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Cottage pie

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This delicious cottage pie is sure to become a family favourite. It’s easy to make and is packed with a sweet tomato sauce and tender beef mince which make a great combo with a creamy mash topper

Serves: 4
Prep time: 20 mins
Cooking time: 30 mins
Total time: 50 mins
Skill level: Easy peasy
Costs: Cheap as chips

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For a crispy topping sprinkle your cottage pie with Cheddar cheese once cooked and pop under the grill until the cheese has melted

Ingredients

1tbsp sunflower oil
1 med onion, peeled and chopped
2 carrots, peeled and diced
500g minced beef
250g chestnut mushrooms, sliced
2 level tbsp plain flour
400g can chopped tomatoes
1 beef stock cube
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Dash of Worcestershire sauce
450g mashed potato
Knob of butter

Method

Heat the oil in a sauté pan or large frying pan, add the onion and carrots and cook over a med heat for about 5 mins, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables have started to soften. Add the beef to the pan and cook for about 5-10 mins, stirring to break up the meat, until it browns. Once the meat is crumbly, stir occasionally to prevent it sticking and burning, but don’t keep stirring it, otherwise it just cools the mixture, rather than letting the meat brown. Add the mushrooms to the pan and cook for a few mins.
Sprinkle over the flour, then mix it in well and heat for 3-4 mins to cook the flour. The flour will absorb the fat that comes out of the meat, which will then thicken the sauce.
Pour in the can of tomatoes, sprinkle in the stock cube and bring the mixture to the boil, stirring continually, then reduce the heat and simmer for about 10 mins, until it thickens slightly and the vegetables are tender. If the sauce seems very thick, just add a little boiling water.
Set oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas Mark 6.
Stir the Worcestershire sauce into mince, then spoon into a dish and level the surface.
Beat the potato to soften it and spread over the mince. Score the surface with a fork and put butter on top.
Bake in the centre of the oven for about 20-30 mins, or until the pie is golden and the filling is bubbling. Serve straight from the oven.

By Woman’s Weekly

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Nutritional information per portion

Calories 516(kcal)
Fat 30.0g
Saturates 13.0g

This nutritional information is only a guide and is based on 2,000 calories per day. For more information on eating a healthy diet, please visit the Food Standards Agency website.

Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.

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Choux pastry

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Choux pastry is light, fluffy, delicious and used in lots of sweet pastry treats like chocolate eclairs and profiteroles. Here’s our easy-to-follow choux pastry recipe

Ingredients

100g (3 1/2oz) plain flour
Pinch of salt
75g (2 1/2 oz) butter, cut into cubes
3 medium eggs, whisked
200ml (7 floz) water

Method

Sift the flour and salt into a bowl. Melt the butter with the water, bring to the boil, then remove from the heat.
Tip in all the flour and beat with a wooden spoon until the mixture forms a thick paste.
Return pan to the heat and beat until a smooth, dry ball forms, which leaves the sides of the pan clean. Remove from heat and cool.
Gradually beat in the eggs, using a hand-held electric mixer. The paste is now ready to use.

By ASDA

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Nutritional information

Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.

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Chicken and leek pie

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A delicious chicken pie to feed the whole family. The chicken and leek filing is tasty and moist, topped with ready-made puff pastry.

Serves: 8
Prep time: 50 mins
Cooking time: 1 hr 30 mins
Total time: 2 hrs 20 mins
Skill level: Bit of effort
Costs: Mid-price

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This pie can be made in advance and frozen. To freeze before baking, wrap the pie in cling film. Defrost in the fridge overnight, brush with egg and cook as above adding about an extra 10 minutes.

Ingredients

1.5kg (3lb) free-range chicken
1 carrot, peeled, cut into chunks
2 celery sticks, cut into chunks
2 onions, peeled and chopped
2 bay leaf
1 tbs olive oil
2 leeks, trimmed and sliced thickly
150g (5oz) bacon lardons, smoked or unsmoked
60g (2oz) butter
60g (2oz) plain flour
3 tbs crème fraîche, optional
1 tbs coarse-grain mustard
A few thyme sprigs
Salt and ground black pepper
375g pack ready-made puff pastry
A little beaten egg
1.5-2 litre (2½-3½ pints) pie dish

Method

Put the chicken in a large pot with the carrots, celery and an onion. Add a bay leaf and pour in enough cold water to cover. Put a lid on the pan, bring to the boil, then simmer, uncovered, for about 45 mins until the chicken meat starts to fall off the bone.
Take the chicken out and set aside for about 20 mins. Put the pan back on the heat, bring the stock to the boil and simmer for an hour to reduce it. As soon as the chicken is cool enough to handle, take the meat off the bones and add the bones to the stockpot for extra flavour.
Heat the oil in another pan, and add the other onion and leeks. Fry for about 5 mins, stirring. Add the bacon and fry for 5 mins more. Put into pie dish with bite-sized chunks of chicken.
Add the butter and flour to the pan, and cook, stirring to make a paste. Remove bones before gradually adding 600ml (1 pint) of the hot chicken stock to make a smooth sauce. Let it boil for a couple of mins, then add the crème fraîche, if using, and the mustard, the other bay leaf, thyme leaves and seasoning. Pour over chicken and leeks in the dish and stir well. Leave to cool.
Roll out the pastry just a little larger than the top of the pie dish and cut out. Brush the edge of the dish with egg, fit some trimmings round it, then put the cut-out pastry on top. Press down well to seal, trim off excess pastry and roughen up edges. Roll out trimmings to make decorative “leaves”. Make a small hole in the top and arrange the “leaves” on the pastry top. Chill the pie while the oven heats up.
Set the oven to Gas Mark 6 or 200°C. Heat a baking sheet in it. Brush pastry with egg. Put the dish on the baking sheet. Bake for 30-40 mins until the pastry is golden and the filling bubbling up.

By Kate Moseley

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Nutritional information per portion

Calories 502(kcal)
Fat 25.0g
Saturates 12.0g

This nutritional information is only a guide and is based on 2,000 calories per day. For more information on eating a healthy diet, please visit the Food Standards Agency website.

Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.

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