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Cheddar Topped Cottage Pie

Cheddar Topped Cottage Pie

By Kate Morgan Jackson

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Cheddar topped cottage pie will take your cottage pie to new heights of deliciousness by mixing some cheddar cheese into the mashed potato topping! 

cheddar topped cottage pie

 

Ah, cheddar topped cottage pie! When it comes to cottage pie and shepherd’s pie, I’m pretty much a girl who can’t say no.  It’s not like I don’t have multiple recipes for various variations of this recipe.  And during the course of collecting all of these recipes and blogging about them incessantly, I have learned the difference between shepherd’s pie (lamb) and cottage pie (beef).  I’ve made it with and without peas, with sliced potatoes and mashed potatoes.  You’d think I’d be over it by now.

But no.  Because I realized I had not yet tried it with cheddar cheese (Cabot cheddar of course) mixed into the mashed potatoes, and that was all the excuse I needed to put it back on the menu for the one millionth time.  It was a new recipe!  It included cheese!  I had no choice!

So here’s what we’ve got.  The base is a mixture of carrots, celery, onion, thyme, tomato paste and beef.  And since I have learned the correct terminology, I know that this means that what I am making is cottage pie.  The topping is made of mashed potatoes (and I always use this completely wonderful, always reliable mashed potato recipe from The Pioneer Woman site.  Yukon gold potatoes, cream cheese…you pretty much can’t go wrong.)  You spread this glorious mashed potato wonderfulness over the beef mixtures, sprinkle some cheese on top, and you get this:

cheddar topped cottage pie

Delicious, comforting, cheesy cottage pie.  I have no idea why it is called cottage pie, but since it is, and since it includes a good-sized amount of Vermont cheddar cheese, it seems like a good enough reason to show you the closest picture I have to a cottage, which is our beloved Vermont cabin.

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So, the next time you want a completely soothing and wonderful comfort food, or want to make something with “cottage” in the title, or (like me) just can’t resist recipes that include mashed potatoes…here’s your recipe.

 

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Cheddar Topped Cottage Pie


  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cook Time: 45 minutes
  • Total Time: 1 hour
  • Yield: 4-6 servings 1x
  • Category: Dinner
  • Method: Stovetop and Oven
  • Cuisine: Irish
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Ingredients

  • 4 cups mashed potatoes (either store-bought or homemade. I like The Pioneer Woman’s recipe)
  • Coarse salt and ground pepper
  • 1 tablespoon canola oil
  • 6 medium carrots, cut into halves and then quarters
  • 6 celery stalks, thinly sliced
  • 1 large onion, chopped
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
  • 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 cup tomato paste
  • 2 pounds ground beef chuck
  • 1 1/2 cups shredded cheddar (as always, I love Cabot!)

Instructions

  1. Heat oil in a heavy pot over medium-high heat.
  2. Add carrots, celery, onion, and thyme. Cook, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are tender, about 10 minutes.
  3. Add flour and tomato paste and stir for 1 minute.
  4. Add beef and cook until browned. Add 1 cup water, bring to a boil, and simmer for 1-2 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
  5. Preheat over to 450. Mix 1 cup of cheddar into mashed potatoes. Put the beef mixture into a large casserole and spread mashed potatoes over the top of it. Scatter 1/2 cup cheese over the top.
  6. Bake until golden and bubbling, about 25 minutes. Let it cool slightly and then serve!
6247.7 g791 mg33 g15.1 g1.3 g39.2 g5.1 g41.2 g141.3 mg

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Hi there!  I’m Kate, and I’m a recipe writer, food photographer and devoted bacon lover.  I started Framed Cooks in 2009, and my mission is to create and share family-friendly recipes that make cooking both easy and fun…yes, I said FUN!  My kitchen is my happy place, and I want yours to be that place too.  Let’s cook together!as seen in logos

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Published on June 2, 2011

Meals: beef, dinnerIngredients: casserole, cheddar, cheese, mashed potatoes

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  1. Joanne says

    June 3, 2011 at 1:22 am

    Ummm my excuse to make this? All of the above. All that cheese. Those potatoes. Heavenly.

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  2. PoetessWug says

    June 3, 2011 at 8:54 am

    Ahhhhh! Now you're barking up my tree…or going down my alley, so to speak!! :-] This recipe is along the same lines as my beloved homemade 'shepherd's pie'. {I know it's not the correct vernacular, since I use beef…but I don't care! LOL I think of shepherds under a cold sky and…it works!! :-))} I put cheddar over the meat mixture (where I also have mushrooms) and then I also melt cheeses into the potatoes before I bake. (tough to clean up…and tough to stop eating!!!)…I can't wait to try this recipe too! Hey, you can never have too many cottage pie recipes! {Okay, so I threw you a bone with the 'cottage pie' reference this time! LOL}

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  3. Rock Kitaro says

    June 3, 2011 at 9:35 pm

    Very lovely!!!

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  4. [email protected] says

    June 4, 2011 at 4:32 am

    Oh my goodness! I love every ingredient in the recipe list. This sounds delicious. I will definitely being making this. Thanks for a great post!!

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  5. Barbara says

    June 4, 2011 at 11:25 am

    Not possible to ever "get over" cottage pies! And this one is really special. All those taters and melted cheese. Yum.

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  6. plasterers bristol says

    May 16, 2016 at 2:09 pm

    This sounds so good. Thanks for sharing this recipe. Can’t wait to give this a go.

    Simon

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