Recipe: Perfect Cottage Pie

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It's a good remedy for the winter chills.—Shannon Copley, Upper Arlington, Ohio Classic Cottage Pie Recipe photo by Taste of Home A traditional cottage pie is made with ground beef and topped with mashed potatoes. We used potato slices, which saves time and looks good, too. For a shepherd's pie, use lamb. You can have Cottage Pie using 18 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Cottage Pie

1. It's of Mashed Potato on top.
2. You need 2 kg of potato (peeled and boiled).
3. You need 75 gr of butter.
4. It's 100 ml of milk.
5. You need of Salt.
6. It's of Pepper.
7. Prepare of Beef Filling.
8. Prepare 1 kg of minced beef.
9. You need 5 pcs of carrots (grated or diced).
10. You need 1 can of corn kernel.
11. Prepare 1 can of peas.
12. You need 1 can of tomato crush (or you can substitute with 3 tbs tomato paste).
13. It's 2 tbs of Worcestershire sauce.
14. You need 2 pcs of bay leaves.
15. Prepare 3 tbs of bbq sauce (optional).
16. Prepare of Salt.
17. It's of Pepper.
18. It's 2 pcs of brown onion (peeled and diced finely).

Cottage Pie is one of those rare foods that is truly perfect to make in advance. Boil the potatoes until soft and mash them with the milk until smooth and creamy. Spoon the meat mixture into a gratin dish and cover with a thick, even layer of mashed potato. Cottage Pie and Shepherd's Pie are both savory meat pies with a crust or topping of mashed potatoes.

Cottage Pie instructions

1. First, boiled the potatoes then mashed it together with butter, milk, salt and pepper to your liking until it silky smooth in texture. Set aside..
2. Heat the oil on the pan, put onion and stir until brownish and have nice fragrance then add the minced beef. After that, put all the veggies, bay leaves, tomato crush/paste and seasoning. Set aside..
3. Put the beef filling on pyrex or pie dish, layer with mashed potato. For final touch you can add permesan cheese or parsley. Then put on the oven 170 degrees until mashed potato a bit crusty..

Traditionally, Shepherd's Pie is made with ground or minced lamb, while a Cottage Pie is made with ground or minced beef. We prefer beef in this house, so the Cottage Pie has always been our preference! Why is Cottage Pie called "Cottage Pie?" Cottage pie is a meat pie that is topped with mashed potatoes and baked in the oven. Now, cottage pie and shepherd's pie differ only in the type of ground meat they are made with. At its most basic, cottage pie is a meat pie (or casserole) that is topped with mashed potatoes rather than a pie crust.