Cottage Pie Recipe

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This "Cottage Pie Recipe," is a fairly simple dish that gets its rustic roots in the United Kingdom. Cottage pie also known as shepherd's pie when the meat is lamb, is a traditional recipe cooked by shepherds and farmers.

In the United States lamb is not as popular as ground beef, so most modern cottage pie recipes are made with ground beef. In this cottage pie recipe a few additional seasoning are added to really make the flavors pop. This delicious cottage pie recipe is perfect for a meal on its own, there is no need to serve it with side, although some leftover Yorkshire pudding would go well. Some of the ingredients you will need for this recipe include lean ground beef, chopped onion, chopped carrots, potatoes, butter, beef broth, Worcestershire sauce, seasonings, and shredded cheddar cheese. To start you will preheat your oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Peel and quarter the potatoes, and boil in lightly salted water for about 20 minutes or until tender. At this time you can melt some butter in a large frying pan, and salute the onions and carrots in the butter until tender about ten minutes.

A cottage pie or shepherd's pie is typically a meat pie with a crust of mashed potato. The term cottage pie was in use by 1791, when potatoes were being introduced as an edible crop affordable for the poor, cottage would mean a modest dwelling for rural workers. In early cook books, the recipe was a means of using leftover roasted meat of any kind, and the pie dish was lined with mashed potato as well as having a mashed potato crust on top. More recently people have used the term shepherd's pie when the meat is lamb, but in America it is called the same when ground beef is used.

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