Venison cottage pie with celeriac mash
October is deep in the game season, and venison mince is the easy way in: lean,…
Freezable
🍽 Serves 8 Hands-on time: Oven/cook time: Difficulty:⏱ 45 min hands-on · 1 hour 30 min oven◆ Easy
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Cottage pie recipes
Learn how to make a classic cottage pie with our easy recipes. Whether you’re looking for a beef, vegetarian or lower-fat version, find comfort in our satisfying cottage pie recipes.
Simple and speedy: Make our quick cottage pie for two in just 15 minutes. Feed the family with our easy cottage pie, or get ahead by batch cooking and freezing the ragu for this simple cottage pie.
Give it a twist: Spice up supper with keema pie loaded with chilli and ginger. This bengali-spiced cottage pie is topped with moreish parsnip mash, or try layered cottage pie with cheesy sliced potatoes.
Healthy ideas: Load jacket potatoes with veggie cottage pie filling. Our lighter cottage pie cuts the calories but not the flavour, with a delicious butter bean topping.
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Cheesy cider rarebit new potatoes
Rarebit meets new potatoes in this easy, cheesy side dish recipe. Here’s why our cider rarebit…
Vegetarian
🍽 Serves 4-6 as a side⏱ 10 min hands-on · 40 min oven◆ Easy
Veggie cottage pie stuffed jackets
These comforting cottage pie jackets are stuffed with a rich veggie ragù, topped with mash and…
Vegetarian
🍽 Makes enough for 6 large, or 8 smaller jackets⏱ 45 min hands-on◆ Easy
Lighter cottage pie
Our lighter cottage pie is less calorific, fibre-packed and simple to make. We can assure you…
Freezable
🍽 Serves 4⏱ 30 min hands-on◆ Easy
Easy cottage pie
There’s a reason classic cottage pie is a family favourite – rich meaty sauce made with…
🍽 Serves 4⏱ 20 min hands-on · 1 hour oven◆ Easy
Comforting cottage pie
A traditional British cottage pie recipe with a baked bean twist – perfect for chilly evenings.
🍽 Serves 2◆ Easy
Bengali-spiced cottage pie with parsnip mash topping
Make this Indian-inspired beef dish to impress your friends, or as something different for the whole…
🍽 Serves 4-6◆ Easy
Easy-peasy cottage pie
Make up a batch of our beef ragu, freeze it, and then defrost so you can…
🍽 Serves 4◆ Easy
Layered cottage pie
This traditional cottage pie recipe with a twist costs less than £6 to make for four…
Gluten-free
🍽 Serves 4◆ Easy
Quick cottage pie
The secret ingredient in this quick cottage pie is a tin of baked beans. This comfort…
Dairy-free
🍽 Serves 2 people◆ Easy
Keema pie
This recipe is a spicy version of cottage pie, serve it up as a mid-week treat.
🍽 Serves 4◆ Easy
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