Easiest Way to Make Shepherd's pie in 27 Minutes for Family

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, shepherd's pie. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Place in a medium saucepan and cover with cold water. Set over high heat, cover and bring to a boil. Yes, shepherd's pie is predominantly thought of as Irish or British.

Shepherd's pie is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Shepherd's pie is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook shepherd's pie using 14 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Shepherd's pie:

1. Make ready 1 kg meat
2. Get Onions
3. Get Garlic
4. Get Ginger
5. Make ready Tomatoes
6. Take 1 cup diced carrots
7. Get 1 cup cooked peas
8. Get Potatoes
9. Get Powdered tumeric (optional)
10. Make ready Powdered ginger(optional)
11. Get Cooking oil
12. Take Black pepper
13. Take 1 scoop butter
14. Prepare Milk

Here in the states we are more of a beef eating culture than a lamb eating one, and when one is served "shepherd's pie" here, it is most often made with ground beef. 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. Best Shepherd's Pie 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 These shepherd's pie recipes run the range from the traditional (featuring ground or minced lamb) to the modestly modified (ground beef instead of lamb) to the more modern and experimental (vegan or paleo shepherd's pies).

Steps to make Shepherd's pie:

1. Brown the meat on a pan with some cooking oil. Heat is on high
2. As it starts browning, add chopped onions, diced carrots and black pepper. Stir everything
3. Add salt, garlic-ginger paste, stir and cook for a minute. *garlic-ginger paste is made by blending garlic,ginger and a pinch of salt, or grinding them together using a kitchen pestle and mortar.
4. Add tomatoes and a little water, then cover your cooking pan/ pot and allow to simmer.
5. While the meat is simmering, pot the potatoes in a pot with water, salt, powdered tumeric powdered ginger and boil till tender.
6. To the meat add some water if it has dried up, then add the cooked peas. Let it heat up a little, remove from heat and let cool.
7. For the potatoes, once tender, drain any excess water.
8. Add some butter/margarine, a bit of milk and mash until creamy. * mash while hot.
10. Using an oven proof dish, fill it halfway with the cool minced meat. Smoothen the top. Preheat oven at 180°c
11. Scoop the hot or warm mashed potatoes and spread it evenly so as to cover the meat.
12. Place the dish into the oven for 20-30 min or until the po6turn golden brown.
13. Scoop and serve

You can't go wrong with any of these savory one-pot comfort-food casseroles, complete meals that also feature veggies, a savory gravy, and a mashed potato (or a surprise. 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. 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.

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