sig's Cottage Pie. Cottage pie is actually older than shepherd's pie. Potatoes were affordable ingredients that were. This is a cottage-pie-style recipe using sausages.
Traditional cottage pie with a rich meaty sauce, topped with creamy mashed potato, crisped up to golden perfection.
Check out my tip for ensuring also get a jug of delicious gravy to pour on top.
In this cooking video The Wolfe Pit uses Gordon Ramsay's recipe to show you how to make Cottage Pie.
You can cook sig's Cottage Pie using 18 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of sig's Cottage Pie
- It's of seasoning I add a good pinch of dried coriander and parsley to either meat or if making vegetarien cottage pie to the quorn..
- You need 700 grams of potatoes cut into chunks.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of sunflower oil.
- You need 1 of onion,chopped.
- Prepare 1 clove of garlic, crushed.
- You need 2 of carrots, chopped.
- It's 500 grams of fresh beef mince.
- You need 115 grams of mushroom ,sliced.
- Prepare 1 of hand of petit pois peas.
- Prepare 1 tsp of sugar.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of Worcesterchire Sauce.
- You need 1 pinch of each salt ,cayenne pepper and nutmeg.
- Prepare 315 ml of beef stock.
- Prepare of Vegetarian option,omit meat but add all ingredients as above plus as follows or any other vegetable of choice.
- It's 1 packages of about 450 gr quorn.
- It's 2 of zucchini.
- It's 1 of onion chopped.
- You need 1 can of best tomatoes ,( optional).
Cottage pie is a combination of ground lamb or beef with mashed potatoes, topped with a bubbling layer of cheese is the perfect comfort food. Wonderful cottage pie reminds me of the meals I had in my British school's canteen. I followed the recipe for everything except the green peas coz I do not have them on hand. See more comfort food recipes at Tesco Real Food.
sig's Cottage Pie step by step
- cook potatoes in large pan of boiling water,20 minutes until tender but not falling apart.Heat oil in pan add onions garlic and other veg and cook over low heat for about 5 minutes until onion has softened.Increase heat to medium add beef or quorn,stirring until browned .Add mushrooms and stock,add sugar and Worcesterchire Sauce ,season with salt and pepper,simmer for about15 minutes. Take of heat and put into ovenproof dish ,let slightly cool.The juices should be gravy like, if not use a little gravy powder to thicken..
- Preheat oven to 200 C / gas 6.
- Drain potatoes add egg , butter and nutmeg,mash thoroughly.Add on top of meat or quorn mixture ,level out and create random pattern with fork turned back to front..
- Reheat in oven until potato is crisp and golden brown..
There's more to cottage pie than mince, mash and gravy. We've taken this comfort food family favourite to a new level that's bound to please everyone. This cottage pie recipe uses lots more onions than usual, which are not only good value but also give the beef a great flavour. Try more cottage pie and shepherd's pie recipes Cottage Pie. Cottage Pie is a variation on the equally well known Shepherd's Pie, using minced or ground beef instead of lamb.