Recipe: Delicious Cottage Pie Meal

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Comfort food doesn't get much more classic than this cottage pie, layered with beef mince & buttery mash. See more comfort food recipes at Tesco Real Food. Wonderful cottage pie reminds me of the meals I had in my British school's canteen. You can cook Cottage Pie Meal using 20 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Cottage Pie Meal

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

Cottage pie was originally an old English recipe invented as a way to make the leftover meat from a Sunday roast go further Topped with mash and baked this provided an extra meal for families. Traditional cottage pie with a rich meaty sauce, topped with creamy mashed potato, crisped up to golden perfection. Check out my tip for ensuring also get a jug of delicious gravy to pour on top. Make it special with Mary Berry's dauphinoise topped cottage pie, or keep it simple with James James Martin's easy cottage pie recipe is a family favourite.

Cottage Pie Meal step by step

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..

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