How to Cook Tasty Traditional Cottage Pie

Traditional Cottage Pie.

You can cook Traditional Cottage Pie using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Traditional Cottage Pie

1. Prepare 500 grams of minced beef.
2. Prepare 1 medium of onion.
3. You need 2 medium of carrots.
4. Prepare 2 clove of garlic.
5. You need 1 of beef oxo.
6. Prepare 2 tbsp of Worcester sauce.
7. It's 2 tbsp of brown sauce.
8. It's 300 ml of gravy made up.
9. You need 1 of big pinch of mixed herbs.
10. You need 6 large of potatoes.
11. It's 75 ml of milk.
12. Prepare 50 grams of butter.

Traditional Cottage Pie instructions

1. boil the potatoes until you can cut easily with a knife.
2. mostly brown mince off in a pan.
3. dice onion and carrots. crush garlic. add to the mince. crumble oxo over and finish off browning the mince.
4. add both sauces, herbs, garlic and gravy. simmer.
5. drain the potatoes and leave to steam for 5 mins to make fluffy mash.
6. pour mince into a deep casserole dish.
7. add butter and milk to the potatoes and mash until all the lumps have gone.
8. clip the end of the pipping bag and spoon in the mash. remove clip and pipe one even layer of mash then a layer of spikes.
9. place under a grill/broiler until peaks brown.
10. if you don't have a pipping bag just spoon on the mash and spike up with a fork.