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Home » Free From Recipes » Gluten Free Recipes » Gluten Free Cottage pie with rosti tops

7th November 2013 ·

Gluten Free Cottage pie with rosti tops

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OK, so I am on a roll at the moment and finally getting around to posting more recipes for you.  I have so many stacked up now that I really need to stop writing and just share some!

I am still considering writing a book.  If any of you lovely readers have experience of publishing, or a comment to make about whether you would consider buying a book written by me then I would be most grateful of a message!  Sharing all my recipes on here for free is great, but without an income it will have to stop at some point!!!

So, here is the recipe.  I adapted it from one of Lorraine Pascal’s, in her book ‘Fast, Fresh and Easy Food’, which is a fantastic book filled with loads of inspiration!  Why not buy it for your favourite cook this Christmas!  It is only £5!!

My daughter hates mashed potato so making rosti’s to go on top of this cottage pie gets her to eat some carbohydrate with the meal!

Cottage pies with rosti tops

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Servings 4 -6 adults
Author Vicki Montague - the Free From Fairy

Ingredients
  

  • For the filling:
  • 2 sprigs fresh rosemary - chopped; or a tsp of dried
  • 4 sage leaves - finely chopped
  • 400 - 500 g organic lamb mince
  • 3 carrots - peeled and diced
  • 2 spring onions - finely chopped
  • 1 clove garlic - finely chopped and crushed
  • 400 ml tomato passata or a tin of chopped tomatoes
  • 2 tbsp plain gluten-free flour
  • 100 g tomato puree
  • A splash worcestershire sauce - check gluten-free, omit if you want fish-free
  • 100 g frozen peas
  • 200 ml red wine - low-salt stock - I use Marigold, or water
  • For the topping:
  • 2 medium potatoes
  • 2 medium sweet potatoes - count towards your 5 a day
  • A glug of oil - ideally, extra-virgin olive oil

Instructions
 

  • Place a drizzle of oil in a pan and add the rosemary, sage and mince. Cook over a low to medium heat until the mince is brown all over
  • Add the carrots and cook for a further 4-5 minutes, stirring regularly
  • Add the flour to the mix along with the garlic and spring onions and stir well before adding the passata
  • Add the tomato puree, worcestershire sauce and wine, stock or water and peas and stir well before leaving to cook on a low heat for about 20 minutes, with the lid off, until thickened and the vegetables are soft
  • While the sauce is cooking, prepare the rosti's. Cut the normal potatoes in half and leave the sweet potatoes whole. Place them in a pan of boiling water and cook for 10 minutes
  • Once the potatoes are cooked, cool them in cold water before grating them into a large bowl. Season with pepper (and salt if not for children) and mix well with your hands
  • Form the potato into balls and then flatten them into a rosti shape, don't worry too much about the shape!
  • Place the rosti's into a pre-heated hot frying pan with a good glug of oil. Cook on each side over a medium heat for approx. 5-10 minutes until golden and crisp. When you turn the rosti over you may need more oil
  • Drain the rosti's on a piece of kitchen roll before serving on top of the sauce, with vegetables of your choice
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pound signTotal cost = approx. £7.85 (breakdown at bottom of post, based on Tesco prices on 29.01.14), using organic meat

Cost breakdown – all prices correct on 29.1.14.  Where small quanities have been used an estimation of cost has been made.

Tesco fresh rosemary = 80p, couple of sprigs = approx. 15p

Tesco fresh sage = 80p, couple of leaves = max. 15p

Tesco organic lamb mince (400g) = £5

Tesco value carrots (1.5kg) = 89p, 3 carrots = approx. 15p

Tesco spring onions = 89p, 2 onions = approx. 20p

Tesco garlic bulb = 30p, 1 clove = approx. 3p

Tesco value tinned tomatoes = 34p per tin

Doves Farm plain gluten-free flour = £1.70, 2tbsp = approx. 3p

Tesco tomato puree = 48p (200g), 100g = 24p

Tesco frozen peas = £1 (1kg), 100g = 10p

Marigold reduced salt stock = £2 (150g), 5g = 6p

Tesco white potatoes = £2 (2.5kg), 2 potatoes = approx. 40p

Tesco sweet potatoes = (no price today!), about £2 (1kg), 2 potatoes = approx. £1

Tesco extra virgin olive oil (1lt) = £3.75, couple of glugs = approx. 10p

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  1. freefromfairy says

    7th November 2013 at 8:22 pm

    What a lovely comment! Thank you so much for making it. I am sure people do want your opinion, and having a stranger tell me to do a book rather than friends, means a lot! Just need to win the lottery now to pay for it!!! 😉

  2. peter ball says

    7th November 2013 at 8:06 pm

    Hello ‘Fairy’, I have just read your blog without an apology for dodgy pictures – well done, and your recipes are fantastic, now about your ‘book’, if you want my opinion ( nobody normally do’es) I would get your book done because you are absolutely down to earth and easy to follow with your recipes, also you are the ‘Free From Fairy’ that is your copyright and i think you would be on to a winner – good luck

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