Shepherd's Pie
Shepherd's Pie

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, shepherd's pie. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Shepherd's Pie is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Shepherd's Pie is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

Place in a medium saucepan and cover with cold water. Set over high heat, cover and bring to a boil. Shepherd's Pie recipes are traditionally done with lamb, but are great with any ground meat–turkey and beef being the most popular modern versions.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have shepherd's pie using 11 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Shepherd's Pie:
  1. Take 1.5 kg minced beef
  2. Get Seasonings and spices: ginger powder,oregano,rosemary,maggi,salt
  3. Make ready Potatoes
  4. Take Chopped peppers and onions
  5. Make ready Tomato paste
  6. Get Mixed veggies:carrots,greenbeans,peas,sweet corn,greenpepper,etc
  7. Make ready 3 teaspoons flour and water
  8. Take Grated cheese
  9. Get Parsley
  10. Get Unsalted butter
  11. Take Milk

Shepherd's pie is traditionally made with a ground-lamb filling, but we make ours with ground beef. The sauce is really simple and flavorful, but the best part is the insanely fluffy mashed potato. 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.

Steps to make Shepherd's Pie:
  1. Wash, strain and put the meat on medium heat
  2. Add seasonings and spices. Don't add water or oil.
  3. Allow to simmer, then add chopped peppers and onions.
  4. Add little tomato paste
  5. Add your mixed vegetables, cover and allow to simmer on medium heat.
  6. To enhance it and make it a bit sticky, add a mixture of water and flour.
  7. Peel, wash and dice your potatoes.
  8. Boil until very soft.
  9. Mash the potatoes with unsalted butter.
  10. Add a little milk.
  11. Grate any cheese of your choice and fold into the mashed potatoes (it should look fluffy). You can also add chopped parsley.
  12. Layer the minced meat in your casserole dish.
  13. Top with the mashed potatoes and spread evenly with a spatula.
  14. Then use a fork to make intricate patterns if you wish.
  15. Bake at 450F/220°C for about 20 minutes or until golden brown.

This is the best shepherds pie recipe I've ever had, and it comes from a friend who was a whiz at pinching pennies without sacrificing hearty flavor.—Valerie Merrill, Topeka, Kansas This easy shepherd's pie is a layered casserole of ground beef and veggies in a homemade gravy. It's topped with Cheddar cheese mashed potatoes. So, this is how you spell it: Shepherd's Pie. But, from doing a quick google search, it came to my attention that TONS of people think it's Shepards Pie. Traditional Irish Shepherd's Pie would actually call for ground lamb.

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