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Cottage Pie Recipe


Cottage Pie Recipe
Fills the kiddies tummies!

Misslionhea

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Ingredients
  • 1lb round minced beef (round is leaner than rib)
  • 1 large white onion - diced
  • 5 cloves garlic - diced
  • 2 med carrots - diced
  • 1 parsnip - diced
  • 2 sticks of celery - diced
  • ½ red pepper - diced
  • ½ yellow pepper - diced
  • 6-8 mushrooms - sliced
  • small head of broccoli
  • half head of cauliflour
  • tin of sweetcorn
  • tin of garden peas
  • ½ jar of Passata {pulped tomatoes}
  • tin of chopped tomatoes
  • ¼ pint of vegetable stock
  • large bunch of chopped flat leaf parsley
  • 200g grated cheddar {or any other hard cheese}
  • 8 large potatoes {roosters work well}
  • Olive Oil
  • Rock salt
  • Cracked pepper
  • Butter
  • Milk

Directions
  1. Peel and quarter the potatoes and put on to boil
  2. Dry fry the mince, slowly to remove excess fat. When browned, move to a dish with a slotted spoon and wash off pan
  3. Add a little olive oil to the pan and sweat off the garlic and onion.
  4. Once glassy return the minced beef to the pan
  5. After 2 mins add the carrot, parsnip and celery {all hard veg}
  6. Cook through, mixing gently for about five minutes, then add peppers, corn, peas and mushrooms
  7. Cook for additional 5 mins, then add passata, tinned tomatoes and stock
  8. Simmer for about ten minutes, add pepper, salt and parsley
  9. Simmer for two minutes then turn all the mix into a large pyrex dish - rectangular in shape about 3 inches deep
  10. Add all the grated cheese to the top, covering the meat mix
  11. Mash the potatoes with some real butter, a little milk, some cracked black pepper and a little salt. {you could add some cream cheese too if you liked}
  12. Spoon over the top of the dish, using the back of the spoon to seal the edges and a fork to fluff up the middle
  13. Cover with tin foil and cook for 35mins in the middle of the oven on 180 degress C
  14. Remove foil for last five minutes to allow potato to brown. This is ideal for freezing.
  15. For small babes, don’t use the salt or stock cube, just use water.
  16. When fully cooked, blitz with a hand blender.
  17. For slightly older infants, simply mash

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