Cottage Pie

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Cottage Pie vs Shepard's Pie

Pretty much the same stuff inside. Cottage Pie is made from beef and Shepard's Pie is made from lamb. Not too crazy about lamb so I make the beef version.

Cottage Pie!

Ingredients:

3lbs Ground beef

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 2 Carrots - chopped

2 Celery stocks - chopped

1 Yellow onion - chopped

3 Garlic cloves - chopped

1c Frozen Peas

2 c Beef stock

4T butter

4T flour

Pinch of Rosemary

Pinch of Thyme

Salt/Pepper to taste

2T Worchester Sauce

Paprika - Smoked if you have it

5 or 6 large russet potatoes - made into mashed potatoes

Directions:

• In a LARGE skillet brown the beef and drain any excess fat. You should not salt meat until it is at least browned. Reason is if you salt the beef when it is still raw you will extract all the moisture out of the beef and it will be very dry. So brown the beef first.
• Add Thyme, Rosemary and Salt/Pepper to taste
• Add chopped veggies and cook until veggies are soft - Bout 10 minutes
• Easy roux - Put butter in a micro safe bowl and add flour. Micro for about 20 seconds until butter is barely melted. Then mix
• Add roux to skillet and let cook for a couple of minutes
• Add Worchester Sauce
• Add beef stock and let cook about 5 minutes to absorb most of the moisture.
• Mix in frozen peas. No need to thaw the oven will take care of that.
• You can also add about 1/2c red wine if you like. Just let it cook down about 5 more minutes if you do add the wine.

Put the meat in a casserole dish. Top with mashed potatoes. Sprinkle paprika then bake about 40 minutes at 400 degrees. Let sit for about 10 or 15 minutes then eat up!



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