Baked Shepherd's Pie
Baked Shepherd's Pie

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, baked shepherd's pie. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Peel and cube the potatoes; place in a large saucepan and cover with water. 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. Give this great casserole a try, and watch everyone flock to the table.

Baked Shepherd's Pie is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Baked Shepherd's Pie is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have baked shepherd's pie using 11 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Baked Shepherd's Pie:
  1. Get 500 grams Potatoes
  2. Take 150 grams Ground beef and pork mix
  3. Get 1/2 medium sized Onion
  4. Get 70 ml Milk
  5. Make ready 30 grams Easy melting cheese
  6. Get 1/4 tsp salt
  7. Make ready 1/2 tsp Soy sauce
  8. Make ready 1 dash Pepper
  9. Prepare 1 dash Nutmeg
  10. Get 1 Salt and pepper (For the mashed potatoes)
  11. Get 1 Whisked eggs (This helps to brown the recipe more easily; optional)

In a large skillet, cook the beef, onion, peppers and garlic over medium heat until beef is no longer pink; drain. 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. 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 Baked Shepherd's Pie:
  1. Peel the potatoes, cut into fourths, and boil.
  2. Finely chop the onions, and sauté in a pan coated with vegetable oil (not listed, about 1 teaspoon) until they become transparent.
  3. Add the ground meat, cook until it changes color, add salt, soy sauce, pepper, and nutmeg and sauté some more.
  4. Once the potatoes are cooked through, drain, season with salt and pepper, and mash.
  5. Once they are pretty well mashed, add milk and mix thoroughly (Adjust the firmness to your liking with milk). Taste, and add more salt if needed.
  6. Put half of the mashed potatoes into a casserole dish, and spread it out evenly.
  7. Add all of the ground meat from step 3, and top with cheese.
  8. Divide the remaining mashed potatoes into 3 equal portions and scatter on top.
  9. Press it out evenly with plastic wrap.
  10. Coat it with whisked egg; use a fork to make a pattern, and cook at 480°F/250°C for 15 minutes, and then at 570°F/300°C for another 5-6 minutes.
  11. You are done once it turns golden brown!
  12. *If you are having trouble getting it to turn golden brown, I have a little trick… Mix 1 teaspoon of Mirin in with the whisked eggs and coat, and it will turn golden brown easily.
  13. **If you don't have Mirin, then bake at 570°F/300°C from the start until it browns, and then reduce the heat.

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. 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. Most recipes for any Shepherd's Pie say use beef or lamb. That said, I made this version because it was fast and easy and I didn't have time for a more complicated recipe.

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