How to Prepare Shepherd's Pie

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, shepherd's pie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Want To Learn How To Make Delicious Pies? Place in a medium saucepan and cover with cold water. Set over high heat, cover and bring to a boil.

Shepherd's Pie is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Shepherd's Pie is something that I have loved my entire life.

Recipe of Shepherd's Pie

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have shepherd's pie using 12 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Shepherd's Pie:

1. Make ready 2 lbs Yukon gold potatoes, peeled and diced
2. Take 1 pound ground beef
3. Make ready Large onion, diced
4. Take 1/2 each red, yellow, green pepper diced
5. Prepare 2 Tbs each rosemary and Italian seasoning
6. Make ready 1 Tbs each onion and garlic powder
7. Get 1/4 cup AP flour
8. Prepare 2 cups low sodium beef stock
9. Get 1/2 cup milk (I used almond)
10. Take 1 stick unsalted butter
11. Prepare 1 lb bag frozen corn
12. Prepare to taste S&P

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. Shepherd's Pie comes to us from England, and is traditionally made with lamb or mutton. 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.

Instructions

Instructions to make Shepherd's Pie:

1. Peel and dice potatoes. Add to pot of water.
2. Bring to a boil and cook until potatoes are very soft
3. While potatoes are cooking, dice onion and peppers
4. Add 2 Tbs olive oil to skillet and once hot, add onion and peppers. Cook til translucent
5. Add ground beef and seasoning to skillet and cook until no longer pink
6. Preheat oven to 400°
7. Add flour to skillet and cook a few minutes, stirring often
8. Add stock and cook until thickened. Turn off heat
9. Once potatoes are soft, drain and put back into the pot with butter and milk and S&P. Mash.
10. In a greased deep 9x13 baking dish, add beef mixture. Add corn, and top with potatoes
11. Bake for about 30 minutes or until top is golden
12. I like to top it with shredded sharp cheddar cheese and cook until melted.

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). 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. So, this is how you spell it: Shepherd's Pie.

As simple as that Recipe of Shepherd's Pie

So that’s going to wrap it up for this exceptional food shepherd's pie recipe. Thanks so much for your time. I’m confident you can make this at home. There’s gonna be more interesting food at home recipes coming up. Remember to save this page on your browser, and share it to your family, friends and colleague. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!

Print this page