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We hope you got benefit from reading it, now let’s go back to cottage pie recipe. To cook cottage pie you need 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
The ingredients needed to cook Cottage pie:
- Prepare onions
- Take big carrot
- Prepare garlic minced
- You need sliced peppers
- Get peas
- Use minced beef
- Prepare chopped tomatoes
- Provide shepherds pie mix
- Prepare big cubed potatoes
- Provide milk
- You need butter/spread
- Get Salt and pepper
- Take grated cheese
Instructions to make Cottage pie:
- In a deep frying pan/wok, fry your chopped onions and the garlic till the onions turn brown. Add the mince and brown. Add your tomatoes, chopped carrot, peas and sliced peppers and bring to a boil. Add the shepherd's pie sachet to the mix (you could make your own, I do most times just wanted to use up the packet mix) and bring to a boil.
- To make the mash peel and cube your potatoes and bring them to a boil in a pan. When soft drain and mash with butter milk salt and pepper to taste.
- When the mixture is reduced enough but not too dry as it goes in the oven, place in a oven proof dish, cover with the mash (you can spoon the mash on top as I did or use a piping bag) and grated cheese and bake at 180c for 30-40 minutes or until golden brown. Serve with green vegetables like broccoli and top with gravy.
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