What do you serve with cottage pie?

[Someonesayroadtrip]

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.

Someonesayroadtrip Cough Cough

Green beans and broccoli

Peas or green beans. Loads of gravy. Mmmmmm now I want cottage pie

*peas not widdle on the side though

Just had to rummage in the freezer to see if I had any mine after reading this thread. Suddenly Sunday lunch is going to be a bit more winter comfort food tomorrow.

My mum served it with crispy stuffing balls. This is a tradition I have continued - although garlic bread sounds lovely too!

My Mum always did baked beans. Sometimes she warmed a tin of Italian tomatoes instead and steamed some broccoli.

I add peas and diced carrots to my cottage pie and don't serve anything with it. Its a complete dish with meat veg and potato 😊

Please ignore my comment I should have read the thread through first.

Depends how much veg is in the filling sometimes nothing but extra gravy. I like a dryish mix in summer with coleslaw, or more gravy in the mix and leaks and peas in winter.

Pickled beetroot - but it is getting harder to find a suitably acidic beetroot - they all have too much sugar in them.

Usually kale or savoy cabbage. Plus bread & butter.

Mines got carrots and peas in so served by itself. Actually I've just finished a plate

Otherwise kale maybe? Or cabbage?

Just lots of veg.

Brocolli or cabbage for me, peas for DH

Red cabbage or beetroot. Mmmmmmmmmmm

Petits pois or broccoli and extra gravy, which has to be Bisto Best, surely the king of instant gravies.

I've seen people eat it with baked beans! And ketchup!

Peas and gravy. DC when little had baked beans with it. If it's properly made with lamb, I like a bit of mint sauce with it.

Sorry, cottage pie is beef, shepherd's pie is lamb. Misread thread title.

Just peas

Pickled beetroot sounds nice, I agree, though, with a PP that it is usually too sweet nowadays. I should make my own I suppose.

I love it with beans. I know that's a bit weird!

Cottage pie I put LOADS of veg in it and then just have something green on the side like green beans, cabbage or broccoli. The kids like carrots and peas and Yorkshire's with it and a little bit of Bisto.

Came on to say what cricketmum said. Baked beans with either cottage or shepherds pie is yum!

Onion gravy
Baby carrots and petit pois or mashed swede/carrots
Sweated leeks and/or sprouts

No bisto/beans/spaghetti hoops (wtf) /ketchup or extra potato (why?) 🤢

Carrots and cabbage/broccoli/something green on night 1
Baked beans on night 2.