Pork and Cider Cottage Pie

This is my first entry into the Pi Day contest, and my very first Instructable!

A simple recipe, just perfect for autumn. The complimentary flavours of pork and apples makes for a delicious blend of savoury and sweet. It can be made as one large pie in a single dish, or in four ramekins as I have done.

Serves four.

Step 1 Ingredients

500 gm minced pork
1 white onion
1/2 cup of chopped mushrooms
1 Granny Smith apple (or similar cooking apple)
3 medium Lady Christl potatoes (or similar mashing potatoes)
200 ml apple cider (home made if you have it)
200 ml stock (vegetable or chicken)
1 tablespoon of chopped corriander
1 tablespoon of chopped chives
1 pinch of nutmeg
1 pinch of cinnamon
ground pepper and salt to taste
1 teaspoon of olive oil
2 tablespoons of plain flour
2 sheets of shortcrust pastry
2-3 tablespoons of milk
1 teaspoon of butter

Comments

[kathrynl]

Mmm, this looks delicious!

[bwhelan1]

Cool.

[Kozz]

If you're using lamb, I think that'd be a shepherd's pie. A cottage pie is usually beef. It's interesting, because usually I see restaurants advertising shepherd's pie, but it contains beef rather than lamb.

All this being said, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." This looks really, really good. I just ate a short time ago, but I'd give this a go. Looks simple and tasty!

[ED-209]

Thanks guys! :-)

Cottage pie and Shepherd's pie are really just different names for the same recipe, but I too have trouble reconciling the idea of a shepherd's pie made from something other than lamb or mutton. Perhaps this is a swineherd's pie? ;-)