Cottage Pie With Hidden Veggies
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 23
- Yields:
-
1 pie
- Serves:
- 4-6
ingredients
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 1⁄2 kg extra lean ground beef
- 1 large onion, diced
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 1 teaspoon caremalised balsamic vinegar
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
- 2 teaspoons dried thyme
- 1 teaspoon celery salt
- 1 teaspoon all purpose seasoning
- 1 cup red wine
- 2 zucchini, grated
- 2 carrots, grated
- 2 beef bouillon cubes
- 1⁄2 pint boiling water
- 2 tablespoons tomato puree
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 sweet potato, peeled and cubed
- 2 potatoes, peeled and cubed
- 1⁄2 small butternut pumpkin, peeled and cubed
- 2 teaspoons butter
- salt
- pepper
directions
- Heat the olive oil over a medium heat in a large pan.
- Add the minced beef and brown.
- Add the onions and continue to cook until translucent (approx 4 mins).
- Add the caremalised balsamic vinegar, worcestershire sauce, garlic, celery salt, all purpose seasoning, thyme and parsley and cook for a further 2-3 minutes.
- Add the red wine and continute to cook until the liquid is absorbed.
- Add the grated zucchini and carrot and cook for a further 2 or 3 minutes.
- Crumble in the stock cubes, add the boiling water then stir it in together.
- Add the tomato puree, bay leaf and salt and pepper to taste.
- Continue to simmer on a low heat, you may need to add a little more water.
- Meanwhile, place the pumkin, potatoes and sweet potato into a separate pan and cover with cold water.
- Bring to the boil and simmer until tender.
- Drain the potato/sweet potato/pumpkin and mash - as the pumpkin tends to retain water the best way to mash it is using a ricer so you can squeeze the water out at the start of each press.
- Add the butter to the potato mix and season to taste.
- Remove the bay leaves from the minced beef mix and spoon the mixture into a shallow 2 quart dish.
- Add the potato mix over the top of the beef mixture, spread evenly then rough up the top using the back of a fork.
- Place under a hot grill for 4 minutes.
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