Cottage Pie
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- Prep Time 30 minutes
- Total Time 1 hour, 15 minutes
- Yield Serves 6
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 1 large yellow onion, diced medium
- 2 large carrots, cut into 3/4-inch pieces
- Coarse salt and ground pepper
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 1 pound ground beef or lamb
- 2 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves
- 1 cup dark (porter) beer
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup frozen peas
- 1 large russet potato (3/4 pound), very thinly sliced
Directions
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Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a large skillet, heat 1 tablespoon butter over medium-high. Add onion and carrots and cook, stirring often, until onion is soft, 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper and stir in tomato paste. Add meat and cook, breaking up with a wooden spoon, until almost cooked through, 3 minutes. Add thyme and beer and bring to a boil. Cook, stirring frequently, until slightly reduced, 2 minutes. Sprinkle flour over mixture and stir to combine. Add 1 cup water and cook until mixture thickens, about 2 minutes. Stir in peas and season with salt and pepper.
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Transfer mixture to a 2-quart baking dish. Top with potatoes, overlapping slices. Season potatoes with salt and pepper and drizzle with 2 tablespoons butter. Bake until potatoes are browned around edges and tender when pierced with a knife, 40 to 45 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes before serving.
Cook's Note
To store, let cool completely, cover with foil, and refrigerate, up to 3 days. Reheat, covered, in a 350 degree oven until warmed through.
This was absolutely delicious! Made the recipe exactly according to directions.
This recipe is beautiful and delicious. I made it for a new mom, and I was so impressed with the result I made it 2 days later for my family.
The beer really adds flavor to a traditional recipe. I make it with either thinly sliced potatoes or mashed and cover for the last 5 minutes of baking. Feel free to add mushrooms and double recipe to serve six. It really barely is enough for three because it is very good and everyone will want just a little more until it is gone.
Really, really easy and tasty! I used ground turkey and added sliced portabellos, turnips and used red wine because I didn't have beer. Great Sunday night winter dinner!
We love this and now add it to our monthly regulars. We use the mashed potatoes instead and have been using Pyramid's Snow Cap seasonal ale in it (because that is what hubby bought). I'm interested to try it with the porter beer.
Very good recipe, loved the potatoes sliced rather than mashed, didn't quite serve 4 (only seconds for 3 :-( ) We thought doubling the meat and vegies under the same amount of potatoes would do the trick.
Good recipe I just used Shiner beer and it was great. Although I enjoyed the potatoes on top sliced. The husband thinks it would be better with the mashed potatoes.