Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, cottage/shepherd's pie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
.with the kind of refrigeration we had in our homes, cooked meat could be kept much more safely than raw. Therefore, when housewives bought their Sunday meat they selected pieces large enough to. In today's episode, we learn how to make Shepherd's Pie, but I actually make Cottage pie, I just like that name Shepherd's pie much better.
Cottage/Shepherd's Pie is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Cottage/Shepherd's Pie is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook cottage/shepherd's pie using 20 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Cottage/Shepherd's Pie:
- Get Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- Get Ground Beef or Lamb (I used Ground Beef)
- Prepare Large Onion, diced
- Prepare Carrots, peeled and diced
- Get Garlic, minced
- Prepare Worcestershire Sauce
- Take Ketchup
- Make ready Paprika
- Make ready Dried Rosemary
- Prepare or Red Wine
- Prepare All Purpose Flour
- Take Beef Stock
- Make ready Frozen Peas
- Get For the mashed potato topping:
- Make ready Potatoes (7-8 medium sized potatoes), peeled and cut in
- Get Whole Milk
- Get Unsalted Butter
- Get Shredded Cheddar Cheese
- Get Egg Yolk
- Take Salt and Pepper,
This DELICIOUS Cottage Pie is made with a mixture of ground beef, ground sausage, and mixed vegetables in a delicious gravy and baked under a layer of fluffy mashed potatoes. Okay, so apparently, there is a difference between Cottage Pie and Shepherd's Pie, but most people are using the names interchangeably. British and/or Irish in origin, the term Cottage Pie came about. Cottage pie is actually older than shepherd's pie.
Steps to make Cottage/Shepherd's Pie:
- In a large skillet preheated over medium-high heat add the olive oil with ground beef. Cook for about 4 to 5 minutes while breaking it up with a spatula until it’s no longer pink.
- Add onions and carrots, season them with salt and pepper. Cook the veggies for about 7 to 8 minutes or until they have developed some color and started to soften. Add the garlic, ketchup, worcesteshire sauce, dried rosemary and paprika and cook for another minute.
- Add the wine and cook it for about a minute or until it has reduced slightly.
- Sprinkle beef with the flour and cook, stirring constantly for about 2 minutes.
- Add the beef stock and let it come to a boil, reduce the heat to medium and let it simmer for 5-10 minutes or until the mixture has thickened.
- Stir in frozen peas and cook until warmed through for about 2-3 minutes.
- For the mashed potato topping:
- In a large pot, cover potatoes with cold water and add some salt. Bring to a boil, cook until soft for about 15-20 minutes and drain. Use a potato masher to mash potatoes until smooth.
- In a small saucepan, heat together the milk and butter so it’s nice and warm. Add the warm milk and butter to the mashed potatoes along with some cheddar cheese and mix everything well. Season with 1/2 tsp of paprika, salt and pepper to taste. Add the egg yolk and mix well.
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
- Spray the bottom and sides of a large baking dish with some non-stick spray, add the meat mixture and then top it with the mashed potatoes. Spread it evenly and place it in the oven and let it cook for about 15-20 minutes or until the mashed potatoes are golden brown.
Potatoes were affordable ingredients that were. The Best Cottage Pie Recipe (Shepherd's Pie with Beef!) Learn How to Make Shepherd's Pie in ONE POT for Saint Patrick's Day! Actually a classic shepherd's pie is made from lamb; shepherd - lamb, and a Cottage Pie would have been made out of beef. But in the US, not many Americans know the difference. This is a dish I grew up on and loved it everytime my mom made it.
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