Recipe: Perfect Cottage pie

Cottage pie. Being from Australia, cottage pie is a favourite when it comes to comfort food for the family. Overall, this recipe is pretty close to the orignial. Not sure why you would want to add cinnamon to a traditional cottage pie.

I followed the recipe for everything except the green peas coz I do not have them on hand. I use a bigger onion instead. I forgot to dot extra butter on top, but it still came out crisp with adequately brown. You can cook Cottage pie using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Cottage pie

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

View Suggestions BACK TO TOP See all Scripps Networks Digital. 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.

Cottage pie instructions

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!!.

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. Cottage pie is actually older than shepherd's pie. Potatoes were affordable ingredients that were often used by the peasants, who lived in cottages. Prepared mashed potatoes will help you whip up this classic Cottage Pie with Potato Crust recipe with ease. You can even make up a double batch so you can freeze half for later.

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