How Pounds Is 500 G Minceground Beef
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Recipe for the best cottage pie
L.M.Reid
How to Make Cottage Pie From Scratch
One of the best recipes to make with ground beef mince is a cottage pie. This is one of those recipes that is quick and easy to make and very tasty, too. I will share the basic recipe of ground beef and vegetables; then I will list other possible ingredients you can use to adjust the recipe to your own taste. Step-by-step instructions, photos, and videos are included.
Ingredients
- 500g (1 pound) ground beef mince
- 2 medium carrots
- 1 large onion
- 1 Oxo beef stock cube
- 4 large potatoes
- 2 tablespoons frozen peas
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- Butter
- Milk
Ingredients for a cottage pie
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Step-by-Step Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200°C.
- Peel and cut up the onions into small pieces.
- Take a large pot, and add the oil to heat.
- Add the onions and cook until golden brown.
- Add the mince ground beef gradually stirring all the time.
- When the mince is brown add boiling water that just covers the meat.
- Leave to simmer, stirring occasionally.
- Peel and grate one of the carrots and add to the pot.
- Peel and cut up the other carrot into small squares and add to the pot.
- Add the beef cube by crumbling up over the pot and stirring it in to avoid any lumps.
- Leave to simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Add the frozen peas and simmer for an extra 10 minutes.
- Turn off the heat and leave in the pot to cool off.
- Take out an appropriate oven dish and add the pie mixture from the pot.
Cottage pie recipe
L.M.Reid
How to Make the Mashed Potato Topping
- Peel the potatoes and cut each one into four even pieces.
- Add to a pot with cold water. Bring to the boil.
- Lower the heat down so the potatoes are simmering for 15 minutes.
- Turn off the heat and drain the water from the pot.
- Add some milk and butter to the potatoes and mash them. The mash needs to be more loose than normal so you can spread it onto the pie. Add more milk gradually until you have it just right.
- Add the mashed potatoes to the pie by gradually placing tablespoons of it along the dish.
- Using the back of the spoon pull the potatoes along until the dish is covered evenly. To make the ridges like I have in the photo below, use the edge of the spoon to lift the potato slightly up in some places.
- Put in the middle part of the oven for 30 minutes at 200°C, or 180°C if a fan oven.
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If you want, you can put the pie dish under the grill, but I prefer to put it in the oven. The oven is able to heat up the ingredients and cooks the topping all the way through. You still get that lovely crispy taste to the potatoes.
Recipe for the best tasty cottage pie
L.M.Reid
Extra Ingredients
You can add parsley, mixed herbs, tomatoes, or tomato puree to the pot as you are cooking the mince filling. You can also add a dash of Worcestershire or Tobago sauce. It all depends on your individual taste. I prefer mine with just the ingredients I have used in this recipe, but the filling of the pie can be changed around all the time if you wish.
The potato topping can be changed by adding half the amount of potatoes and cooking some parsnips or turnips for the other half. Or once you have spread the potatoes on top of the pie you can grate some cheese over it.
Salt and Pepper
I do not add salt and pepper for health reasons relating to some of my family. For those of us who are allowed salt we add it when it is dished up on our individual plates. The cottage pie would taste better if you add the salt and pepper in the mince and in the potatoes as you cook them if you can.
Recipe for homemade cottage pie
L.M.Reid
How to Freeze Cottage Pie
I used 650 grams of mince when I cooked the above cottage pie because I wanted to freeze some of it. I made two family size cottage pies and one smaller one. I let the pie filling go completely cold in the two oven dishes I would cook them in later. I placed a large plastic bag over them and put them in the freezer.
Defrosting
When I know I want to have cottage pie for that evening's dinner, I take the filling out of the freezer and put it in the fridge that morning to defrost. Then I cook the potatoes and add to the filling. I put it in a preheated oven for 30 minutes at the low heat of 140 c and then higher it to 200 c for another 20 minutes.
Cottage Pie
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