American
Cottage Pie
Cottage Pie is American home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1.5 lb ground beef
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion
- 3 garlic cloves
- 2 carrots
- 1 celery stalk
- 2 tbsp all-purpose flour
- 2 tbsp tomato paste
- 1.5 cups beef broth
- 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- 1 cup frozen peas
- 2 lb russet potatoes
- 4 tbsp butter
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- 1/2 cup shredded cheddar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
How to cook it
- Peel and boil the potatoes in salted water until tender, about 18 minutes, then mash with the butter, milk, and half the salt.
- Heat the oven to 400F and warm the olive oil in an oven-safe skillet over medium-high.
- Brown the ground beef, then add the onion, garlic, carrots, and celery and cook 6 minutes.
- Stir in the flour and tomato paste for 1 minute, then pour in the broth and Worcestershire and simmer until thick, about 8 minutes; stir in the thyme, peas, and remaining salt.
- Spread the mashed potatoes over the filling and top with the shredded cheddar.
- Bake until the top is golden, about 25 minutes, then rest 5 minutes before serving.
Serve it with
A American dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Cottage Pie, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Cottage Pie carries dairy, gluten, and fish. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Almond Vanilla Chia Pudding |
| Gluten | Yes | Almond Vanilla Chia Pudding |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Almond Vanilla Chia Pudding |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Meat or fish, Vegetables, and Dairy
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Cottage Pie takes about 70 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on beef, potato, and carrot.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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