Cottage Pie

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1 lb ground beef
• 1 yellow onion
• 1 vegetable bouillon cube
• 1/2 cup peas (can be frozen)
• 6 large baking potatoes
• 1 -2 teaspoon browning sauce (optional)
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 2 tablespoons cold water
• milk (to taste)
• butter (to taste)

Recipe

• 1 peel and chop up the potatoes into large chunks and put on too boil in a pot. this will take about 20 minutes. while the potatoes are cooking, you can start cooking the meat.
• 2 chop up the onion and fry in a pan until almost golden brown. add the ground beef and break it all up and cook until no longer red in colour.
• 3 turn on the oven and preheat a deep baking dish in there.
• 4 add the vegetable cube and make sure it is broken up and mixed inches
• 5 throw in the peas and mix them into the meat and continue to simmer. at this point, you can add a teaspoon or two of browning or seasoning sauce to the meat, and tip in some of the water from the potatoes. keep simmering the meat in the pan.
• 6 the potatoes should be almost cooked - you can test them by sticking a knife into them. if the knife sinks in easily, they're done. pour off the water and save some of it in case you need more for the meat / sauce.
• 7 mix up two tablespoons of corn-starch with two tablespoons of cold water in a saucer. when it's all mixed into a liquid, pour this into the meat and stir in quickly. the water in the dish will thicken, continue to simmer and stir occasionally to make sure the corn-starch is cooked through.
• 8 mash the potatoes with a little milk and butter. take the baking dish out of the oven, and pour in the meat. it will make a satisfying sizzle. spoon the mashed potatoes on top of the meat until they fill the baking dish to the top. use a folk to make ridges all along the top of the potatoes.
• 9 put the dish back under the grill and brown the top of the potatoes.