SCALLOPED POTATO COTTAGE PIE – The Southern Lady Cooks

This Scalloped Potato Cottage Pie is a hearty dish your family will love. It is loaded with vegetables, meat, and potatoes!

This is a hearty dish, and if you love it, you will also want to try this delicious Crock Pot Mississippi Roast! It’s a wonderful dish served over mashed potatoes.

❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE

We love this dish because it is loaded with flavor, lots of vegetables, spices, meat, and potatoes. I will admit this dish takes some time, it doesn’t come together super quickly but it is hearty and delicious. It reheats well too!

🍴KEY INGREDIENTS

Meat Ingredients

• Ground beef or ground turkey
• Oil (we used olive)
• Onion
• Carrots
• Celery
• Baking soda
• Water
• Worcestershire sauce
• Canned mushrooms
• Salt and Pepper
• All purpose flour
• Beef broth

Potato Ingredients

• Russet potatoes, peeled and cut into slices
• Whipping cream
• Garlic
• Ground nutmeg
• Salt & Pepper
• Four
• Grated parmesan
• Cheddar cheese, grated

🍽️HOW TO MAKE

Like I stated above this dish takes a little time, peeling and cutting up the potatoes, boiling them, etc. However, I like to try to make all the things at the same time, and then it comes together quicker.

COOKING STEPS

Step 1
Boil the potatoes (already sliced) in water (add salt) for about 5 minutes or until they begin to feel soft. Drain and let cool. First, we want to add the baking soda and water to a large bowl and mix well; this will help us keep the ground beef from drying out. Add the ground beef to the bowl, plus the salt and mix well. In a hot skillet, add beef, and cook until brown. Remove beef from pan and drain grease.

Step 2
Add celery, carrots, and onions to the skillet and saute until they soften, then add beef back to the skillet. Add in the beef broth and Worcestershire sauce. Increase the heat until the beef mixture begins to boil, and continue to stir until it begins to become thick. Add parsley, mushrooms, salt and pepper as needed. Turn down, cover and let simmer for 30 minutes or until beef mixture is nice and tender.

Step 3
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Pour beef mixture into a greased 9X13 baking dish. Top with sliced potatoes. Next make the scalloped potato topping. Combine the flour and cream, then heat it on the stove and add all the spices with salt and pepper. Add enough heat that this thickens; normally, a simmer will do. Pour over the potatoes and then top with parmesan and cheddar cheese. Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes or until potatoes have a nice brown top.

⭐TIP

You can use whatever cheese your like and add or take out vegetables. This is a very versatile.

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STORING, REHEATING & SERVING SIZE

This dish is stored in the refrigerator, reheats really well in the microwave or covered with foil in the oven on 350 for 10-12 minutes. It makes about 8 servings.

Scalloped Potato Cottage Pie

Judy Yeager

This cottage pie is a hearty dish that your family will love. Full of delicious vegetables, spices, ground beef or turkey and topped with potatoes!

Prep Time 30 minutes mins

Cook Time 27 minutes mins

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Meat Ingredients

• 2 pounds of ground beef or ground turkey
• 1 tablespoon of oil we used olive
• 1 1/2 cups of chopped onion
• 1 1/2 cups of chopped carrots
• 1 1/2 cups of diced celery
• 1 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
• 1 tablespoon of water
• 1 tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce
• 6 ounces of canned mushrooms
• ½ teaspoon of salt
• 1/8 th teaspoon of pepper
• 1/4 th cup of all purpose flour
• 2 cups of beef broth

Scalloped Potatoes:

• 2 lbs of russet potatoes peeled and cut into slices
• ⅔ cup of whipping cream
• 2 teaspoons of minced garlic
• 1/4 th teaspoon of ground nutmeg
• ½ teaspoon of salt
• ⅛ teaspoon of pepper
• 1 tablespoon of flour
• ½ cup of grated parmesan
• 4 ounces of cheddar cheese grated

• Boil the potatoes (already sliced) in water (add salt) for about 5 minutes or until they begin to feel soft. Drain and let cool. First, we want to add the baking soda and water to a large bowl and mix well, this is going to help us keep the ground beef from drying out. Add the ground beef to the bowl, plus the salt and mix well. In a hot skillet, add beef, and cook until brown. Remove beef from pan and drain grease.

• Add celery, carrots, and onions to the skillet and saute until they are starting to soften, then add beef back to the skillet. Add in the beef broth and Worcestershire sauce. Increase the heat until the beef mixture begins to boil, and continue to stir until it starts to become thick. Add parsley, mushrooms, salt and pepper as needed. Turn down, cover and let simmer for 30 minutes or until beef mixture is nice and tender.

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Pour beef mixture into a greased 9X13 baking dish. Top with sliced potatoes. Next make the scalloped potato topping.

• Combine the flour and cream, then heat it on the stove and add all the spices with salt and pepper. Add enough heat that this thickens; normally, a simmer will do. Pour over the potatoes and then top with parmesan and cheddar cheese.

• Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes or until potatoes have a nice brown top.

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