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Jacket Potato Cottage Pies

Cottage Pie Jacket Potatoes - Slimming Style

Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 2 hours
Total Time: 2 hours 20 minutes
Servings: 6
Calories: 470kcal
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Delicious and easy little cottage pies baked in a jacket potato, healthy!

Ingredients

  • 6 medium to large Baking Potatoes
  • 500 g Minced beef <5% fat
  • 1 onion peeled and finely chopped
  • 1 Garlic Clove peeled & finely chopped
  • 100 g mushroom chopped
  • 2 medium carrots grated
  • 2 Beef Stock Cubes
  • 3/4 pt water
  • 1 Table spoon Bisto Gravy Granules
  • 100 g Cheddar Cheese grated for sprinkling, weight is up to you

Instructions

  • Preheat your oven to 180C / 350F / Gas4 
  • Mince
  • Place a heavy bottomed casserole dish on the hob,  add the minced beef, garlic ,onion and fry off for 5 minutes until the mince starts to brown
  • Next add the grated carrots, mushrooms,  stock cubes & black pepper and fry for a final 5 minutes, stirring occasionally
  • Then add the water and stir Pop in the oven for 1 hour - with NO LID - stir after 30 minutes 
  • After 1 hour remove mince from oven and  stir in quickly the gravy granules
  • Leave to cool whilst your potatoes continue to cook
  • Potatoes
  • Once your mince has been in the oven for 30 minutes, using a knife carefully pierce your potatoes once
  • Pop your potatoes in the oven with your mince and bake for 30 minutes.
  • Remove your mince from the oven (as above) 
  • Turn up the oven to 200C/400F/ Gas6  and continue to bake your potatoes for a further 45 minutes (approx 75minutes in total)
  • Check your potatoes are  baked and the skins are crispy, remove from the oven
  • Construction
  • Slice the baked potatoes in half, longways, it might help to hold them in a tea towel and they are hot
  • Using a teaspoon scoop out the potato filling and place in a bowl. Do this to all 16 halves
  • Mash the potatoes, do not use butter or milk, just season with salt & pepper if desired
  • Next take a dessert spoon full of the cooled mince and pop it into each half (do not fill them full). Do this to all 16 halves
  • Then using a teaspoon top each half with mash potato. Be careful to fill all the gaps and fill the potato skin (you don't want any gaps, else the gravy will escape on baking)
  • Carry on until all your 16 half potatoes are full If you are eating them all immediately then sprinkle with grated cheddar and bake in a preheated oven for 30 minutes until piping hot and golden
  • Serve as desired
  • If you are freezing some,  freeze unbaked open on a tray, after an hour or so in the freezer bag up and pop back in the freezer for another day Defrost fully before baking
  • Bake
  • Preheat Oven to 200C / 400F /Gas 6
  • Pop in an ovenproof dish and bake 30 minutes top shelf of the oven, until piping hot and golden brown

Notes

*** All nutritional information is approximate and intended as a guide

Nutrition

Nutrition Facts
Cottage Pie Jacket Potatoes - Slimming Style
Amount per Serving
Calories
470
% Daily Value*
Fat
 
23
g
35
%
Saturated Fat
 
10
g
63
%
Trans Fat
 
1
g
Polyunsaturated Fat
 
1
g
Monounsaturated Fat
 
9
g
Cholesterol
 
77
mg
26
%
Sodium
 
509
mg
22
%
Potassium
 
1282
mg
37
%
Carbohydrates
 
43
g
14
%
Fiber
 
4
g
17
%
Sugar
 
4
g
4
%
Protein
 
24
g
48
%
Vitamin A
 
3566
IU
71
%
Vitamin C
 
15
mg
18
%
Calcium
 
178
mg
18
%
Iron
 
4
mg
22
%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.