Recipe: Delicious Shortcut Cottage pie!

Shortcut Cottage pie!. This classic cottage pie recipe is easy to make and would make the perfect family meal packed with minced beef, sweet tomatoes and topped with creamy mash. Cottage pie is actually older than shepherd's pie. Potatoes were affordable ingredients that were.

A cottage pie is often called a shepherd's pie, but there's a difference. Cottage pie can be baked in the skillet used to cook the meat, or transferred to a casserole dish before The potatoes will brown a little without being broiled. For a simple shortcut use good quality. You can have Shortcut Cottage pie! using 7 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Shortcut Cottage pie!

1. You need 400 grams of halal ground beef marinated ginger salt garlic.
2. You need of Frozen Potata chips(See pic).
3. It's of Frozen premade cooking sauce (separate recipe inshaallah).
4. You need of Spices and healthy herbs:(zaatar,some blackseed(optional).
5. It's of Butter for pototoes.some cooking oil.
6. You need 1 pack of Cheese slices.
7. You need of Spring onions,corriander(optional).

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. Classic Cottage Pie Recipe photo by Taste of Home. Cottage pie is a delicious variation of the classic shepherd's pie, and it's fairly simple to make at home! Use beef, rather than lamb, and fill your pie with sautéed onions, carrots, and celery.

Shortcut Cottage pie! step by step

1. Beef mince marinate.
2. Chips (frozen ones with only salt and oil added, from shops).used homemade freezer cooking sauce (separate recipe inshaallah).
3. Brown the beef.
4. Now the pototoes are boiling and the meat is browning..
5. Add some more spice:corriander powder,some black seeds..you can chop some spring onion and add half in and leave some for toping later.
6. While meat is browning,check the potatoes if starting to be mashy,meave abit more.
7. Once potato r ready drain of all of oil as much as possible.now the pre frozen sauce used has defrosted and the potatoes r getting cool.
8. Start mashing the potatoes and then add the butter and some of the milk(about half of milk quantity shown in pic was used).all butter was used.
9. Butter the squar tin and layer the mince.spoon all meat onto the tin base.
10. Start adding the sauce over the meat.then sprinckle some peas over the sayce and gently pat them into the sauce.(here used about 2 handful oeas only)..
11. (This part is great to get kidds involved)Finally add the potato mash gently patting down with back of spoon.then make nice fork marks then add the cheese slices squares close together.(9 cheese slices fitted nicely on too of this tinon surface).and sprinkle the spring onions.decirate with corruander or some chilli flakes and herbs of choice.
12. Pre heat oven.and 180 degrees or more.then place your tray in oven until cheese bubble and brown on top.(careful with the hot oven)bismillah and enjoy.

In this cooking video The Wolfe Pit uses Gordon Ramsay's recipe to show you how to make Cottage Pie. Now all your elements are ready for building your rainbow cottage pie. This filling dinner recipe is cheap and easy to make in the microwave - perfect for students! Comfort food doesn't get much more classic than this cottage pie, layered with beef mince & buttery mash. See more comfort food recipes at Tesco Real Food.