Cottage Pie or Shepherd’s Pie
Cottage Pie or Shepherd’s Pie
Beef for Cottage pie or Lamb for Shepherd’s pie.
Ingredients:
- Mince beef or lamb (depends on how many your feeding for quantity)
- Vegetable or olive oil
- 1-2 Onion chopped
- 1-2 carrots sliced
- 4 oz mushrooms sliced
- celery chopped
- bacon (optional diced)
- Worcester sauce
- beef stock
- salt pepper
- herbs of choice (thyme, mixed herbs etc)
- 1-2 lbs cooked smashed potato
Method:
Fry onions and other vegetables, remove from pan and keep warm.
Fry meat return vegetables to browned meat, add stock, cook on low heat for 10 -15 mins.
Boil potatoes till soft, mash with a little butter and pepper.
Drain meat, save stock to make gravy, place into a suitable pie dish cover with the potato, place into the Halogen oven on low rack @ 180-200°C for approx 20-25 min or until top brown.
During cooking time thicken gravy with cornflour and cook vegetables of choice.
Posted by Hummingbird on 1/12/2010
