Recipe of Award-winning Mini Cottage Pies With Potato Nests

Mini Cottage Pies With Potato Nests. We've teamed up with the Children's Food Trust to make Cottage Pie with a twist. A guaranteed nice and quick supper. Didn't know what to cook, so I whipped up this delicious cottage pie with the ingredients I had on hand.

Buttery and flaky pie dough is shaped into cute mini hand pies and filled with homemade lemon curd! Our version of this classic comfort food is made with garlic mashed potatoes and flavorful ground beef. You need your potatoes still warm if you intend to pipe them.

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We've teamed up with the Children's Food Trust to make Cottage Pie with a twist. A guaranteed nice and quick supper. Didn't know what to cook, so I whipped up this delicious cottage pie with the ingredients I had on hand.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have mini cottage pies with potato nests using 15 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Mini Cottage Pies With Potato Nests:

1. {Take of jacket potatoes.
2. {Take of lean beef mince.
3. {Prepare of onions.
4. {Prepare of gram (chickpea) flour.
5. {Take of finely diced carrot.
6. {Make ready of finely diced celery stick.
7. {Get of tomato puree.
8. {Prepare of bay leaves.
9. {Make ready of garlic, crushed.
10. {Take of mixed herbs.
11. {Get of salt.
12. {Prepare of tomatoes.
13. {Get of olive oil.
14. {Prepare of hot water.
15. {Take of grated cheddar cheese.

If they are cold they will not pipe well. Drain and mash to a coarse consistency with butter, salt and pepper. Mix the remaining ingredients together and divide between the cavities. Mini Cottage Pies is a classic main meal dish, perfect for weeknight dinners.

Instructions to make Mini Cottage Pies With Potato Nests:

1. Peel and quarter the jacket potatoes and boil until tender. Drain and allow to cool..
2. In a large saucepan, fry the onions, celery, carrot and garlic gently in the olive oil for 10 minutes..
3. Tip the vegetables out into a bowl, set this to one side and then brown the mince in the saucepan for about 5 minutes. Pour off any water that comes out of the mince..
4. Add the vegetables back into the saucepan with the mince. Sprinkle the veg and mince with the gram flour and stir well..
5. Add the tomato puree, mixed herbs, hot water, salt, tomatoes and bay leaves into the saucepan and leave to simmer, with the lid off, for 40 minutes..
6. Coarsely grate all of the boiled potatoes..
7. Lightly oil 12 cupcake tins with olive oil. Spoon the grated potatoes into the wells. Use the spoon to make little nests, ensuring the bases aren’t too thin..
8. Bake the nests in the oven at 200°C for 20-25 minutes until starting to turn golden brown..
9. Spoon the cottage pie filling into each nest and top with grated cheese..
10. Bake in the oven at 200°C for a further 20-25 minutes until the cheese is bubbling and starting to brown..
11. Serve with salad or steamed vegetables..

A delicious beef and vegetable base with a layer of fluffy mashed potatoes. Baked until golden and served with a side salad, this gorgeous meal will keep the whole family happy - give it a go! Drain well, then mash with the butter. When the potatoes are cooked, slice them in half, scoop out the flesh and pass through a potato ricer into a saucepan. To assemble the cottage pie, spoon the cooked mince into a baking dish and pipe the mashed potato on top.

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