Easy, Low Fat Cottage Pie
Easy, Low Fat Cottage Pie

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, easy, low fat cottage pie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

The flour will absorb the fat that comes out of the meat, which will then. Make a hearty cottage pie for the family. Our recipes include traditional, spicy chilli, sweet potato, beef bourguignon and We've taken the humble cottage pie to the next level by giving it defined layers, fluffier mash and a rarebit topping with A quick cottage pie that uses low-fat buttermilk in the mash.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook easy, low fat cottage pie using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Easy, Low Fat Cottage Pie:
  1. Make ready 120 g lean 5% fat beef mince,
  2. Get 425 g mash potato, (ready made, available in most supermarkets),
  3. Make ready Half an onion, chopped finely,
  4. Prepare Half a large vine tomato, chopped finely,
  5. Make ready 1/2 tsp dried parsley,
  6. Get 1/2 tsp garlic granules,
  7. Prepare 4 tsp beef gravy granules,
  8. Take 1 good dash or two of Worcester sauce,
  9. Make ready 100 ml water, boiled,
  10. Get Salt and pepper to season,
  11. Get 30 g 50% reduced fat cheddar cheese, grated,
  12. Get 7 g unsalted butter, (around 1/2 tbsp),
  13. Make ready Frylight for frying, I used sunflower oil,
  14. Take Dried parsley to garnish. (Optional)

Serve the cottage pie with the peas. To stop the mash leaking into the filling below (and. Love this classic dish calorie cut? Once you have the basic concept, cottage pie is a great way to clean out your fridge of bits of veggies and leftover mashed For our easy cottage pie recipe, we're sticking with a simple filling and just adding carrots to the beef.

Instructions to make Easy, Low Fat Cottage Pie:
  1. Preheat the oven to 180 (fan). In a medium saucepan over a medium heat add Frylight to cover the base of the pan. Once warm add the chopped onions and cook whilst stirring occasionally for around 4-5 minutes until they soften and begin to turn translucent.
  2. Add in the beef mince and break up into small pieces in the saucepan and mix together with the onions. Season with salt and pepper. Add a couple more sprays of Frylight if it's needed so the meat doesn't dry out or stick to the pan. Once the meat is browned add the dry herbs and garlic and combine.
  3. Boil 100ml of water and set aside. Add in the chopped tomato to the saucepan. Cook for another minute whilst stirring occasionally. Add the beef gravy granules and Worcester sauce then the boiled water, stir everything together. Leave to simmer over a medium to low heat until the sauce reduces by half and thickens.
  4. Turn off the hob and set the meat mixture aside. Take the ready made mash, (you can of course make your own, but this is for convenience in this instance and it's available to buy in the fresh section of most supermarkets). Microwave the mash for two minutes to soften. Add the butter to the mash plus a little salt and pepper to season and give a mix so it's a nice soft, smooth consistency.
  5. Spoon the meat mixture into a perspex/oven proof dish, and even out flat with the back of a spoon. Next add the fluffy mash on top, and using a fork neatly take it right up to the sides so it completely covers the meat layer and there's no gaps, this is to prevent leaks. Sprinkle over the grated cheese neatly, right up to the edges.
  6. Bake the cottage pie on a middle shelf until warmed through for around 15-20 minutes, until the cheese is golden and bubbly. Note: If you want, for the final 5 mins of cooking you can grill it to get the cheese even more golden.
  7. Remove from the oven and garnish with a little dried parsley. This is lovely served on its own or with some vegetables on the side. Enjoy! :)

We use leftover mashed potatoes for the. Cottage pie was originally an old English recipe invented as a way to make the leftover meat from a Sunday roast go further, chopping the meat into small chunks, mixing with veg and onions and making a stock from leftover bones. Topped with mash and baked this provided an extra meal for families. Our easy and classic cottage pie made with ground beef and potatoes is a stick-to-the-ribs comfort food dish. There are many variations on the recipe.

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