Recipe: Perfect Shepherd's Pie

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Shepherd's Pie. Although it is called a pie it doesn't use any pastry and is so cheap, quick and easy to make, you'll enjoy making it! 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.

Shepherd's Pie Add the cream mixture into potatoes and mash until. 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. You can have Shepherd's Pie using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Shepherd's Pie

  1. Prepare 6 of red Potatoes.
  2. Prepare of Cheddar cheese.
  3. It's 300 gram of Minced beef.
  4. Prepare 1 of small onion - chopped.
  5. It's 3 cloves of garlic - chopped.
  6. It's of Fresh rosemary.
  7. Prepare of Fresh thyme.
  8. It's 150 ml of fresh milk.
  9. Prepare 1 of carrot - chopped.
  10. Prepare To taste of butter.
  11. You need To taste of salt.
  12. It's To taste of pepper.
  13. Prepare 2 tablespoon of flour.
  14. It's of Olive oil.
  15. You need 1 of Egg yolk.
  16. You need 2 tablespoon of tomato paste.
  17. Prepare as needed of Beef broth.

Shepherd's pie is to the British as meat loaf is to Americans, so when I was a young child living. 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. Irish Shepherd's Pie Traditional Irish Shepherd's Pie would actually call for ground lamb.

Shepherd's Pie step by step

  1. Bring a pot of salted water to boil then put potato in to the boiling water and cook until tender. Peel the skin, mash and mix with cheddar cheese, yolk,butter, milk and salt pepper. Set aside.
  2. In a pan heat olive oil and fry chopped onion then add chopped garlic and fry until fragrant, add carrot and cook about 3 minutes.
  3. Add minced beef,rosemary, thyme, flour, salt,pepper, and fry untill beef golden brown..
  4. Add beef brot and tomato paste, bring to boil and reduce heat then simmer for 5 minutes.
  5. In a baking dish spread beef, layer with mashed potato and flatten well.
  6. Bake in the oven in 200 c for 20 minutes or untill golden brown..
  7. And this is it,, have done and ready to serve.

The difference between Shepherd's Pie and Cottage Pie is the meat. Cottage Pie uses ground beef, while Shepherd's Pie uses ground lamb. In England, the birthplace of this hearty dish, shepherd's pie is most often made with a ground lamb filling. In the States, it's more common to use ground beef. Both are delicious, and lamb can.