Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, shepards pie. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Shepards pie is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Shepards pie is something which I have loved my entire life.
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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have shepards pie using 27 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Shepards pie:
- Prepare For the mashed potatoes:
- Prepare 1 bag potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
- Make ready Water to cook the potatoes (enough to cover)
- Make ready 1 teaspoon salt
- Take 3-4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- Prepare 1/2 cup milk
- Get For the meat filling:
- Take 3 tablespoon cooking oil
- Get 1 large onion, finely diced
- Get 3-4 carrots, finely diced
- Prepare 500 g mince lamb (or any mince meat of preference)
- Make ready 2-3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- Take 300 ml beef stock/broth (or chicken)
- Prepare 2 tablespoon tomato paste/purée
- Prepare 1 teaspoon dry rosemary
- Make ready 1 teaspoon dry thyme
- Get 1-2 teaspoons dry parsley
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon paprika powder
- Prepare 1/2 nutmeg powder, optional
- Make ready Salt and pepper to season
- Take 1 cup frozen peas, soaked in warm water
- Take 2 teaspoons corn flour
- Take 2 tablespoons water
- Make ready Garnish:
- Take Grated cheddar cheese, sprinkled over the top of the mash, optional
- Prepare Grated black pepper, optional
Once boiling, uncover, decrease the heat to. Learn how to prepare rich and flavorful shepherd's pie with Food Network's amazing recipes. Keep it traditional or kick it up a notch with fun, creative twists. Traditionally, shepherd's pie is made with lamb (hence the name).
Steps 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.
Keep it traditional or kick it up a notch with fun, creative twists. Traditionally, shepherd's pie is made with lamb (hence the name). However, as the dish gained wider popularity outside of its native English homeland (where using beef would make this a cottage pie), beef became a common substitute, especially in America where it's more widely available than ground lamb. The "traditional" Shepherds Pie was made with minced lamb because that was abundantly available, England didn't have lots of cows but there were plenty of sheep. My mom was British, I was born and lived in England, but when we moved to America even my mom made it with beef and still called it Shepherds pie.
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