Cottage Pie Meal
Cottage Pie Meal

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, cottage pie meal. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Cottage Pie Meal is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Cottage Pie Meal is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

Jamie likes to save time at this stage by using a food processor to chop his onions. Cottage pie is a quintessential British meal that's warming, nourishing and packed full of flavour. Plus, it's pretty simple to make, which is great news if you're trying to juggle working from home, home schooling and childcare with preparing healthy, balanced meals.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have cottage pie meal using 20 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Cottage Pie Meal:
  1. Get 200 g beef mince
  2. Make ready 1 cup bread crumbs
  3. Make ready 1 egg
  4. Take 1/2 onion chopped
  5. Take 1/2 green pepper chopped
  6. Get 1 tsp Garlic and ginger paste
  7. Take 1 tblsp BBQ spice and 1 tblsp peri-peri spice
  8. Make ready Mash
  9. Prepare 3 medium sized potatoes
  10. Prepare 40 ml milk
  11. Take 10 g butter
  12. Get Mixed herbs
  13. Get Sides
  14. Make ready Half Butternut (peeled and chopped up)
  15. Take 3 large carrots (peeled and sliced up)
  16. Make ready Rice
  17. Get 250 ml rice
  18. Prepare Turmeric
  19. Make ready 2 sticks stick cinnamon
  20. Make ready to taste Salt

I recently served it with this Carrot Salad with a Honey Dijon Dressing which was a hit!. For a cosy meal on a cold winter night, try it with a side of Glazed Roasted Carrots and Sautéed. 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. It's a good remedy for the winter chills.—Shannon Copley, Upper Arlington, Ohio Being from Australia, cottage pie is a favourite when it comes to comfort food for the family.

Steps to make Cottage Pie Meal:
  1. Put the rice in a pot, covered in 400ml water. Add the turmeric and stick cinnamon (with some salt to taste) and allow it to cook until ready.
  2. Put the peeled and chopped Butternut and carrots in a mini pot and cover with water (with some salt to taste) and cook until veggies are soft enough to be poked with a fork.
  3. Peel and chop up the potatoes and follow the same procedure as mentioned above.
  4. Rinse the mince and place it in a pirex/glass dish. Add the chopped onion and green pepper and then add the egg. Add bread crumbs and thereafter mix thoroughly adding spices as desired.
  5. Use a tblsp of oil to line the pie dish around the ends of the pie so that it doesn't turn dry whilst in the oven.
  6. Place the cottage pie in the oven and allow to cook until mince is brown.
  7. Once rice is done place it in a strainer and rinse with clean cold water. Once that is done, sprinkle rice with 3 tblsp of sugar and ensure that sugar is evenly distributed.
  8. Once veggies are soft enough to be poked with a fork remove them from the stove and place in another strainer, rinse with cold water and follow the same procedure as mentioned above.
  9. Once potatoes are soft, take it off the stove. Rinse with cold water and place it back onto the stove. Add the butter and milk and mash it with a fork. Do add some peri-peri spice/fisherman spice to give the mash some flavour.
  10. Once the mince has browned in the oven cover the pie with the mash and decorate it with a fork. Sprinkle the mixed herbs over and place it back into the oven for approx. 10/15 minutes. When cottage pie is ready, the meal can be served as intended.

Overall, this recipe is pretty close to the orignial. Not sure why you would want to add cinnamon to a traditional cottage pie. Our Birds Eye Cottage Pie presents to you a much loved British classic. Pair this delicious, homely classic with a fruity red wine for that perfect dinner time occasion. What's really fun, is the variations on cottage pie that you see in British cuisine, and that have made their way to the States with the immigrants.

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