Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Award-winning Gwent Cottage Pie

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Gwent Cottage Pie is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Gwent Cottage Pie is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have gwent cottage pie using 15 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Gwent Cottage Pie:

1. Prepare meat sauce
2. Make ready 80 grams butter
3. Get 1 large onion sliced
4. Prepare 350 grams minced beef
5. Make ready 2 tbsp plain flour
6. Prepare 400 ml hot beef stock - home-made, from a cube, from a jar, however you want your beef stock
7. Take leeks in cheese sauce
8. Make ready 3 medium leeks
9. Make ready 80 grams butter
10. Take 1 tbsp heaped, of plain flour
11. Prepare 100 ml milk
12. Take 1 tsp mustard powder
13. Make ready 150 grams grated cheese
14. Take Seasoning
15. Make ready 1 kg mashed potato - I use a floury potato with lots of butter and a dash of milk

Instructions to make Gwent Cottage Pie:

1. Add the minced beef to a preheated saucepan and fry quickly releasing the fat (if you use lean beef you'll have to use oil) add thinly sliced onion and lower the heat allowing onions to saute - you can use more meat if you want, but I buy 450g and steal 100g of it to make my Cornish pasties ;)
2. When onions have become clear add the butter and melt
3. Sprinkle the flour over the top of the neat and onion mixture and stir in to absorb the butter. Cook for 1 minute whilst stirring.
4. Add the beef stock a little at a time stirring well in between to avoid any lumps.
5. Put the meat layer into your chosen baking dish - I use a rectangular 12x8, 2 inch deep glass dish but you could choose round, smaller, deeper
6. Now make the leek layer (leaving meat to cool helps keep the layers separate during cooking)
7. Put butter into a saute pan with a lid. Add the sliced leeks and sweat with the lid on over a low heat
8. When the leeks are soft, sprinkle over the flour and stir in for 1 minute
9. Add the milk and stir in well now add the mustard powder and grated cheese
10. If you don't have mustard powder you can use yellow English mustard. Add any seasoning at this point that you feel necessary - we all have different palates
11. When leeks cooled dollop onto the meat sauce, then carefully, a forkfull at a time, cover it in mashed potato. I start from the centre so if I don't have enough mashed potato i just leave a border around the outside - it's ok, it doesn't have to be perfect
12. So mashed potato - i may make fresh for this meal, but often I use leftover, so up to you but I would say that you need it to be fairly stiff.
13. You can keep in the fridge up to 48 hours before baking, the longer the better as it firms up the layers
14. Bake at 180ºC gas 4 for 35 - 40 minutes until the meat starts bubbling through and it starts to form a sticky crust

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