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Recipe cottage pie is very easy, recipe for cottage pie has been one of my favourite pie preparation and my childhood best. This was as a result of my cranny strange likeness for cottage pie, I guess it’s the legacy bequeathed to me for been closer to her than even my parents could be comfortable with. She was a professional in recipe cottage pie and a popular figure in the city. She taught me everything about cottage pie which I started preparing at a very tender age of six, since then I have been over addicted to cottage pie than anyone could imagine and can easily give out recipe cottage pie in my dreams.

Recipe for Cottage Pie

The following is the detailed step by step recipe for cottage pie:

Begin recipe for cottage pie by cutting 2 ib potatoes in a cube. Pour enough water that can cover the potatoes into a pot and cook it on oven, immediately the water boils bring it down and add the potatoes, then put it back on the oven and reduce the heat of the oven and let the potatoes to boil for about 20 minutes.

Then get the vegetable ready, make use of one medium carrot, one medium of onion, one celery and also carrot dice, celery, onion and put them in a pan. Then gather the other ingredients like one teaspoon of flour, one teaspoon of dried rosemarys, one cup of beef broth, and one pound of ground beefs.

By now the potatoes on the oven might have done, remove it from the pot and pour the water away but make sure you save 1 cup of the water. Then crush the potatoes with 1-1/2 Tbs. butter, the 1 cup of the saved water, then mix salt and ground black pepper to taste as you crush.

When finished crushing the potatoes, warm 3Tbs butter in the pot over an average heat. Then mix carrots, dice onions, celery and blend the vegetable until it is covered with layer. Minimize the heat to average and blend it until about 20 minutes. Now heat your oven to almost 399°F. Then put ground meats. Make use of spoon to cut the ground meat apart as you are cooking it. While you are cooking the ground meat make sure you continue blending or stirring it until the pink colour disappears.

Then move the pot to a sloppy side so as to allow the excess fat to accumulate in one corner, use spoon to scoop the fat out.

Then add 1-1/2 Tbs flour to it. Add and cook it for some minutes as you continue to turn it, and the flour is added in order to help thicken up the gravy which will be prepared later in this mixtures. It will be cooked in some minutes in order to avoid the raw flour test when we finished cooking.

Then put the beef stock, dried thyme, dried rosemary, and nutmeg. Continue cooking while at the same time turning it until the liquid becomes thick, up to 6 minutes. As the gravy is getting thick, add black ground pepper and salt. Then put the mixtures of the meat into a bake pan.

Then cover the mixture of meat with the crushed potatoes and patting the top of the potatoes using fork. You may also use the fork to carve a pattern in the potatoes to produce a crust.

Then cut two Tbs. of butter in pieces and spread it on the potatoes top. And cover it with a good amount of paprika.

Put the cottege pie into the oven on a rack in the middle of the oven. The potatoes will form the golden brown crust after twenty nine minutes. Then withdraw it from the oven and let it cool for about 15 minutes before you start serving to people.

Recipe Cottage Pie