What do you serve with cottage pie?

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Love homemade cottage pie! Thinking I should make it this week but not sure what to serve with it. I usually do a pile of mixed veg. But just wondering what everyone else does? I know it doesn't really need anything extra.

Carrots and broccoli

@Remus your point is?

Sweat some chopped leeks in a knob of butter and stir in a handful of grated cheddar, then spread over the mashed potato layer. It’s a Delia idea.

With chips and backed beans is the best!

*baked

Veg in the cottage pie: carrots, onion & mushrooms
Veg with the cottage pie: peas, brocolli and/ or Savoy cabbage

Crusty bread if you have it.

Babycorn, and peas. We add Savoy cabbage sometimes as well.

Nothing, I hate boiling veg, what a faff that is. The whole point of cottage pie is you can make it and then leave it in the oven for ages and do something else! Not faff around in the kitchen peeling and cooking veg.

Carrots and green beans/cauliflower/broccoli or sprouts.

Spaghetti hoops and cheese on top of the pie, yum yum. Im really intrigued by the garlic bread, will have to try this next time.

I put the veg in it and just serve as it is. Tonight I'm doing the vegan lentil version with sweet potato mash to eat in front of strictly.

Why are people adding extra potato in various forms, when there is mash on top?

Do people have a very small portion of cottage pie and then add extras?Our portions would fill the plate. Mine usually has peas, carrots and tomatoes in and then cheese and leeks in the mash. Surely that is enough. And the sauce is quite wet so don't need added gravy

Shredded white cabbage and carrots salad (essentially coleslaw but without mayo).

I do like extra gravy. Ours is a veggie one, and I feel it needs extra gravy to make it feel 'meaty' enough, although I realise how daft that sounds!

Usually just the pie it's a one pot meal! Sometimes put broccoli on the side if I'm feeling hungrier than usual.

@ineedaholidaynow ...leeks in the mash sounds amazing! I usually have half veg and half cottage pie on my plate, our portion are still quite big probably though.

Baked beans!!!! It’s a source of major contention between my husband and I as to whether this is the most gloriously delicious winter warming combo or just plain weird.

Green beans/broccoli

My mouth is watering at the thought of cottage pie! I’m making one this week now! Not had one for ages

I love the mash with creme fraiche a la hairy bikers/dieters

I also make a lentil one (just with tinned lentils) with a sweet potato mash. Yumminess

Green veg. Any veg, really, but green goes best.

Brown sauce. Really. Takes it to a new level.

Green veg here.

Broccoli and red cabbage. I put peas in the mince and a layer of mashed carrot under the potato. My mum and aunt used to do it and it's a game changer!

Nothing. It's a complete meal in one when u make it. Full of veg and with potatoes on top you don't need anything else.

Green beans or peas