What do you have with cottage pie?

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Please settle a debate 😀

I always do ours with baked beans for the kids and sketti hoops for me (none bb eater)

My mate has hers with bread and butter 😱

We put peas in the pie but yes then red pickled things mash the mash go pink

Peas. My mum used to serve it with peas and chips. Being a bit more health conscious these days I don’t serve it with the chips - it was a spectacular dinner though!

Do people have dry cottage pies to have to add gravy. We put carrots and celery in ours with tinned tomatoes and stock. We also put leeks in the mash on top. So a meal in itself

Nothing, it doesn't need anything as everything is in the cottage pie.

My MIl always did it with garlic bread. I sometimes have it with broccoli on the side as wouldn't add that in a cottage pie :)

Nothing. It contains every food element necessary. Maybe just a bit of extra gravy.

Nothing, there is everything in it - meat, carbs, cheese, vegetables.

We have lots of veg in ours as well as kidney beans so serve it on its own

Green beans.

Usually some veg, maybe some beetroot. Occasionally with baked beans. Haven’t had it for years

We don't have anything with cottage pie or shepherd's pie. I always put loads of carrots and onions in, and the topping is potato, so I don't see a need for anything else.

Cabbage, broccoli or peas.

Green veg & Yorkshire puds.

Beans or spaghetti hoops with cottage pie is criminal!

I put a lot of veg in the meat part of the pie.

Then tend to serve with broccoli or sometimes nothing.

Green beans with a bit of fried sliced red onion stirred through is my favourite side for both cottage and shepherd's pie

Please tell me this is a joke.

Some kind of green veg usually. I feel like an additional side of veg just completes it, DH always would just have it on its own.

I'm on a freezer clearance mission and there are two Yorkshire puds languishing in there - I might add them 😂 as an experiment!

@RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie it works! I do butter and brown sauce

It's a bit like a pasty barm minus the pastry

Not something I'll be trying! It sounds hideous - and I consider myself Northern!

Broccoli, green beans, buttered new potatoes.

I've just come back to the thread and I've never been so overwhelmed 😀😀😀

Id love a cottage pie it's rainy and cold here!

We would have ours with kale or broccoli. And gravy!

What???? Brown sauce. Has to be. I rarely besmirch it with anything but if you put a gun to my head maybe some purple sprouting broccoli.

DD would have it with chips or rice but she's a heathen.

I might do one for tea tonight. It hadn’t occurred to me that pickled beetroot or red cabbage could be northern, but I am.