Cottage Pie Meal - Turned out great! Very moist.. Today I am sharing this Cottage Pie Meal! A quick and easy dinner that is ready in under 30 minutes! Cottage pie is proper comfort food. Try our recipes from traditional to spicy chilli, sweet potato and beef bourguignon varieties, plus veggie versions. Make a hearty cottage pie for the family. This classic cottage pie recipe is easy to make and would make the perfect family meal packed with minced beef, sweet tomatoes and topped with creamy mash. This recipe meets all of the following criteria The whole meal contains a meat or alternative, a starch (root vegetable or grain), and vegetables or fruit.
Comfort food doesn't get much more classic than this cottage pie, layered with beef mince & buttery mash.
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Cottage Pie is a rustic, savory pie of ground beef in a flavorful gravy, vegetables, topped with mashed potatoes and cheese.
You can cook Cottage Pie Meal with 20 Ingredients and 10 steps. See the following guide!
Ingredients for Cottage Pie Meal:
- 200 g beef mince.
- 1 cup bread crumbs.
- 1 egg.
- 1/2 onion chopped.
- 1/2 green pepper chopped.
- 1 tsp Garlic and ginger paste.
- 1 tblsp BBQ spice and 1 tblsp peri-peri spice.
- Mash.
- 3 medium sized potatoes.
- 40 ml milk.
- 10 g butter.
- Mixed herbs.
- Sides.
- Half Butternut (peeled and chopped up).
- 3 large carrots (peeled and sliced up).
- Rice.
- 250 ml rice.
- Turmeric.
- 2 sticks stick cinnamon.
- to taste Salt.
I have to confess I love a one dish meal. 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. Cottage pie Hearty dish one and amazing for lunch the next day! The mince in this dish is a good source of protein.
Step by step how to cook Cottage Pie Meal:
- 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..
- 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..
- Peel and chop up the potatoes and follow the same procedure as mentioned above..
- 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..
- 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..
- Place the cottage pie in the oven and allow to cook until mince is brown..
- 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..
- 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..
- 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..
- 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..
Protein is the building blocks of the. An easy twist on a classic cottage pie recipe. James Martin gives his topping a bit of oomph with parsnips and a dash of horseradish. 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.