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slow cooker cottage pie
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Slow Cooker Cottage Pie

How to cook the most delicious and simple slow cooker cottage pie. Perfect for a fuss free Sunday dinner and you will love how you can use the slow cooker to make the mashed potatoes and to cook the minced beef filling.
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time4 hours
Total Time4 hours 10 minutes
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Slow Cooker
Servings: 4
Calories: 715kcal

Ingredients

Slow Cooker Mash

Cottage Pie Filling

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Instructions

  • Peel your sweet potatoes and dice them and load the potatoes into the slow cooker with half the butter or margarine, salt, pepper, and mixed herbs. Allow to slow cook for 90 minutes on high to create soft mashed potatoes. After 90 minutes put the potatoes to one side in a suitable bowl and add the milk and other half of the butter.
    Can You Cook Cottage Pie In The Slow Cooker?
  • Whilst the potatoes are cooking in the slow cooker, peel and dice the onion and the carrots as well as cleaning and slicing the celery.
    Can You Cook Cottage Pie In The Slow Cooker?
  • When the slow cooker is done, and you have emptied out the potatoes use the slow cooker on the stovetop to sauté the onion with extra virgin olive oil.
    Can You Cook Cottage Pie In The Slow Cooker?
  • Once the onion is sautéed add in the minced beef and brown all over but don’t cook.
    Can You Cook Cottage Pie In The Slow Cooker?
  • Then remove the slow cooker from the stovetop and add everything else into the slow cooker (apart from the potatoes and peas) and mix well. Slow cook for 90 minutes on high. When the slow cooker is back on mash your sweet potatoes with the butter and milk until they are nice and creamy.
    Can You Cook Cottage Pie In The Slow Cooker?
  • After 90 minutes stir in the peas, fork test your carrots to make sure they are cooked and if needed add some extra sweet potato mash to thicken up your filling.
    Can You Cook Cottage Pie In The Slow Cooker?
  • Load up with sweet mash potatoes and then slow cook on high for 1 hour before serving.
    Can You Cook Cottage Pie In The Slow Cooker?

Notes

Mince. I highly recommend using 5% fat minced beef. This is because the lower in fat the less greasy the mince will become as it cooks in the slow cooker.
Thicken. I always use a little mash potato as a natural thickener. It tastes so good, and you are already making mash to go with the pie so why not?
Thanks for reading our cottage pie in slow cooker on Recipe This. We have many more slow cooker recipes for you to check out next. Though if you would like more slow cooker dinner recipes, do check out our slow cooker sausages and onion gravy recipe next.

Nutrition

Calories: 715kcal | Carbohydrates: 62g | Protein: 49g | Fat: 31g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 13g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 151mg | Sodium: 605mg | Potassium: 2062mg | Fiber: 14g | Sugar: 21g | Vitamin A: 32970IU | Vitamin C: 61mg | Calcium: 232mg | Iron: 8mg
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