20 minute preparation
Classic Cottage Pie
1½ hours cooking
Serves: 4
Ingredients:
- 1tbsp sunflower oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 carrots, chopped
- 600g beef mince
- 1 x 400g tin Tarantella Organic Chopped Tomatoes
- 2tbsp Tarantella Organic Tomato Paste
- 290ml beef stock
- 1 bay leaf
- Sprig of thyme leaves
- Salt and pepper
- 1kg potatoes, peeled and chopped
- 100g butter
- 55ml milk
- 100g extra mature
- Cheddar cheese, grated
- 2tbsp grated Parmesan
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/Gas Mark 5.
- Heat the oil in a large pan. Add the onion and carrots and cook over a medium heat for five minutes until soft.
- Add the minced beef and cook for three minutes, breaking up the meat all the time, to brown evenly.
- Add the tomatoes, tomato paste, beef stock, bay and thyme leaves. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, then cover and simmer for 30 minutes.
- Boil the potatoes in salted water for 20 minutes. Drain and mash with the butter and milk. Add the Cheddar cheese, stir well and season well with salt and pepper.
- Spoon the meat mixture into an ovenproof dish. Remove the bay leaf. Top the meat mixture with the cheesy mash, then sprinkle the top with Parmesan.
- Bake in the oven for 30 minutes and serve immediately.
Recipe courtesy of Tarantella
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