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Irish Cottage Pie

3/28/2018

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Alicia back again with another Irish recipe for you. This will be my last recipe for Ireland. Next month we're moving on to French food! This has been a very fun experiment so far. I hope you get the chance to try something like this out sometime.

Today I'll be sharing a recipe for Cottage Pie.

Cottage Pie

You may be thinking that this Cottage Pie looks a lot like Shepherd's Pie. That's because they are essentially very similar. But one thing is very different between them. Shepherd's Pie has to use ground lamb or sheep meat! Never Beef! This makes sense if you think about how Shepherd's watched over sheep and not cows.

I didn't have ground lamb, however, so I decided to make Cottage Pie withe the ground beef I had i the freezer. And it was so tasty, we "accidentally" ate half the dish in one sitting, going back for thirds. Even my 6 month old daughter was digging it. She is so fascinated by food. Every time we would bring the fork to our mouths she would open her mouth. It was really cute. I ended up giving her some of the mashed potato topping, and she loved it!
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Kind of hard to see but here's the delicious layers of the Cottage Pie.
Cottage Pie is layered. A delicious beef layer with veggies and gravy, and a topping of champ and cheese. 

Champ is mashed potatoes with diced green onions, lots of butter, and milk. They are mashed until they are really creamy smooth. You definitely don't want any lumps for this dish. So get those potatoes as smooth as you can. 

Because you want it layered, dollop small amounts of the champ on top of the beef mixture, and then gently smooth them together with a fork or spatula. You don't want any holes in the top.

The cheese I used was Kerrygold Dubliner cheese. It's an Irish cheese, and it tastes a bit like Gruyere only a bit sweeter. It's very tasty! 
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Beautiful golden brown cheese crust on top.
Irish Cottage Pie
This is such an easy meal to make and pretty inexpensive. I hope you give it a go. Let us know how you like it!
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Miz Helen's Country Cottage
4/2/2018 02:53:37 pm

Hope you had a wonderful weekend and thanks so much for sharing your special post with us at Full Plate Thursday! Have a great week and come back soon!
Miz Helen

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Dee | Grammy's Grid link
3/10/2023 02:56:28 am

YUM! Thanks so much for linking up at #FoodFriday 21 for Irish Recipes. Shared.

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