James Martin and Michael Caines served up the perfect cottage pie with peas, red wine, beef stock and Worcestershire sauce on James Martin: Home Comforts.
The ingredients are: 8 medium baking potatoes, 1 tbsp vegetable oil, 600g beef mince, 2 onions, finely chopped, 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped, 4 sprigs thyme, leaves picked and finely chopped, 1 celery stick, finely diced, 2 tbsp tomato purée, dash Worcestershire sauce, to taste, 9 carrots, unpeeled, trimmed (1 finely chopped, 8 left whole), 100ml red wine, 500ml beef stock, 50g caster sugar, 125g butter, 150ml milk, salt and freshly ground black pepper, 8 medium baking potatoes, 1 tbsp vegetable oil, 600g beef mince, 2 onions, finely chopped, 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped, 4 sprigs thyme, leaves picked and finely chopped, 1 celery stick, finely diced, 2 tbsp tomato purée, dash Worcestershire sauce, to taste, 9 carrots, unpeeled, trimmed (1 finely chopped, 8 left whole), 100ml red wine, 500ml beef stock, 50g caster sugar, 125g butter, 150ml milk and salt and freshly ground black pepper.