Cottage pie
Made with beef mince rather than the lamb used in shepherd's pie, cottage pie is a comforting dish that's perfect for hearty lunches or dinners
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Total time: 50 mins
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Makes: 1
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Skill level: Easy peasy
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Costs: Cheap as chips
Ingredients
Use a very hot heavy-based frying pan (not a saucepan) to dry-fry your mince. If it's not hot enough, the mince will stew and become grey and unappetising.
- 500g (18oz) beef mince
- 1 onion, sliced
- 2tbsp tomato purée
- 3tbsp ketchup
- 1tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 100ml (3½ fl oz) rich beef stock
- 410g tin flageolet beans
- 10 frozen hash browns
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200°C, 400°F, gas 6. Dry-fry the mince until browned then drain and set aside.
- Add a little oil to the pan and cook the onion until soft. Add the mince back to the pan along with the tomato purée, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, stock and beans. Mix well, season with salt and black pepper and cook until heated through.
- Transfer to an ovenproof baking dish and arrange the hash browns on top.
- Bake in the oven for 30 mins or until the hash browns are golden and cooked through. Serve with peas or broccoli.
Nutritional information
Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.
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Maureen Hutton, posted 5 months ago
What lovely scrumpious recipes on your website - certainly going to recommend that my friends go on your site.
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Andrew Smith, posted 11 months ago
Probably tastier and cheaper to make mash for the topping!
