Homesick Fresher’s Cottage Pie

Prep time: 45 mins

Serves: 2 Freshers' Flu sufferers

 

• 2 tablespoons of oil (olive for severe cases of the F. flu)
• 2 tablespoons of tomato puree
• ½ Onion
• ½ Garlic clove (or 1 runt one)
• 1 Carrot
• 225g Potatoes
• 50g Lean Streaky bacon
• 225g Lean minced beef
• 75ml stock (veggie/ beef/ lama..)
• 3 teaspoons mixed herbs
• Dash of butter
• Dollop of milk
• Salt and pepper

 

 

 

Phase 1: Let's get saucy

1. Chop the onion, garlic and carrot. Chop the rinds off of the bacon and slice as thinly as you dare, depending on how much you value your fingers.
2. Find a sizeable micro bowl and put the oil, onion, garlic and bacon in it. Put a lid on and place in the micro for 3 mins.
3. Break up the minced beef, covering it with tomato puree and add to into the mix. Cover and cook for another 5 mins.
4. Pop your stock cube in a mug and then annihilate it in 75ml boiling water.
5. Add the stock and the herbs to the mix, season to taste and cook for 10 mins, stirring halfway.

 

Phase 2: Mash-up.

1. Put the meat mix to the side and keep it covered. Grab another bowl and pop your potatoes in, covering them with boiling water.
2. Cover and cook for 7 mins, stirring once. When the potatoes are tender, add the butter and milk and mash to your heart’s content.
3. Spoon the potatoes on top of the meat mix and put it all back in the micro for about 3 mins, checking occasionally that the kitchen is not filled with black smoke.
4. Tuck in to a plate of homely goodness!

 

Still room for dessert? This chocolate cake only takes 5 minutes!