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Easy Cottage Pie – My Comfort Food

January 22, 2015 by Maureen 59 Comments

Cottage Pie

I love shepherd’s pie made with leftover slow roasted lamb but what to do when there’s no lamb? I make cottage pie with minced beef instead.  This dish is full of flavor and it’s a favorite meal because I can put it together and pop it in the refrigerator for baking off just before dinner.

Cottage Pie

Today it’s dinner for just John and me. He’s busily finishing up the last few tweaks to his WordPress index plugin and I’ve finally been asked to help. I took each of his standard index templates and made changes to each one. I put a drop shadow on the category names, put double line boxes around sections, added margins and padding and changed the size of the thumbnails, then changed them from square to portrait and then to landscape. I don’t think there was an option on his live formatting that I didn’t play with.

If I can figure it out on my own, he’s done a good job. I’m not afraid of technology and that’s not always a good thing. Thankfully there’s someone close by to put things back together for me.

Cottage Pie

Otherwise I’ve been cleaning up the mess that I always seem to make when guests visit. Does anyone else struggle to do everything they did before AND entertain and cook and play tourist? I still have a mountain of laundry to do, the patio needs sweeping and I never made it to the pooper scooping today.  Step lightly on the dog lawn.

Cottage Pie

4.9 from 15 reviews
Easy Cottage Pie - My Comfort Food
 
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Prep time
14 mins
Cook time
45 mins
Total time
59 mins
 
This is a make-ahead one dish meal that yells comfort to me. Everything's in there.
Author: Maureen Shaw
Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: English
Serves: 6
Ingredients
Meat Filling
  • 1 large onion, finely chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
  • 2 carrots, roughly chopped
  • 1 tablespoon oil
  • 500 grams / 1 lb beef mince / ground beef
  • 2 tablespoons plain - all purpose flour
  • 1 cup beef stock
  • 1 tablespoon tomato paste
  • 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 can chopped tomatoes
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 cup frozen peas
  • 1 cup corn kernels
Mashed Potato and Carrot Topping
  • 500 grams / 1 pound potatoes, peeled and cut into large chunks
  • 3 carrots peeled and cut into coins
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • ¼ cup milk (depends upon how dry your potatoes are but enough to make creamy potatoes)
  • 2 teaspoons butter (or olive oil) to put on top before baking.
Instructions
Mashed Potato and Carrot Topping
  1. Add the potatoes and carrots to a large pot of cold salted water and cook on medium heat for about 15 minutes until both potatoes and carrots are soft.
  2. Heat the milk and add the butter to the milk and then add that to the potatoes.
  3. Mash the potatoes and season with salt and pepper.
Meat Filling
  1. In a large pot over medium heat, add the oil and then the onion, chopped carrots and garlic. Season with a small amount of salt to sweat the onions and stir for 3-4 minutes until the onions are translucent.
  2. Add the beef mince and stir to brown well.
  3. Sprinkle flour over the mixture and stir it in.
  4. Add the beef stock and mix well.
  5. Add the Worcestershire sauce and the tomatoes and stir well. Cook for 10-15 minutes over medium-low heat until the sauce is thick and the carrots are cooked.
  6. Taste for seasoning and add salt and freshly ground pepper to taste.
  7. Preheat oven to 190C/375F
  8. Place meat filling in the bottom of a casserole dish and sprinkle the frozen peas on top and then sprinkle the corn kernels.
  9. Top with mashed potato and carrot mixture.
  10. Dot with the two teaspoons butter and place in the oven for 30 minutes.
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Poor Charlie is back to swimming by himself.  He’s pretty fond of cottage pie too.

Wet Dog

 

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