Simple Way to Prepare Mini Cottage Pies With Potato Nests

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Make these single-serving comfort food classics for your freezer for easy homemade weeknight meals, or for your kids to take for lunch! Make these mini potato hash bites in a pie maker, top with some. Mini Cottage Pies is a classic main meal dish, perfect for weeknight dinners.

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Easiest Way to Prepare Mini Cottage Pies With Potato Nests

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook mini cottage pies with potato nests using 15 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Mini Cottage Pies With Potato Nests:

1. Prepare 5 jacket potatoes
2. Make ready 500 g lean beef mince
3. Make ready 2 onions
4. Take 2 tbsp gram (chickpea) flour
5. Take 1 finely diced carrot
6. Make ready 1 finely diced celery stick
7. Prepare 2 tbsp tomato puree
8. Make ready 2 bay leaves
9. Take 2 cloves garlic, crushed
10. Prepare 1 tsp mixed herbs
11. Take 1/2 tsp salt
12. Prepare 1 tin tomatoes
13. Prepare 1 tbsp olive oil
14. Take 250 mls hot water
15. Take 30 g grated cheddar cheese

This Cottage Pie recipe is topped with cheesy, creamy, sliced potatoes - a modern variation of a British classic. All Too often Cottage Pie is a flavorless, soupy meat mixture topped with a mushy topping. This recipe changes all of that. The thick, rich gravy is absolutely delicious and the topping will knock.

Instructions

Instructions to make Mini Cottage Pies With Potato Nests:

1. Peel and quarter the jacket potatoes and boil until tender. Drain and allow to cool.
2. In a large saucepan, fry the onions, celery, carrot and garlic gently in the olive oil for 10 minutes.
3. Tip the vegetables out into a bowl, set this to one side and then brown the mince in the saucepan for about 5 minutes. Pour off any water that comes out of the mince.
4. Add the vegetables back into the saucepan with the mince. Sprinkle the veg and mince with the gram flour and stir well.
5. Add the tomato puree, mixed herbs, hot water, salt, tomatoes and bay leaves into the saucepan and leave to simmer, with the lid off, for 40 minutes.
6. Coarsely grate all of the boiled potatoes.
7. Lightly oil 12 cupcake tins with olive oil. Spoon the grated potatoes into the wells. Use the spoon to make little nests, ensuring the bases aren’t too thin.
8. Bake the nests in the oven at 200°C for 20-25 minutes until starting to turn golden brown.
9. Spoon the cottage pie filling into each nest and top with grated cheese.
10. Bake in the oven at 200°C for a further 20-25 minutes until the cheese is bubbling and starting to brown.
11. Serve with salad or steamed vegetables.

Mini Cottage Pies is a classic main meal dish, perfect for weeknight dinners. A delicious beef and vegetable base with a layer of fluffy mashed potatoes. Baked until golden and served with a side salad, this gorgeous meal will keep the whole family happy - give it a go! This updated version of the classic cottage pie recipe includes trendy sweet potato and white cannellini beans. Cover partially and heat to boiling on high.

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