Cottage Pie

[Dougy]

Cottage Pie with grated cheese on top, a decent dose of L&P, i went back for a small 2nd helping. 

 

 

[ditchman]

nice.....im totally useless at making cottage pie...just cant seem to get the filling right...

[marsh man]

It look good to me Dougy , everything in one dish , I have bought one for tomorrow but I will certainly make one of my own , as long as I don't burn it I think I can manage it .

Nice one     MM

[Dougy]

3 minutes ago, marsh man said:

It look good to me Dougy , everything in one dish , I have bought one for tomorrow but I will certainly make one of my own , as long as I don't burn it I think I can manage it .

Nice one     MM

In this is, 

2lb beef mince

2 Onions chopped small

2 BIG carrots, part cooked and chopped small

3lb Potato- mashed,creamed butter, milk salt black and white pepper

1/2 lb Peas

2 tablespoons of tomato puree 

Seasoning/salt/pepper/small amount of garlic (Cheat with a cottage pie mix)

 

Fry onions and mince add water and seasoning, part cook carrots chop and chuck in the mince mix with the peas

Do spuds and mash, 

Then chuck in an oven dish, Cheese is optional of course put we like it, 20 mins, out and eat. 

 

 

[Morkin]

That looks good , i do like a good shepherd pie 👏👍

[Sussexboy]

2 hours ago, ditchman said:

nice.....im totally useless at making cottage pie...just cant seem to get the filling right...

I have trouble with this as well. Too dry or so wet it bubbles up all over the mash. Can’t seem to judge it right.

[ditchman]

1 minute ago, Sussexboy said:

I have trouble with this as well. Too dry or so wet it bubbles up all over the mash. Can’t seem to judge it right.

i have a set of cast iron frying pans....think i will have a go using one of them.....have used tyhe small one to do toad in da hole and it worked well.......and doingtthe cottage pie i could finish it off under the grill......

one for next week maybe................i think MM is goingto do one as well

[bruno22rf]

6 hours ago, ditchman said:

i have a set of cast iron frying pans....think i will have a go using one of them.....have used tyhe small one to do toad in da hole and it worked well.......and doingtthe cottage pie i could finish it off under the grill......

one for next week maybe................i think MM is goingto do one as well

I find the easiest way is to fry everything except the beef and pop the liquid mix in a slow cooker, then fry the beef till it's popping out of the pan just shy of burnt - this is added to the slow cooker and absorbs the flavour from the liquid over 5-6 hours, then into a dish with Mash Potato (try adding a Parsnip in the Mash) and then oven cook till the mash starts to go  brown or the Cheese goes hard.

[Robden]

I usually make it with cheesy mash. Just add grated cheese to the mash, whizz it round, place on top then bung it in the oven.

[ditchman]

3 hours ago, Robden said:

I usually make it with cheesy mash. Just add grated cheese to the mash, whizz it round, place on top then bung it in the oven.

that sound nice......

3 hours ago, bruno22rf said:

I find the easiest way is to fry everything except the beef and pop the liquid mix in a slow cooker, then fry the beef till it's popping out of the pan just shy of burnt - this is added to the slow cooker and absorbs the flavour from the liquid over 5-6 hours, then into a dish with Mash Potato (try adding a Parsnip in the Mash) and then oven cook till the mash starts to go  brown or the Cheese goes hard.

i did fry the mince like that once ...and i wasnt impressed....

[oldypigeonpopper]

Hello, I love Cottage pie but not with Cheese 🤔😒

[JohnfromUK]

Your pie looks very nice and similar to how I do it - i.e. make and cook the mince filling and the potato topping separately and add topping over the filling in a Pyrex dish and finish off in a hot oven.  Sometimes I add cheese, sometimes just a bit of melted butter brushed over to give a nice crisp brown finish.  I try to keep the mash fairly 'dry' using just butter and black pepper (and occasionally wholegrain mustard) but not milk.  I also iuse a Knorr type 'stockpot' gel tablet in the filling.

I ring the changes on the filling (taking it a bit away from 'cottage') sometimes using one or more of;  chillies, bell/pointed peppers, mushrooms, frozen mixed vegetables (e.g Birds Eye), tinned tomatoes chopped up, curry powder/paste.

Edited 12 hours ago by JohnfromUK

[bruno22rf]

7 hours ago, ditchman said:

that sound nice......

i did fry the mince like that once ...and i wasnt impressed....

You need to then allow several hours in the slow cooker for the Mince to rehydrate as it were, I swear it improves the flavour by almost caramelising it.