Shepherd’s Pie Recipe

Shepherd’s pie is an English dish. It is a pie grounded with red meat with top layer of mashed potatoes. The second name for shepherd’s pie is cottage pie. This dish place of origin is England. We prefer to make anything in less time and full of taste. Here we come across shepherd’s pie. Very easy and delicious. The meat sauce can be the leftover cooked minced meat. English people used to bake the cooked leftover minced meat with the top layer coating of mashed potatoes mix with cheddar. So that the meat does not get wastes away. And in no time you can bake the pie and enjoy a wonderful dinner.

Ingredients:

1.       Potatoes (1.5kg).

2.       Carrots (700 grams).

3.       1 large onion.   

4.       Rosemary (1 TBSP).

5.       Butter (1 TBSP).

6.       Cheddar (25 grams).

7.       Milk (1/2 cup).

8.       Egg yolk (1).

9.       Salt (1-2 TBSP).

10.   Black Pepper (1 TBSP).

11.   Olive oil (3 TBSP).

12.   Crushed garlic (3 cloves).

13.   Minced meat lamb (1 kg).

14.   Thyme powder (1 TBSP).

15.   Tomato paste (1 TBSP).

16.   Flour (4 TBSP).

17.   Beef broth (2 cups).

Recipe:

·         First of all lets start making the top layer of the shepherd’s pie. And for this take potatoes 1.5kg and peel them with a peeler. When peeled cut each potato into 4 pieces.

·         Take a water bowl to boil the potatoes in it. Add 1 TBSP of salt to the bowl and let it boil. Boil the potatoes until they are soft enough to chew of mashed with a fork.

·         When boiled take the potatoes out in a bowl. Add butter (1 TBSP), cheddar (25 grams), milk half cup and one egg yolk.

·         Mash it until all the things gets mixed and mashed properly. After this add salt (1 TBSP) and Black Pepper (1/2 TBSP). Mash until it gets smooth.

·         Now cut the carrots (700 grams) into small cubical shape. And chop one large onion, rosemary (1 TBSP), as used in an omelette. 

·         Take 3 TBSP of oil in a fry pan and add the chopped onions to the pan. Fry the onions until they turn their color into golden. This will take 2 to 3 minutes only. When done add crushed garlic 3 cloves and fry it well for another 2 minutes.

·         Add chopped carrots and fry until the carrots get smooth. When the carrots get tender it’s going to look like half cooked carrots. Add 1 kg of minced meat (lamb) and fry it well. Cook it for 5 to 6 minutes. Fry and mix it well in the vegetables.

·         You will see after 5 to 6 minutes the color of the minced meat will change from red to brown. Then add salt ½ TBSP, Black Pepper ½ TBSP, thyme powder 1 TBSP and rosemary 1 TBSP. Now mix it well.

·         Add 1 TBSP to tomato paste and flour 4 TBSP and mix it. Stir it well in the pan.

·         At the end add beef broth 2 cups in the pan. Cook it and bring it to simmer. Below the boiling point. Add peas (200 grams) and cook it until the sauce gets bit thicker.

·         Now transfer the meat sauce to a baking dish and cover its top with the mashed potatoes. Make a fine top layer with the mashed potatoes with the help of a fork.

·         Bake for 20 to 25 minutes in an oven. Set the temperature to 200C.

·         Your pie is ready to serve.

Note:

The meat sauce prepared can be replaced by any minced meat cooked. You can just add it to the baking dish and layer it with mashed potatoes. This is very simple if you have left over cooked minced meat. This is used in west as to use the leftover meat so that it doesn’t get wasted away. This is simple to bake and an easy dinner can be set in a very less time.