Cottage Pie Recipe | How to make Cottage Pie | Easy and Tasty Cottage Pie

ground beef

🥗Healthier: ground turkey

💰Cheaper: ground pork

Turkey is leaner, while pork is often less expensive.

butter

🥗Healthier: olive oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Olive oil is healthier, while margarine can be more budget-friendly.

Peel and chop potatoes into small cubes. Place them into a pot, fill it with water, add 1 tsp. salt and cook until the potatoes are soft.

Chop onion, garlic, carrots and celery sticks into small pieces.

Heat 1 tbsp. olive oil in a pot and add your minced beef. Stir fry the beef until it gets a brown color. Remove the beef from the pot and set aside for a while. Add some more olive oil into the same pot and add your chopped vegetables. Season with 1 tsp. salt and black pepper. Add 1 tsp. tomato puree into the vegetables. Keep stirring the vegetable mix.

Meanwhile when the potatoes are cooked, drain them and return them into the pot. Add 100 g butter and start mashing the potatoes with a potato masher. Slowly add some milk and continue mashing the potatoes until they are smooth and creamy. Season with white pepper and 1/2 tsp. salt.

Add 150 ml red wine to your vegetable mix. Season with thyme, 2 tbsp. worcestershire sauce and add your chopped garlic. After 3 minutes place back your minced beef into the pot. Mix well together and season with some more thyme. After a few minutes add 1 tbsp. flour and mix well. Then add 400 ml beef stock and keep stirring. Place the 250 g peas into your mix and cook for another 20-30 minutes.

Place the beef vegetable mix into a baking dish and add your mashed potatoes on top.

Bake it until the mashed potato has a golden brown color.

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