Minced beef recipes

I've made this for years and always thought it was cottage pie!

So exactly what is the difference between Cumberland Pie and Cottage Pie. And is there a difference between Cottage Pie and shepherds pie?

I'm sure Cumberland Pie has pickle included in the recipe making it different from Shepherds Pie (with minced lamb) and Cottage Pie (with minced beef). the way to remember the difference between these last two is shepherds look after sheep - hence lamb/shepherds pie.

Just glancing through the ingredients, I wondered "where are the carrots?". Then saw them written into Method. Suppose 2-3 carrots, but are they better grated or sliced?

SLICED DEFINITELY

This was excellent!!! Enjoyed it so much we could have ate it all over again!!!!

My nine year old daughter pauline-May and I made this one saturday afternoon and we all had some of it for our evening meal with steamed vegetable and it went down very well. Will be doing it again thats for sure. Doesn`t cost the earth and with ingredients we had in either the fridge the freezer or the cardboard. Brilliant recipe thank you Pauline-May and mum Nikola xx

Made this last night with my 7 yr old daughter! Didnt need much to fill the belly! Very tasty indeed! Nice to have a recipe where you have all the ingredients in the house and not all these fancy things youve never heard of! Definately become a regular meal in my household!

We have made it before lots of times but were making it again we love it :D:D very very tasty :D

I don't see egg in ingredients! Very confusing for a complete cookery novice like me. Recipe sounds good though, I'll try it tomorrow.

Whoops! Fixed

I like challenges this reciept will do just fine for me,am now going to the kitchen to get things started, so will let you know the results tomorrow

Tried it. Found it pretty bland

Ghatiya dish hai
kuta bhi nahin khay ga
sale kyun likhi
apni maa ko ja ke khilayu
haramiiiii

Serve with red cabbage and raisins

Would have thought that an addition of Swede and Pearl Barley might boost the recipe somewhat.

I loved rissoles as a kid and I always thought that pearl barley was included. Indeed, that is how I knew the difference between a rissole and a fishcake!

I love rissoles they are the best tasting food eva i like to mix things up by adding diffrent things into it to make it taste diffrent with a little diffrent flavour.
My family likes them and they enjoy what i cook for them and they like the diffrent flavours that i make with the rissoles and they enjoy it so i cook them every second day of the week.

Surely... its not lamb

I always thought that it was Shepherd's Pie was made with lamb and Cottage Pie was made with beef!! I guess somewhere along the line there was some confusion :)

Shepherd's pie is made with lamb (hence 'shepherds') cottage pie is made with beef :)

Does it matter?? Hamburgers are made from beef!! How about getting a life yeah?

Add a grated carrot and a clove or two of crushed/grated garlic to get extra flavour going (during step 1). This dish is a great way to get kids eating veg without knowing it!

This is a nice recipe for a healthy and enjoyable meal.

Amazingly easy, healthy, and a tasty all-in-one dish.

I added a 2 bay leaves to meat when putting into oven... tasted gooood

The recipe under "Greek Recipes" is much better than this one.

Great recipe, simple ingredients really easy to make. Thanks

This recipe clearly states 2 eggs

Nice quick recipe good with some oregano. Thank You

If anyone's not keen on kidney beans, i substituted them for a tin of baked beans at the end of cooking time and it worked well

I added cumin powder to this as well which made it even better! Very easy to make, wonderful in flavour, fool proof... well recommended

What's not to like about kidney beans - they taste of nothing!!? I added worcester sauce to give it a bit of depth. Yummy!

I'ts a good idea to rub some oil into your hands before handling fresh chllis - it stops the juice from penetrating into your skin

I add ground corriander, cumin & basil too

You don't use minced beef.. you think the mexicans had mincing machines
just beef chunks.. there's no chillis in this recipe.. what?
you brown the meat seperately from the sauce
in the sauce you need to toast the outside of the skins before adding them
you much up half the kidney beans this helps release starch and thicken the sauce

chocolate.. you need at least 70% cocoa solid.. but don't use too much

NO PARSLEY OR CINNAMON (seen that in other recipes).. what spacker came up with that idea

there's something else but i'd have to kill you if i told you.. make your way to rigby's place for the real deal.. london soho

Some angry comments there! not everyone is as knowledgeable as you, or perhaps pretentious? or else they wouldnt be looking up the recipie.

Its a basic recipe, if you know how to cook, you also know you can adjust this recipe according to your personal taste. No need to be offended by it.

Why would a person that knows how to cook a recipe then go and look it up...? :-S
Just to be-little a person that writes a simple yet classic version of a nice recipe or maybe just to try and brag onto a load of unnecessary additional ways to cook it?

It could have been simply suggested to add other ingredients or ideas but instead was put forward in a rubbish manner.
Sorry but, whats retarded...? More like who.

Its a nice, basic / classic and finer way of cooking Chilli Con Carne. Obviously all sorts can be added to any recipe. Each persons shall no doubt be different (-:

Lasagne sheets missed off the list of ingredients!

Add some peppers and a little chilli puree to add a little bit of spice to the recipe.

I guess it's kinda obvious if you want to make a lasagne that you buy lasagne sheets!

They didnt have lasange sheets but if your making lasange you obvisly need lasange sheets !! lol

"2 x 500 g tubs four cheese sauce" the for should be spelt like "for" not "four"
and good recipe anyway

The "four" is correct coz the sauce has 4 different types of cheese in it. Sorry to correct your correction, but, in this case , there is NO spelling mistake !!!

Its a shame, a lovely recipe but i do not think i will be using any pre bought cheese sauce mix! its so easy to make cheese sauce yourself! flour butter milk and cheese et voila!

Thanks for a great recipe - and whats is wrong with pre-made cheese sauce!!

Edible but underwhelming. I wish I knew why...

I made too much potatoe and mince, so decided to eat them seperatly whilst waiting for the pie to cook. They taste better seperatly than together.

Does any one know of a low fat version of cumberland pie other than replacing full fAT CHEESE FOR LOW FAT

Greatly improved by using grated Cheddar instead of cream cheese in the potatoes - and I also stirred in a tbsp of chilli sauce!

This recipe was amazing!

I agree, Superb recipe, fabulous taste, will be making this Bolognese again and again.

A great recipe. I've found that a dash of Worcester Sauce and a beef stock cube (try not to get a salty one) are useful additions, and try grating the carrot. If the sauce is too runny for your liking, one to two tea spoons of plain flour just thickens it very slightly.

Great recipe could of added a few spices to give it a twist

Nice meatballs. My only complaint is the lack of spice.

Second time through I added some cayenne pepper and paprika to mine and some red wine to the sauce.

Was good, but seeing as the title is "spicey" it should specify what spice, I used berbere (moroccan hot spice), turned out well, had a little trouble making the balls stay round when cooking the frying pan, but my dad said its not the shape that counts, so I said we are having spicey meatsquares. Lol.

Made this dish last night, was good. I had no tomato puree, but this didn't seem to matter as the end result was superb. I added Chilli Flakes to give it some spice and made the balls probably twice the size suggested. As a result of making the balls bigger I cooked for longer in the oven, probably 1hr 15mins. I served with homemade chunky chips.

This could be more detailed.
how do i know when the potatoes are
done.

It says "until tender" so you could look it up in a dictionary.

Hi, shepherds pie is made with minced lamb, and cottage pie is made with minced beef,

This recipe is excellent and actually better with lamb mince rather than beef. It's actually a recipe by well known english chef and appeared in the masterchef cookbook about 10 years ago.

I tried this recipe for dinner last night. It was a fabulous change of the usual household mince dishes such as bolognese and the famous mince & tatties. I & my guests thoroughly enjoyed it, another recipe added to my favourites!

I found this better replace the tomato soup for tinned tomms and add peas simmer with a can of water till dry lovely

Really nice and quick and easy to cook.

Not the traditional cottage pie but very tasty nevertheless

This was lovely but I added the cheese for the last 10 - 15 mins so it would not burn and it was perfect

Excellent!!!

I added 2 table spoons of tomato puree to give it a little more flavour, for my first time it came out great.

Just remember to roll out on some flour, and i found it better to roll it out then put the dough onto my cooking tray before adding the sauce. Then cooked it for 25 min.

Great recipe.

Shepherd's pie is made with lamb, not beef.

Indeed, shepherd's pie is made with minced lamb.

It would be nice to be able to print the recipes without have all the other printing around it.

Made this for dinner tonight, it's really lovely...

Really liked these, all ingredients very easily attaned and very easy and quick recipe... wll definitely make these again..