How to Make Lamb Shepherds Pie in 18 Minutes for Beginners

Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, lamb shepherds pie. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Lamb Shepherds Pie is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Lamb Shepherds Pie is something that I have loved my whole life.

Combine the garlic, bay leaf, carrot, celery, onion and oil in a medium skillet and cook, covered, over low heat, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables are. Shepherd's Pie with Lamb - The result of an effort to recreate the best lamb shepherd's pie we've ever had, this recipe will blow you away with it's tangy, spicy flavor. Meat and potatoes never tasted so good!

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lamb shepherds pie using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Lamb Shepherds Pie:

1. Prepare Lean Mince Lamb
2. Get Potatoes
3. Make ready White Onion
4. Get Carrots
5. Make ready Frozen Peas
6. Get Glass of Red Wine
7. Get Lamb Stock Cube
8. Take Paprika
9. Get Dried or Fresh Rosemary
10. Take Salt and Pepper (to season)
11. Make ready butter

Trim and chop lamb into bite sized pieces and place in a medium sized mixing bowl. This lamb pie—or "shepherd's pie" as it's called across the U. K. and Ireland—is a savory casserole made of ground meat and peas and carrots cooked in a rich gravy and topped with a mountain of mashed potatoes—or puff pastry—or both (as we do here), and sometimes cheese (yup, we do that, too). as a brit I love shepherd's (lamb) and cottage (beef) pie. A couple of thoughts: -works brilliantly with leftover roast lamb (leg) or beef, dice finely rather than grind and cut out a lot of the.

Instructions to make Lamb Shepherds Pie:

1. Mash: Peel and Cut Potatoes into small chunks and boil in salted water for 30 mins or until soft. Drain and mash with a knob of butter, season to taste with salt and pepper. This can be done in advance and left to go cold.
2. Heat 2 knobs of butter gently in a frying pan. Dice the Onion and Carrot and add to the pan. Add finely chopped Rosemary and season with salt and pepper. Cook gently for 10 minutes, don't burn.
3. Once soft, remove onion and carrot from pan and place into a cooking bowl (used to build and cook the pie later).
4. Use the same pan (don't clean), turn the heat to high and fry the Lamb in small batches. Don't add any oil. This should only take 20-30 seconds per batch. Drain off excess fat if necessary. Add cooked Lamb to bowl with onions and carrots.
5. Use the same pan (don't clean), leave on a high heat and add the Red Wine. Allow to boil and reduce - add Lamb stock cube to thicken. You can also use gravy granules to thicken if desired. Once reduced and thickened to a 'gravy' add to cooking bowl with lamb, carrots and onions. Mix in the frozen peas.
6. Cover the pie with mash potato and sprinkle Paprika on top. The pie can now be left to cook later (up to 2 days). Cook at 190°C for 35-40 minutes in the center of a preheated oven.

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. This is truly the traditional shepherds pie. As the allrecipes.com video on this states Shepherds raised sheep not cow hence the use of lamb and not beef and the name "Shepherds Pie. I made this exactly as written and it was delicious.

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