Simple Way to Prepare Quick Cottage Pie
Hello everybody, it's Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, Recipe of Favorite Cottage Pie. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I'm gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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As for the number of servings that can be served to make Cottage Pie is 6 servings. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook Cottage Pie using 21 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
I always called this shepherd’s pie but technically it’s not shepherd’s pie because there’s no lamb in it. This is my version of cottage pie with ground beef, sausage, and vegetables. I serve it in individual ramekins that are deep, topped with my homemade mashed potatoes but it can be put into one dish and then served in individual portions.
Ingredients and spices that need to be Take to make Cottage Pie:
- 4 strips bacon
- 2 Hot Italian sausages
- 1 lbs ground beef
- 4 large mushrooms diced
- 2 celery stalks diced
- 2 carrots diced
- 1 Jalapeño diced
- 2 Garlic cloves minced
- 1.5 cups beef broth
- 1/2 cup red wine
- 1 container veal/beef Demi-glacé (see picture below)
- 2 Tbsp tomato paste
- 2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- 1 tsp Dried rosemary crushed
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 tsp black pepper
- 3 slices provolone cheese
- 4 cups homemade mashed potatoes (see my cheesy mashed potatoes recipe)
- 2 Tbsp grated Romano cheese
- 1 cup 4-cheese blend
Instructions to make Cottage Pie
- Cook bacon in a pan until crisp and reserve for topping the pie. Remove sausage from their casings. Mix with hamburger. To a large pan or pot add the sausage and hamburger and cook until browned. Remove cooked meat to a bowl. Add vegetables to pan and cook until softened. remove from heat. Add garlic and cook for one minute. Add red wine and cook for 5 minutes to remove alcohol.
- Add in cooked meat, beef stock, Demi-glacé, tomato paste, Worcestershire sauce, thyme, rosemary, salt and pepper. Bring to a simmer and cook to thicken to a sauce consistency, about 20 minutes. If needed you can add an equal parts slurry of corn starch and water (start with 1/2 tsp corn starch).
- Spoon mixture into individual ramekins. Fill 1/2 way. Next layer provolone cheese. Cover with a layer of mashed potatoes and sprinkle 4-cheese mixture and Romano cheese on top.
- Top each ramekin with bacon. Place on a sheet pan in a 400°F oven. Bake about 20 minutes to melt cheese and heat throughout. Serve hot and enjoy.
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