Recipe: Perfect Cottage Pie

Cottage Pie. Proper English Cottage Pie is a delicious, very traditional mince pie (beef) topped with mashed potato. Cottage pie is a combination of ground lamb or beef with mashed potatoes, topped with a bubbling layer of cheese is the perfect comfort food. Cottage pie is a classic dish that comes from the UK and Ireland.

A pie dish would be lined at the sides and bottom with mashed potato. A traditional cottage pie is made with ground beef and topped with mashed potatoes. We used potato slices, which saves time and looks good, too. You can have Cottage Pie using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Cottage Pie

1. You need 2 pounds of ground turkey (or whatever you have.).
2. You need 1 bag of frozen mixed vegetables.
3. It's 1 bag of frozen corn.
4. It's 1 tablespoon of cornstarch.
5. Prepare 1 cup of V8 juice.
6. Prepare 3 tablespoons of butter.
7. Prepare of Potato Top.
8. It's 6-8 of potatoes, washed, peeled, chopped.
9. You need 2 tablespoons of butter.
10. You need of milk or V8 juice to desired consistency.

For a shepherd's pie, use lamb. Boil the potatoes until soft and mash them with the milk until smooth and creamy. Spoon the meat mixture into a gratin dish and cover with a thick, even layer of mashed potato. Cottage Pie and Shepherd's Pie are both savory meat pies with a crust or topping of mashed potatoes.

Cottage Pie instructions

1. Begin with the potatoes. Boil on stove until bottom hash is ready to combine..
2. Grease skillet with butter and brown meat..
3. Add frozen vegetables and cook till thawed..
4. Add tablespoon of cornstarch to 1 cup of V8 juice. Stir till dissolved and pour over hash. Cook to a simmer..
5. Drain potatoes and mash with butter and milk (add till you have the potatoes as thick or thin as you want.) If you are out of milk, use V8 juice..
6. Dump hash into a glass casserole dish, 9x13 works best..
7. Spoon potatoes on top and spread to desired coverage..
8. Place in preheated oven of 400 Fahrenheit. Bake for 20-30 minutes or until potatoes are browned..

Traditionally, Shepherd's Pie is made with ground or minced lamb, while a Cottage Pie is made with ground or minced beef. We prefer beef in this house, so the Cottage Pie has always been our preference! Why is Cottage Pie called "Cottage Pie?" Cottage pie is a meat pie that is topped with mashed potatoes and baked in the oven. Now, cottage pie and shepherd's pie differ only in the type of ground meat they are made with. At its most basic, cottage pie is a meat pie (or casserole) that is topped with mashed potatoes rather than a pie crust.