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Ultimate cottage pie
The comfort food favourite just got a Slimming World makeover. Minced beef, carrots and onions, simmered in a rich gravy flavoured with thyme and a splash of Henderson’s Relish, snuggle under a cosy blanket of potato and sweet potato mash. Served simply with green beans, itʼs ‘home sweet homeʼ in food form!
SWK: Source of fibre
SWK: High protein
Plants 5
highly rated
Serving size
Ingredients
- 160g green beans
- 1 large potatoes
- 60g fat-free Greek-style yogurt (Milk) (Skimmed Milk Concentrate, Skimmed Milk, Bacterial Starter Culture)
- 250g beef mince (5% fat or less)
- 2 tbsp tomato purée
- 200g passata (tomatoes, salt, citric acid)
- 1 x 15ml Henderson's Relish (Water, Spirit Vinegar, Sugar, Colour – Caramel E150a, Sugar Syrup, Salt, Tamarinds, Acetic Acid, Cayenne Pepper, Cloves, Garlic Oil, Tragacanth Gum E413)
- 1 beef stock cube (use half) (Celery) (sea salt, potato starch* , palm oil* , vegetables* 4.8% (onions* 4%, carrots* 0.5%, mushrooms* 0.3%), sugar*, natural flavour caramelised* , yeast extract, beef powder* 1.5%, beef* 1.2%, spices and herbs* (parsley* , black pepper* , rosemary*, garlic*, turmeric*, bay leaves*) * Organic ingredients)
- 1 sweet potato
- 1 onion
- 2 carrot
- 1 handful of fresh thyme
Nutritional Information
Calories: 578
Protein: 37g
Carbs: 89g
Fat: 7.9g
Ingredients
- 400g potatoes
- 2 sweet potato
- 2 onion
- 4 carrot
- 2 handful of fresh thyme
- 500g beef mince (5% fat or less)
- 2 tbsp tomato purée
- 400g passata (tomatoes, salt, citric acid)
- 2 x 15ml Henderson's Relish (Water, Spirit Vinegar, Sugar, Colour – Caramel E150a, Sugar Syrup, Salt, Tamarinds, Acetic Acid, Cayenne Pepper, Cloves, Garlic Oil, Tragacanth Gum E413)
- 1 beef stock cube (Celery) (sea salt, potato starch* , palm oil* , vegetables* 4.8% (onions* 4%, carrots* 0.5%, mushrooms* 0.3%), sugar*, natural flavour caramelised* , yeast extract, beef powder* 1.5%, beef* 1.2%, spices and herbs* (parsley* , black pepper* , rosemary*, garlic*, turmeric*, bay leaves*) * Organic ingredients)
- 120g fat-free Greek-style yogurt (Milk) (Skimmed Milk Concentrate, Skimmed Milk, Bacterial Starter Culture)
- 240g green beans
Nutritional Information
Calories: 564
Protein: 36g
Carbs: 88g
Fat: 7.7g
Ultimate cottage pie
The comfort food favourite just got a Slimming World makeover. Minced beef, carrots and onions, simmered in a rich gravy flavoured with thyme and a splash of Henderson’s Relish, snuggle under a cosy blanket of potato and sweet potato mash. Served simply with green beans, itʼs ‘home sweet homeʼ in food form!
Cook time:
30 mins
Cuisine:
British
Food group:
Beef
Allergens: Milk
Cooking Instructions
Sort your mash
- Peel the potatoes and sweet potatoes and cut into 2cm cubes, then cook in boiling water for 15-18 mins.
- Drain, return to the pan and mash together, then lightly season.
Dice & slice
- Meanwhile, peel and finely dice the onions. Dice the carrots into 1cm cubes.
- Finely chop the thyme leaves.
Cook the filling
- Spritz a large non-stick frying pan with cooking spray and put it over a medium-high heat. Fry the onions and carrots for 7-8 mins, adding a splash of water if they start to catch.
- Add the mince and thyme and cook for 2 mins, breaking up the mince with a wooden spoon, then tip in the tomato purée, passata and Hendersonʼs Relish.
- Crumble in half the stock cube (the whole stock cube for 4 portions), pour in 200ml water (300ml for 4 portions) and stir well, then simmer for 10 mins.
Time for a grilling!
- Heat your grill to high. Mix the yogurt into the mash, then spoon the mince mixture into an ovenproof dish and top with the mash.
- Grill for 5 mins, until the topping begins to turn golden brown.
Simmer the beans & serve
- At the same time, trim the green beans, then cook in boiling water for 3-4 mins and drain.
- Serve the cottage pie with the beans.