Does anyone else add baked beans to cottage pie mince?

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I've always made cottage pie by adding a tin of baked beans into the beef mince mix. I was looking through recipes recently and none mentioned baked beans, so I now feel like some sort of heathen. What do you include? 😬

In theory it should be fine, essentially white beans and tomatoes, but baked bean manufacturers add so much sugar, they would ruin the taste.

No. I occasionally bulk it out with lentils (or make it with just lentils) but wouldn’t use baked beans.

My mother used to serve baked beans on the side, and I don’t even like that!

Yes, we call it cowboy pie

Yes into shepherds pie. V tasty. Adds a little something.

No but I use probably twice as much soffrito as suggested.

My mum did this as I was growing up & my DH loves it!

Yes! My mum always does!

I adore baked beans. But not, under any circumstances, in a cottage pie. Or bolognaise. Just all wrong!

DM used to do that to make it go further.

Can’t imagine not adding baked beans, the taste would be ruined.
Only the middle class have eaten it without baked beans.
🍴🍴😁😁.

I often put small tin in a beef stew.

Yes if I need it to stretch a bit further or I think we need a bit of extra fibre/less red meat.

Yes! My Grandma and my Mum did too!

Always, I love baked beans. I like them with salad and mashed/jacket potatoes for lunch which my husband thought was a dreadful combination but not me. I can eat them with anything especially a nice steak.

My dad does. I don't.

I knew a woman once who would put a tin of vegetable soup in hers.

Soffrito - in a cottage pie?

Yes, or a tin of lentils - extra protein, fibre and makes the meat go further

Hell no. Why would I ruin food of the gods by adding devil's spawn?

The first thing I would do as world ruler would be to abolish baked beans.

No! BUT I make a cheap “cottage” pie with just beans, mash layer, and cheese on top. One of my favourite meals 🤣

I wouldn't add them or bulk it out with horrible lentils. I would eat baked beans with cottage pie though.

Same here! But never in the pie itself.

Yes I do, the tomato sauce makes the gravy richer. I also add tomato puree as well as carrots and onion.

We have the reduced sugar baked beans!

I've done this occasionally when the DC still lived at home, especially when they were ravenous teenagers; they loved it. It's actually quite good.

It’s a poor person thing, in bolognese too. anything with beef mince to bulk it out = beans