Small 2-Ingredient Casseroles · Number 1

Cottage Pie

  • Two ingredients
From the chair at a small enamel-topped kitchen table: one ordinary dinner plate of cottage pie, gravy pooling round a golden crust, one fork, the covered half waiting at the far edge
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You need

Good to know: Two suppers each; salt, pepper, water, butter and oil are free.

What to do

  1. Oven 400°F.
  2. Stew into a 1-quart dish.
  3. Stir the potatoes into 1 cup boiling water; spread to the edges and drag a fork across.
  4. Bake 25 min, until the gravy bubbles and the ridges are golden.
  5. Rest 5 min.

Adapted from a recipe by Dinty Moore.

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