a good recipe for cottage pie (and easy!)
Thankyou

Penny-Pincher!!

Hiya

I use minced lamb.

250g minced lamb
Onion
Tin of beans
Tin of chopped toms (optional)
Spuds for mash

Get spuds on for mash. Fry onion lightly in some butter/oil. Then add meat, when cooked through, add beans and optional toms. Put in oven dish, mash spuds and put on top spread out with spoon the use fork to get the lones around it (this just makes it llok pretty..LOL) then sometimes we add grated cheddar to the top. Sometimes we cook extra buttered onions and put this in the mash-delish!!

Good luck and its dead easy to do. The above will make enough for 4 huge portions and extra portions can be easily frozen

PP
xx

comping_cat

For cottage pie i fry up some minced beef, onion and grated carrot. Then i add some beef gravy. Put into an oven proof dish, top with mashed potato and brown under the grill.
Shepherds pie, i would swap the beef for lamb!!!!

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Wirenth

Fry off an onion and a 1lb of minced beef. Add a chopped carrot and diced bacon. Then a slug of brown sauce, ketchup and lea&perrins. Some pepper and dried oregano. A good glug of port or red wine. Some chopped mushrooms.....then, when they've 'wilted', a little bit of water, to just cover the mixture. Simmer for half an hour.

Make your mash potatoes with butter, no milk. (I normally boil about 3).

Heat your oven to 160 deg C (if fan assisted). Put your meat mixture in a pyrex dish, spread the mash on top. Then toss a light dusting of grated cheese over it. Bake for another half hour.

MATH

There are as many different wasy to make cottage pie as people making it.

I use lamb mince for shepherd's pie and mince beef for cottage. here's what i do although it changes everytime I make it cos it's that kind of use it up dish.
Brown 1/2 lb of beef mince with two chopped onion. Chucking in a crushed garlic clove for the last few minutes.

Drain off the fat if it looks a lot and then toss 4-6 tblespns of oats in and a couple of tblespns of flour. Stir arround until the dissapear into the mince. Once it is cooked you'll think it's meat (honest)

Add sliced celery, carrot, mushrooms, mixed herbs a tin of baked beans and a tin of chopped tomatoes and half pint of stock (stock qty varies and I add extra during cooking if needs be.

I then slo-cook the mixture for 6 hrs on high or nuke for 20 mins stiring 3-4 times and then nuke on low/defrost for half and hour.

For the topping I really like a 50/50 mix of potatoes and swede or potatoes and parsnips. Mash well with a little milk and plenty of black pepper. Pile on top of the meat mixture and brown under a hot grill. Chuck some grated cheese on if you are not bothered about calories.

HTH

thriftmonster

My family like bolognese sauce as the base for cottage pie - lots of tomatoes, red wine, oregano etc. I do it in the slow cooker - the mince. It also freezes superbly so it's woth making 2 or 3 at a go

intel

May I just say that Cottage Pie is Beef and Shepards is Lamb
but as for Pork.... Im stumped on that one and also chicken
or is that just a chicken pie.....

Lillibet_2

intel wrote:

May I just say that Cottage Pie is Beef and Shepards is Lamb
but as for Pork.... Im stumped on that one and also chicken
or is that just a chicken pie.....

Or cottage pie is made with any leftover roast & shepherds pie is made with any fresh mince.

Or cottage pie has a potato top & shepherds pie a pastry top.

I have had many arguments with my Hubby on this point. There is no definitive version of which is which:rolleyes:.

intel

Lillibet wrote:

Or cottage pie is made with any leftover roast & shepherds pie is made with any fresh mince.

Or cottage pie has a potato top & shepherds pie a pastry top.

I have had many arguments with my Hubby on this point. There is no definitive version of which is which:rolleyes:.

Thats what you think as you should know a man is always wright even when
they are supposedly wrong And my Mrs Beeton book reckoned it was that way around.. and she's bound to be right but I cant ask her as she died at the age of 27 :rolleyes:

rchddap1

Left over roast :eek: what's that then? No matter the size of any roast that we have OH always 'manages' (only just of course) to squeeze it in.