Upside-Down Cottage Pie

Ingredients:
3/4 loving cup caramelized onions *
ane tablespoon butter
ii carrots, diced
ii parsnips diced
ane bulb fennel, chopped
vi oz crimini mushrooms, chopped
ane 3/4 lb cubed sirloin
1/4 loving cup dry out reddish wine, optional
ane sprig's worth of rosemary, chopped
ane 1/2 tablespoons fresh thyme leaves
ii teaspoons chopped fresh sage
ane bay leaf
fine flour (like Wondra)
salt
freshly soil dark pepper
beef stock

to serve:
ii lbs warm mashed potatoes


Directions:

In a medium, Dutch or French oven saute the onions, herbs, spices, carrots, fennel, mushrooms, too parsnips inwards butter until the vegetables get down to soften.

Toss meat alongside the flour. Add meat to the vegetables. Stir until the meat is lightly browned. Add the liquids to simply encompass the mixture.

Bring to a boil too then trim oestrus too simmer, covered, 45 minutes or until the beef is tender, stirring occasionally.

Serve over mashed potatoes.



*I used leftover caramelized onions I made using this method too froze. I defrosted them inwards the pan inwards a fight of butter earlier adding the vegetables. Or caramelize ii onions too purpose them instead.

My thoughts:

This yr too I gauge the halt of the concluding has been my yr to experiment alongside diverse types of beef stew dishes. I discovered that the stew meat at Aldi (where I am nearly every week anyway) is peculiarly good--not also fatty, non to thin too gets really tender as good inwards the dull cooker or stove top.

I was going to brand a traditional cottage pie (a shepherd's pie made alongside beef instead of lamb) alongside it this fourth dimension but I had the persuasion to invert it too serve the filling on top of the mashed potatoes too skip the baking part. The downside is that y'all don't larn the crispy corners of white patato that y'all commonly larn alongside cottage pie but the upside it that it shaves similar xxx minutes off the cooking time, making it possible to brand this for a weeknight dinner (if y'all bring 45 minutes to allow it simmer virtually unattended on the stove) or a less time-consuming weekend meal. It also agency less dishes too makes nifty leftovers.

I genuinely loved the results, the fennel too parsnips added a touching on of sweetness too a ton of depth to the flavors too eliminated the postulate for whatever side dishes.