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The Best Classic Shepherd's Pie Recipe with meat and vegetable gravy and cheesy mashed potatoes..with the kind of refrigeration we had in our homes, cooked meat could be kept much more safely than raw. Therefore, when housewives bought their Sunday meat they selected pieces large enough to. American favorite shepherd's pie recipe, casserole with ground beef, vegetables such as carrots, corn, and peas Shepherd's Pie comes to us from England, and is traditionally made with lamb or mutton.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have shepards pie using 27 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Shepards pie:
- Make ready For the mashed potatoes:
- Take 1 bag potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
- Prepare Water to cook the potatoes (enough to cover)
- Make ready 1 teaspoon salt
- Prepare 3-4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- Make ready 1/2 cup milk
- Make ready For the meat filling:
- Make ready 3 tablespoon cooking oil
- Prepare 1 large onion, finely diced
- Get 3-4 carrots, finely diced
- Make ready 500 g mince lamb (or any mince meat of preference)
- Get 2-3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- Prepare 300 ml beef stock/broth (or chicken)
- Get 2 tablespoon tomato paste/purée
- Prepare 1 teaspoon dry rosemary
- Get 1 teaspoon dry thyme
- Take 1-2 teaspoons dry parsley
- Take 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon paprika powder
- Get 1/2 nutmeg powder, optional
- Prepare Salt and pepper to season
- Get 1 cup frozen peas, soaked in warm water
- Make ready 2 teaspoons corn flour
- Take 2 tablespoons water
- Make ready Garnish:
- Take Grated cheddar cheese, sprinkled over the top of the mash, optional
- Get Grated black pepper, optional
This easy Shepherd's Pie recipe is filled with lots of veggies and tender ground beef (or lamb), simmered together in the most delicious sauce, and topped with the creamiest mashed potatoes. Plunge your spoon into a shepherd's pie with creamy mash and flavourful lamb mince. We've got traditional recipes, plus spiced and vegetarian alternatives. Shepherd's pie is traditionally made with a ground-lamb filling, but we make ours with ground beef.
Instructions to make Shepards pie:
- Place the peeled and cut potatoes in medium sized pot. Cover potatoes with enough cold water and add salt. On high heat bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer, and cook potatoes until tender.
- While the potatoes cook, melt the butter in a large sauté pan on medium heat. Add the chopped onions and cook until translucent tender (roughly 6 to 10 minutes). Tip: if adding vegetables, include them according to their cooking time. Carrots should be cooked along with the onions, as they take as long as the onions do.
- Once onions and carrots are cooked to the pan or wok, add mince meat, Worcestershire sauce, stock/broth, tomato purée, herbs, paprika, cumin and nutmeg powder (optional) and season with salt and pepper. Stir frequently and cook until no longer pink. When the meat is fully cooked add the peas and cook for about a minute as peas take little time to cook. Reduce heat to low and simmer for about 10 minutes. Tip: if the pie filling looks dry add more stock/broth to prevent meat drying out.
- Now check potatoes are cooked. Tip: when you can pierce it with a knife or fork, and it easily goes through and slides off. Turn of heat and remove the potatoes from the pot using a slotted spoon and place in a bowl.
- Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6.
- In a bowl or sauce pan add butter and milk, mash potato using a fork or potato masher, and season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Taste the meat mixture and adjust seasoning if necessary (add more pepper, salt etc). Once the meat filling has reduced, turn off the heat. In a small bowl add corn flour and water. Mix and add to the mixture. Once the mixture is thickened to preference turn heat off.
- To assemble, layer all of the meat mixture at the bottom of casserole dish.
- Then spread the mash on top. To create texture rough up the surface of the mashed potatoes with a fork. If using grated cheese, sprinkle over the top of the mashed potato.
- Place in the preheated oven and cook until bubbling and the surface has browned (roughly 30 minutes). If necessary, change the oven setting to grill for a few minutes towards the end to brown the tops.
- Place a serving of Shepard's pie on a plate or bowl. Serve and eat immediately while hot. Tip: Pie can also be served with extra gravy and a side of green vegetables.
The sauce is really simple and flavorful, but the best part is the insanely fluffy mashed potato topping. Shepherd's pie is a classic comfort food recipe that's healthy, hearty and filling. The bottom layer is a simple a mix of ground lamb and vegetables, simmered into a delicious savory sauce. This meat pie topped with mashed potato is traditionally made with lamb, when made with When I first posted this recipe many years back I spelled it incorrectly as Shepards Pie. Try the classic shepherd's pie recipe or mix it up with a veggie shepherd's pie with lentils, or add parsnips to your mash like Nigel Slater.
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