Recipe: Delicious Mini Cottage Pies With Potato Nests

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You can easy and quick cook Mini Cottage Pies With Potato Nests using 15 ingredients and 11 steps. Next how you to cook it.

Ingredients that must be prepared for Mini Cottage Pies With Potato Nests :

1. You need 5 of jacket potatoes.
2. You need 500 g of lean beef mince.
3. It's 2 of onions.
4. make ready 2 tbsp of gram (chickpea) flour.
5. make ready 1 of finely diced carrot.
6. You need 1 of finely diced celery stick.
7. make ready 2 tbsp of tomato puree.
8. make ready 2 of bay leaves.
9. You need 2 cloves of garlic, crushed.
10. make ready 1 tsp of mixed herbs.
11. You need 1/2 tsp of salt.
12. It's 1 tin of tomatoes.
13. Set 1 tbsp of olive oil.
14. Prepare 250 mls of hot water.
15. You need 30 g of grated cheddar cheese.

Mini Cottage Pies With Potato Nests step by step

1. Peel and quarter the jacket potatoes and boil until tender. Drain and allow to cool..
2. In a large saucepan, fry the onions, celery, carrot and garlic gently in the olive oil for 10 minutes..
3. Tip the vegetables out into a bowl, set this to one side and then brown the mince in the saucepan for about 5 minutes. Pour off any water that comes out of the mince..
4. Add the vegetables back into the saucepan with the mince. Sprinkle the veg and mince with the gram flour and stir well..
5. Add the tomato puree, mixed herbs, hot water, salt, tomatoes and bay leaves into the saucepan and leave to simmer, with the lid off, for 40 minutes..
6. Coarsely grate all of the boiled potatoes..
7. Lightly oil 12 cupcake tins with olive oil. Spoon the grated potatoes into the wells. Use the spoon to make little nests, ensuring the bases aren’t too thin..
8. Bake the nests in the oven at 200°C for 20-25 minutes until starting to turn golden brown..
9. Spoon the cottage pie filling into each nest and top with grated cheese..
10. Bake in the oven at 200°C for a further 20-25 minutes until the cheese is bubbling and starting to brown..
11. Serve with salad or steamed vegetables..