Cottage Pie Meal

Name: Cottage Pie Meal
Cuisine: South African
Ingredients: 200 g beef mince; 1 cup bread crumbs; 1 egg; 1/2 onion chopped; 1/2 green pepper chopped; 1 tsp Garlic and ginger paste; 1 tblsp BBQ spice and 1 tblsp peri-peri spice; 3 medium sized potatoes; 40 ml milk; 10 g butter; Mixed herbs; Half Butternut (peeled and chopped up); 3 large carrots (peeled and sliced up); 250 ml rice; Turmeric; 2 sticks stick cinnamon; to taste Salt

Aqilah Lakay @cook_16828056

Cape Town, South Africa

I love cottage pie! This is one meal I cook quite frequently as there is usually leftovers which I am able to have the next day or take to work for lunch. I serve it with sweet yellow rice and a butternut/carrot side as it perfectly complements the cottage pie and brings the entire meal together. It's extremely filling and totally worth the effort! Enjoy 😃

Aqilah Lakay @cook_16828056

Cape Town, South Africa

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Ingredients

200 gbeef mince
1 cupbread crumbs
1egg
1/2onion chopped
1/2green pepper chopped
1 tspGarlic and ginger paste
1tblsp BBQ spice and 1 tblsp peri-peri spice
Mash
3medium sized potatoes
40 mlmilk
10 gbutter
Mixed herbs
Sides
HalfButternut (peeled and chopped up)
3large carrots (peeled and sliced up)
Rice
250 mlrice
Turmeric
2 sticksstick cinnamon
to tasteSalt

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Steps

1

Put the rice in a pot, covered in 400ml water. Add the turmeric and stick cinnamon (with some salt to taste) and allow it to cook until ready.
2

Put the peeled and chopped Butternut and carrots in a mini pot and cover with water (with some salt to taste) and cook until veggies are soft enough to be poked with a fork.
3

Peel and chop up the potatoes and follow the same procedure as mentioned above.
4

Rinse the mince and place it in a pirex/glass dish. Add the chopped onion and green pepper and then add the egg. Add bread crumbs and thereafter mix thoroughly adding spices as desired.
5

Use a tblsp of oil to line the pie dish around the ends of the pie so that it doesn't turn dry whilst in the oven.
6

Place the cottage pie in the oven and allow to cook until mince is brown.
7

Once rice is done place it in a strainer and rinse with clean cold water. Once that is done, sprinkle rice with 3 tblsp of sugar and ensure that sugar is evenly distributed.
8

Once veggies are soft enough to be poked with a fork remove them from the stove and place in another strainer, rinse with cold water and follow the same procedure as mentioned above.
9

Once potatoes are soft, take it off the stove. Rinse with cold water and place it back onto the stove. Add the butter and milk and mash it with a fork. Do add some peri-peri spice/fisherman spice to give the mash some flavour.
10

Once the mince has browned in the oven cover the pie with the mash and decorate it with a fork. Sprinkle the mixed herbs over and place it back into the oven for approx. 10/15 minutes. When cottage pie is ready, the meal can be served as intended.