Traditional Cottage Pie

I induce got around other i of those kitchen confessions to make.

 I only like prefer to brand pretty food.

It’s a lot easier to induce got pictures of things similar poached pears in addition to fresh fruit pies than a fried bologna sandwich.  I’ve haven’t fifty-fifty had a fried bologna sandwich inwards twoscore years but it doesn’t audio pretty. When you’re a nutrient blogger, making homely nutrient look pretty is i of the hardest things to do. But beauty is inwards the eyes of the beholder or inwards this case, who ever’s hungry at dinner time!

But every right away in addition to and then I experience it’s of import to brand around ‘man food.’  You know, a hearty dish amongst solid soil beef, sauce in addition to mashed potatoes; something Traveling married adult man volition relish in addition to appreciate.  It’s no large undercover that solid soil beef is at the bottom of my list.  I dearest a practiced steak but don’t attention for solid soil meat.  During the past times year when I made all those pies, my husband asked if I was e'er going to brand a Shepherds Pie.  So the response is yes, I volition in addition to I did.  And to say the truth, it was pretty tasty fifty-fifty if it was made amongst solid soil beef!

To survive technically right I made a Cottage Pie which is the same every bit a Shepherds Pie using solid soil beef instead of lamb. You create upward one's heed (ground beef or lamb) in addition to besides choice upward around butter, olive oil, an onion, carrots, celery, garlic, tabular array salt in addition to pepper, Lycopersicon esculentum paste, Worcestershire sauce, beef consomme or beef stock, garden peas, Yukon gilt potatoes, to a greater extent than butter, cream or milk, in addition to mature white cheddar cheese.  Man food!

In a large skillet add together 1 tablespoon butter in addition to 1 tablespoon olive oil.

Heat on medium until the butter melts.

Add the chopped carrots, celery, onion in addition to garlic.  Saute until tender, almost seven to 10 minutes.  Season amongst tabular array salt in addition to pepper.

While the vegetables are cooking, tegument in addition to quarter the potatoes in addition to add together them to a pot of mutual depression temperature water.  Bring to a boil in addition to laid upward uncovered until tender.  Drain the potatoes in addition to then identify them dorsum inwards the pot.  Add the butter, salt, pepper in addition to milk or cream.  Mash until potatoes are almost smooth.  Sprinkle inwards 1 loving cup shredded mature white cheddar cheese in addition to crush around more.  Set aside.

Once the vegetable are tender add together the Lycopersicon esculentum glue in addition to blend until mixed.  Next add together the solid soil meat in addition to laid upward until the beef is no longer pink.  Add the Worcestershire sauce in addition to beef consomme to the skillet.  Season amongst tabular array salt in addition to pepper to taste.  Cook in addition to simmer for around other 10 minutes.  Add the peas stirring until blended.  Pour the mixture into a 13×9 baking dish sprayed amongst Pam.  Spread the meat evenly on the bottom, in addition to then overstep amongst the mashed potatoes.  Once the meat has been covered, push clit a fork across the overstep to create ridges inwards the potatoes that volition chocolate-brown inwards the oven.

Bake inwards a preheated 400 flat oven for almost twenty minutes or until the potatoes are lightly browned.

Spoon the mixture onto serving plates in addition to enjoy!

Traditional Cottage Pie

(adapted from a recipe past times Danny Boome on Food Network)

For the beef mixture:

1 tablespoon butter

1 tablespoon olive oil

1 modest onion, chopped

3 carrots, diced

3 stalks celery, diced

2 cloves garlic, minced

Salt in addition to freshly solid soil pepper to taste

2 tablespoons Lycopersicon esculentum paste

1 1/2 pounds lean solid soil beef

2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

1 loving cup beef consomme or beef stock

1 1/2 cups fresh or frozen dark-green peas

For the mashed potatoes:

4 pounds Yukon gilt potatoes, peeled in addition to quartered

4 tablespoons butter

1/4 loving cup heavy cream or whole milk

1 loving cup shredded white Cheddar cheese

salt in addition to pepper to taste

In a large saucepan add together 1 tablespoon butter in addition to 1 tablespoon olive oil.  Heat on medium until butter is melted. Saute the onions, garlic, carrots in addition to celery for almost 10 minutes or until tender.  Season amongst tabular array salt in addition to pepper.  Add the Lycopersicon esculentum glue in addition to mix until blended.  Add the solid soil beef in addition to laid upward until the meat is no longer pink.  Add the Worcestershire sauce in addition to consomme in addition to simmer for around other 10 minutes.  Add the peas in addition to stir until blended.  Set aside.

In a large saucepan add together the potatoes.   Cover amongst H2O in addition to convey to a boil.  Cook uncovered until the potatoes are tender.  Drain in addition to supply the potatoes to the pot.  Add the cream, butter, tabular array salt in addition to pepper.  Mash until almost smooth.  Add the cheese in addition to crush i time to a greater extent than until blended.

Spread the beef mixture evenly on the bottom of a lightly greased 13×9 inch baking dish.  Cover amongst the mashed potatoes spreading to seal.  Drag a fork across the potatoes to create ridges that volition chocolate-brown inwards the oven.  Bake inwards a preheated 400 flat oven until the potatoes are lightly browned.  Serve in addition to enjoy!

You know I’m only kidding almost the pretty nutrient thing.  This casserole has been a favorite of cooks inwards many countries for many years.  The potatoes are out of this globe delicious!  I estimate nobody would heed if I only consume the overstep 🙂

If yous induce got a bunch of manful men coming over for a large football game game this weekend, yous tin laissez passer on the sack serve this pie amongst confidence.  Tell them real men similar to add together a piddling hot sauce to this meat pie.  (insert manful noises here.)

Thanks hence much for stopping by!

Tricia

Source: savingdessert.com