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Shepherd's or Cottage Pie

by Editorial Staff

Summary

Prep Time 30 mins
Cook Time 1 hr
Total Time 1 hr 30 mins
Course Main Course
Cuisine European
Servings (Default: 2)

Ingredients

  • 30 g fat
  • 1 onion (s)
  • 400 g minced lamb or beef
  • 25 g flour
  • 0.25 liter ¼ meat broth
  • 1 pinch (s) salt and pepper
  • 2 teaspoons mustard
  • 2 teaspoons tomato ketchup
  • 500 g potato (s)
  • 30 g butter
  • milk
  • in Butter, flakes
  • salt
Shepherd`s or Cottage Pie
Shepherd`s or Cottage Pie

Instructions

  1. Use ground lamb for a Shepherd`s Pie and ground beef for the Cottage Pie.
  2. Heat the fat in the saucepan, add 1 large chopped onion, fry the mince for about 3 minutes, add flour, roast and stir well. Pour in almost 1/4 liter of stock and simmer while stirring, season with pepper, salt, mustard and ketchup.
  3. Grease a baking dish and add the mince.
  4. Cook the potatoes in salted water until cooked, drain and mash them with 30 g butter and warm milk to a firm pulp.
  5. Carefully place on the minced meat and draw a pattern (plowed field) over it with a fork. Put a few more flakes of butter on the mashed potatoes and sprinkle a little salt over them.
  6. Preheat the oven and bake at 200 ° C for 20-30 minutes, then let it turn golden yellow at 180 ° C in approx. 20 minutes.
  7. Good Appetite !
Editorial Staff

About Editorial Staff

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