Hachis Parmentier

Name: Hachis Parmentier
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 600g minced beef or leftover braised beef; 2 onions and 2 garlic cloves, chopped; 1 tbsp tomato paste; Thyme, parsley and bay; 1kg floury potatoes; 80g butter and 150ml milk; Grated Gruyère, for the top

Hachis Parmentier/ah-SHEE par-mon-TYAY/

Also known as: French Cottage Pie, Hachis Parmentier de Boeuf

About this dish

Minced beef cooked with onion and herbs, topped with buttery mashed potato and baked until golden.

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Ingredients

🥩600g minced beef or leftover braised beef

🧅2 onions and 2 garlic cloves, chopped

🍅1 tbsp tomato paste

🌿Thyme, parsley and bay

🥔1kg floury potatoes

🧈80g butter and 150ml milk

🧀Grated Gruyère, for the top

Method

Serves 4

Fry the onion and garlic, add the beef and brown it, then stir in the tomato paste and herbs and season. Simmer for 10 minutes.

Boil the potatoes and mash with butter, warm milk, salt and nutmeg.

Spread the meat in a baking dish and cover with the mash.

Rough up the top with a fork and sprinkle with Gruyère.

Bake at 200°C (400°F) for 25 minutes until golden.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Named after Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, who championed the potato in 18th-century France, it's a family classic often made from leftover pot-au-feu.

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