Easiest Way to Prepare Perfect Thrown Together Cottage Pie

Thrown Together Cottage Pie. Lynette's "Throw-it-all-together" cottage pie, designed to comfort friends in need. I'm not a cook - well, Indian curry and British scones aside - so my "throw-it-all-together" cottage pie was very much my go-to dish when, for seven years, I was a single working mom of pre-teens. Cottage pie is classic British comfort meal comprising a flavoured beef mince and vegetable filling that is topped with mashed potatoes and baked.

This DELICIOUS Cottage Pie is made with a mixture of ground beef, ground sausage, and mixed vegetables in a delicious gravy and baked under a layer of fluffy mashed potatoes. This traditional English dish is a close relative to Shepherd's Pie only it's made with beef instead of lamb. There are many variations of the recipe, but the defining ingredients include minced or ground beef with onions (and sometimes other vegetables) in a gravy. You can have Thrown Together Cottage Pie using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Thrown Together Cottage Pie

1. Prepare 750 grams of beef.
2. You need 1 of onion.
3. You need 1/2 of aubergine.
4. Prepare 1 of courgette.
5. Prepare 1 of green peppet.
6. You need 300 grams of porato.
7. It's 1 tbsp of mixed herbs.
8. It's 1 tsp of pepper.
9. It's 1 tbsp of tomato ketchup.
10. It's 1 clove of garlic.
11. Prepare 1 tbsp of instant gravy granules.
12. It's 2 cup of boiled water.

Classic Cottage Pie 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. Heat the oil in a large frying pan and add the onion, celery and carrot, stirring them over a brisk heat but not allowing them to brown. Cottage pie is actually older than shepherd's pie. Potatoes were affordable ingredients that were often used by the peasants, who lived in cottages.

Thrown Together Cottage Pie instructions

1. Cut up all veg and fry with beef mince.
2. Meanwhile boil and mash potatoes. Add pepper to taste.
3. Add mixed herbs, gravy granules, garlic, ketchup and boiled water to mince.
4. Ensemble mince and potatoes in an oven proof dish. Cook in an oven 180°F for 15 minutes.
5. Serve with peas and green beand.

So, "cottage pie" was an easy to make, affordable dish. Why is it called cottage pie? 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. 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.