Recipe: Tasty Shepherd's pie

Shepherd's pie. Shepherd's Pie comes to us from England, and is traditionally made with lamb or mutton. What follows is a simple recipe for a ground beef version of Shepherd's Pie..with the kind of refrigeration we had in our homes, cooked meat could be kept much more safely than raw. Therefore, when housewives bought their Sunday meat they selected pieces large enough to.

The Best Classic Shepherd's Pie Recipe with meat and vegetable gravy and cheesy mashed potatoes. 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. You can cook Shepherd's pie using 17 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Shepherd's pie

1. You need 1 of ground beef or lamb.
2. It's 1/4 cup of frozen corn.
3. It's 1/4 cup of frozen peas.
4. You need 1/4 cup of frozen or fresh carrot cubed.
5. You need 3 of large potatoes.
6. You need 1 of small onion, chopped.
7. You need 3 clove of garlic.
8. You need 2 tbsp of ketchup.
9. It's 1 of paprika.
10. Prepare 1 tsp of ground black pepper.
11. It's 1/4 tsp of chili powder.
12. You need 1/4 cup of water.
13. It's 1 of oil to cook meat.
14. You need 1/4 cup of cheese.
15. Prepare 1/4 tsp of ground cinnamon.
16. It's 1/3 cup of flour.
17. You need 1/4 cup of milk.

Shepherd's pie is a classic comfort food recipe that's healthy, hearty and filling. The bottom layer is a simple a mix of ground lamb and vegetables, simmered into a delicious savory sauce. Shepherd's pie with rich lamb and creamy mash is winter comfort food at its best. The peaks and ridges on the mash just adds to the appeal!

Shepherd's pie instructions

1. If a pan, add the oil, onion and chopped garlic.
2. Let it cook for couple of minutes then add the beef or lamb.
3. Keep stirring.. you can little bit of cinnamon powder to remove the smell of lamb or beef **optional**.
4. Once the meat is cooked, add the flour and keep stirring till the flour is golden.
5. Add all the spices and the ketchup.. keep stirring.
6. Add the water then the veggies.
7. Cover over low heat for 5 minutes.
8. Add the meat to the pan that will go to the oven.
9. Boil the potatoes in boiling water then peel them and mash them.
10. In a cooking pan add bit of oil and the mashed potatoes.. keep stirring then add the milk and cheese.
11. Spread the mashed potatoes over the meat.. make some groves using a fork to the top of the potatoes.
12. Cook in the oven for 20 min 350°F.

Growing up, my family had a tradition of big Sunday dinners. Nearly every Sunday we'd go to our grandparents house for some kind of pot roast or ground beef dish, mashed potatoes. You likely know Shepherd's pie as a homey, comforting casserole — one that combines a flavorful stew of ground beef, peas, carrots (and sometimes corn) with mountains of creamy mashed potatoes. Shepherd's pie is traditionally made with a ground-lamb filling, but we make ours with ground beef. This lightened up Shepherd's Pie recipe, filled with lean ground beef, veggies, and topped with yukon gold mashed potatoes would be perfect for all you meat and potato lovers out there!