Cheesy Cottage Pie Recipe
A traditional cottage pie with minced beef in a rich wine gravy and cheesy mash to boot. It's the perfect filling dish after a long day.
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 566kcal
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon rapeseed oil
- 500 g mince beef
- 1 onion diced
- 2 carrots peeled and diced
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 tablespoon plain flour
- 100 ml red wine
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 50 g passata
- 400 ml beef stock
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon rosemary
For the Cottage Pie Mash
- 700 g potatoes peeled and quartered
- 50 ml milk
- 20 g butter
- 1 teaspoon mustard
- 100 g cheese grated
Instructions
- Boil your potatoes in a saucepan until tender.
- Separately brown off your minced beef in a frying pan.
- Set aside so you can saute all of your vegetables.
- Add your flour and passata and cook for a few minutes until everything coated and sticky.
- Add your red wine and Worcestershire sauce or Henderson’s Relish (a Sheffield product) and reduce.
- Then your beef stock, herbs and seasoning and simmer until thick and glossy (approx 10-15 minutes).
- Meanwhile, preheat your oven at 220 degrees.
- Spoon into a baking dish *we used a 23cm squared dish.
- Drain your potatoes and mash in the milk, butter, seasoning and half the cheese and spread on your minced beef.
- Sprinkle with extra cheese and bake for 25 minutes or until golden.
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Nutrition
Calories: 566kcal | Carbohydrates: 12g | Protein: 31g | Fat: 42g | Saturated Fat: 18g | Cholesterol: 127mg | Sodium: 810mg | Potassium: 788mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 5555IU | Vitamin C: 5mg | Calcium: 245mg | Iron: 4mg