Untraditional Cottage Pie

Cottage pie is normally made from mince beef, carrots, onions, beef stock, potatoes, thyme, worcestershire sauce and tomato puree. I've used this as a basis for this recipe but just added some extra ingredients here and there and came up with this delicious Three2Tea version:

Ingredients:

• 500-750g Minced Beef
• 4 Medium Sized carrots
• 4 Small Onions
• 2 fresh beetroots
• One Tomato
• 2 Medium sized mushrooms
• 2 Cloves Garlic
• Potatoes - roughly 300g
• Handful of fresh basil leaves
• Roquefort cheese
• 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 2 tbsp Tomato sauce
• 400ml Chicken stock
• A pinch of cayenne pepper
• Salt and pepper to taste
• Butter and milk for mash

Directions:

1. Dice up your vegetables, fry the beetroot, onions, carrots and garlic in some oil until onions have softened.
2. Add in the mince beef and fry until mince is nearly fully browned.
3. Add the chicken stock in, along with the cayenne pepper, tomato sauce, worcestershire sauce, tomato and mushrooms.
4. Simmer on low heat for 40 minutes.
5. Boil the potatoes in a separate pot until done. Mash with milk and butter (add enough of each to get the consistency you like)
6. Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius.
7. After 40 minutes, season minced beef and vegetables to taste, pour this into a oven proof dish and spoon the mash on top of it.
8. Sprinkle basil and cheese on top of the mash.
9. Bake in oven for 20 minutes or until lightly brown on top.

Simple right? This will feed 4 small stomachs or two very hungry stomachs!
That's it!

Satsuma-imo.