Recipe: Yummy Cottage pie

Cottage pie. Proper English Cottage Pie is a delicious, very traditional mince pie (beef) topped with mashed potato. 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. Cottage pie is a classic dish that comes from the UK and Ireland.

A pie dish would be lined at the sides and bottom with mashed potato. 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. You can have Cottage pie using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Cottage pie

1. It's 1 lb of ground beef.
2. It's 1 of medium onion (minced).
3. Prepare 1 tsp of garlic (minced).
4. You need 5 of potatoes.
5. It's 4 of dashes of worcestershire sauce.
6. You need 1 of salt and pepper to taste.
7. You need 1 can of whole kernel corn.
8. It's 1 can of sweet peas.
9. It's 1/4 of cup shredded cheddar cheese, or as much as you like.

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. Cottage Pie and Shepherd's Pie are both savory meat pies with a crust or topping of mashed potatoes. Traditionally, Shepherd's Pie is made with ground or minced lamb, while a Cottage Pie is made with ground or minced beef.

Cottage pie step by step

1. Preheat oven to °400, Peel and wash potatoes, dice and begin to boil..
2. In a large skillet add ground beef, onion, garlic, salt and pepper, and Worcestershire sauce. Cook until beef is browned..
3. Drain corn and peas. When potatoes are done, mash well. Add ground beef to a glass baking dish..
4. Top with corn, peas and then mashed potatoes. Coat top of potatoes with cheese. Bake for 20 min. Enjoy!!.

We prefer beef in this house, so the Cottage Pie has always been our preference! Why is Cottage Pie called "Cottage Pie?" At its most basic, cottage pie is a meat pie (or casserole) that is topped with mashed potatoes rather than a pie crust. After this, it can vary greatly from region to region (or kitchen to kitchen). Sometimes you will see other vegetables like celery, mushrooms, or peas studded through the meat filling. It originated when the potato was being introduced as a cheap food for the poor, and the dish was popular among the people living in modest cottages.