{"id":4724,"date":"2025-05-15T14:26:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T14:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/?p=4724"},"modified":"2025-06-11T11:56:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T11:56:38","slug":"cottage-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/?p=4724","title":{"rendered":"Cottage and Shepperd Pie Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sFlh5c FyHeAf iPVvYb\" src=\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/30\/2020\/08\/cottage_pie-115b981.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=500,454\" alt=\"Cottage pie recipes | Good Food\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have been making a few of these cottage or shepherd&#8217;s pies, so I thought I would document the recipe, which is essentially the same for both pies, except that the meat used is Beef for Cottage Pie and Lamb for shepherd&#8217;s pie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1000g \/ 2 X 500g minced beef or minced Lamb<\/li>\n<li>3 tablespoons of olive oil<\/li>\n<li>2 onions<\/li>\n<li>3 carrots<\/li>\n<li>3 celery sticks<\/li>\n<li>2 cloves of garlic<\/li>\n<li>3 Tablespoons of flour<\/li>\n<li>Maybe a cup of frozen peas<\/li>\n<li>1 or 2 tablespoons of tomato puree<\/li>\n<li>500- 800 ml of beef stock\/chicken stock will also do<\/li>\n<li>Thyme \/ Bay leaf<\/li>\n<li>Salt, Black Pepper, White Pepper, Piments de l&#8217;Espelette<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>1.8kg of potatoes<\/li>\n<li>200ml Milk<\/li>\n<li>25g of butter<\/li>\n<li>200g grated cheddar<\/li>\n<li>nutmeg \/ Salt \/ Pepper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How to Make:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brown the meat with some olive oil in a creuset pot \/ do in batches \/ put aside<\/li>\n<li>Stir the chopped carrots, onion, and celery until tender (10-15 minutes). This should lift the suck from the Creuset pot.<\/li>\n<li>Add the tomato puree and garlic, then return the meat to the pot. Strong heat.<\/li>\n<li>Add chicken stock, thyme, and Bay leaf; cook for 10-15 minutes. (want the juices to concentrate and evaporate).<\/li>\n<li>Add a bit of flour to make the juices stick to the meat.<\/li>\n<li>Season with Salt and Pepper and taste.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Make the mash with the potatoes. Add butter, milk, and most of the cheddar. Keep some to make the top crust.<\/li>\n<li>Season well with salt, pepper and the nutmeg.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Put meat\/vegetables and peas in the bottom of an oven dish.<\/li>\n<li>Cover with the mashed potatoes, make some pattern with a fork<\/li>\n<li>Cover with the remaining cheddar.<\/li>\n<li>Put into the oven at fan-assisted 180 degrees for 30 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Add a bit of parsley on top at the very end to make it pretty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4724 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/?attachment_id=4743'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0094-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/?attachment_id=4744'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0093-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been making a few of these cottage or shepherd&#8217;s pies, so I thought I would document the recipe, which is essentially the same for both pies, except that the meat used is Beef for Cottage Pie and Lamb &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/?p=4724\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4724"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4746,"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions\/4746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}