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Recipe: Cottage pie

Published by Arnold Page in Recipes · 26/10/2015 09:00:00
Tags: cottage_pie, minced_beef

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In a cottage pie you can use up food left over from the previous day – cooked vegetables, or the minced remains of a roast joint of meat. If you make this cottage pie properly, no one will be able to say that he can taste the plaster and wallpaper in it!

Preparation time: 40 minutes

Additional cooking time: 25 minutes

Servings: 4

Ingredients

3 medium potatoes

salt

2 carrots

¼ cabbage or ¼ marrow

2 tsp oil

400 gm minced beef

1 onion

1 beef stock cube

250 ml boiling water

1 tbl plain flour, preferably wholemeal

1 tbl tomato puree or tomato ketchup

1 tbl Worcester sauce

salt and pepper

1 tbl or 15 gm butter

Instructions

Peel the potatoes if necessary and cut them into chunks. Cover them with cold water in a saucepan, add salt, bring them to the boil and simmer for 20 minutes.
Top, tail and scrape the carrots as necessary, then slice them up. Put them in enough water to cover them in the base of a steamer and bring it to the boil.
Wash and shred the cabbage; or peel, core and slice the marrow. Add it to the steaming part of the steamer.
Pre-heat the oven to 180 ^oC.
Brown the meat in the oil in a large frying pan for a few minutes, then turn it over and brown the other side for a few more minutes.
Meanwhile top, tail, skin and slice the onion.
Crumble the stock cube and dissolve it in the 250 ml of boiling water in a very large saucepan.
Transfer the meat to the large saucepan, leaving the oil in the pan. Bring it back to the boil and leave it to simmer.
Fry the onion slices gently for two or three minutes, turn them over and fry them for a further two or three minutes.
Meanwhile stir the flour, tomato puree or ketchup, Worcester sauce and seasonings into the meat.
When the onions are cooked add them to the saucepan.
When the potatoes have cooked for 20 minutes, mash them with the butter in a saucepan. Don’t compact the mash.
Drain the carrots and the cabbage or marrow and stir them into the meat saucepan. Then pour the contents into a large (2 pint or 1200 ml) pie dish.
Spread the crumbled potato over the top and bake for 25 minutes on a baking tray until the potato is golden brown.

Tips

To make the top look even tastier sprinkle some grated cheese onto the potato.
Alternatively mix the cooked cabbage with the mashed potato before spreading it over the rest of the ingredients.
Serve with peas.

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