Brown's Cottage Pie

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• 750 g ground beef (that's 1/3 of a 5 lb chub)
• 1 onion, diced
• 3 stalks celery, sliced
• 450 g mushrooms, cubed
• 100 g frozen peas
• 100 g frozen lima beans
• 100 g frozen french-cut green beans
• 1 (284 ml) can condensed beef broth
• 5 ml montreal steak spice
• 45 ml hp steak sauce
• 3 ml worcestershire sauce
• 1 turnip, peeled and cubed
• 900 g red potatoes, peeled and cubed
• 30 ml butter
• 60 ml milk
• 5 ml garlic salt
• 30 ml dried chives

Recipe

• 1 set the oven to 400°f.
• 2 boil a large pot of water, add turnips and potatoes.
• 3 in a large wok or saucepan, fry ground beef until cooked, lift out beef and use fat to fry onions.
• 4 when onions begin to caramelize, add celery and continue to fry.
• 5 when celery is cooked, add mushrooms and continue to fry.
• 6 put beef back in pan, add peas, lima beans, green beans, broth, montreal steak spice, hp sauce, and worcestershire sauce. reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• 7 drain potatoes and turnip, mash them. add butter, milk, garlic salt, and chives, mix and mash thoroughly.
• 8 grease a 13x9 pan with butter. pour in meat and vegetables, pack them down flat and even across pan. spread mashed potatoes on top. i like to use plastic trowels to first get the top perfectly flat, and then use a notched trowel to put a wavy texture on it. the pie may be covered with foil and refrigerated at this point if you wish. bake at 400°f for 35 minutes, preferably with a convection fan, turning the pan around halfway through to brown the topping evenly.