Yes Pie - Pie, it’s not a typo. This is Cottage Pie filling in a mashed Potato based pastry casing. Try it, you’ll be pleasantly surprised!
Pastry Ingredients:-
375g warm mashed Potato
50g Margarine (Or Butter if you prefer)
190g Plain Flour (Gluten free in our case)
2 tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Xanthan Gum
1 tsps Salt and few grinds of Pepper
2 beaten Eggs, half to glaze
1 tsp Mustard Powder
Method:-
(1) Press into a pie casing and blind bake for 12 minutes at 180c.
(2) Add the Cottage Pie filling.
(3) Form the lid and glaze with the remaining beaten Egg.
(4) Return to the oven for a further 15 minutes.
No pie is considered complete without double fried chips and peas here! The remaining Cottage Pie filling is in the fridge and will have mash added for tonight's dinner.
A few days ago I commented that we don't like things going to waste. I think I doomed us.
We have been gifted two fridges, which is great as we don't have a freezer we've been able to use the freezer boxes to store left-overs when we cook too much and the odd “Special Offer” I come across in the supermarkets. But then..... One of the fridges went a little mad the other evening and froze everything. So if it want's to be a freezer that's cool ( Well colder then cool actually! ) but frozen Carrots, Celeriac, salad etc. is not a great gig when it thaws out. So we had to swap the fridges around, accept that one is now pretending to be a freezer and use up everything we could salvage this evening.