Shepherd’s Pie Recipe
Shepherd’s Pie – the perfect comfort food ever! layer of ground lamb with vegetables cover with mashed potato layer. This dish is so rich and comforting! Perfect dish for cold winter days.
Shepherd’s Pie Recipe
Ingredients
For the meat mixture:
- 2 pounds 1kg ground lamb
- 1 large onion chopped
- 3 garlic cloves crushed
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 4 tbsp 30 flour
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ black pepper
- 1 tsp rosemary
- 1 tsp thyme
- 1 tbsp tomato paste
- 2 cups beef broth
- 7 oz 200g carrots
- 7 oz 200g peas (fresh or frozen)
For the puree:
- 3.5 pounds 1.5kg potatoes
- 1 tbsp butter
- ½ cup 120ml milk
- ¼ cup 25g cheddar cheese
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ black pepper
- egg yolk
Instructions
- DIRECTIONS1. Peel the potatoes and cut into 4. Place in a medium pot and cover with cold water. Set over high heat, add a teaspoon of salt, cover and bring to a boil. cook until tender. 2. While the potatoes are cooking, heat olive oil in a pan over medium heat. Add the onion and sauté 2-3 minutes, add crushed garlic and chopped carrots, sauté until the carrots are tender, about 5-7 minutes. 3. Add the ground lamb, Cook until no longer pink, about 5 minutes. Season with salt, pepper, chopped rosemary and thyme. Add tomato paste, flour and stir. 4. Add beef broth and frozen peas. Bring to a simmer, reduce heat to low and cook, stirring occasionally, until sauce thickens. 5. When the potatoes are done cooking transfer them to a bowl. Add butter, milk, egg yolk, salt and pepper. mash the potatoes until smooth. 6. Preheat oven to 400F (200C). 7. Layer the meat mixture in a 13"X8.5" (33X22cm) ovenproof dish. Spread the puree over the meat mixture. 8. Bake 20-25 minutes. or until mashed potato is golden brown. More Recipes You May Like: Check out other Dinner Recipes you may like
My girlfriend and I made this yesterday. It turned out very well, but we substituted beef for the lamb and definitely didn’t get lean enough meat, so we ended up having to put it in bowls. Despite this, the flavor was really on point, and I think the addition of rosemary and thyme really help to bring the other flavors together. Awesome recipe!
This recipe is devious and easy to make its a meal on its own, the leftovers are easily reheated very happy
I assume you meant to type delicious rather than devious” ???”
I agree – this is fabulous! We also used ground beef in lieu of the lamb and it was so good. I’m planning on making it again. Thank you.
This is a wonderful version. I made it tonight and it was by far the best shepherds pie I have ever made
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OMGGG I didn’t have flour but corn starch works the same in a pinch. The cheddar does really make a difference in the potato puree. Also recommend using russet potato so when baked it smells like fried potato! Thank you for this recipe
Instead of using 2 cups of beef broth I did 1 and 1 cup of dry red wine. Instead of adding both herbs together, the thyme to the sauce and the rosemary to the mash. Instead of cooking the onion first, i cooked the dice carrots first becausre is a root veg…
2 c onion
2 c carrots
2 peas
It was very useful to my son but presenting it was hard.
Good recipe. I’ve made a lot of shepherd’s pie – or cottage pie, in my case, as I use ground beef or turkey – and this is a good foundational recipe to start from, then you can customize and make it your own.
I didn’t see where to add the cheese so I grated on top after cooking halfway and it browned up beautifully. Big hit. Thank you!
I made this recipe with lean ground beef. It came out fantastic. We ate too much of it because it was so good. Highly recommend.
Made this yesterday with lean ground beef mince & it was delicious-others enjoyed it too. Thank you ! 🌺
The work time was about an hour (instead of 20 minutes?) but it’s a fantastic recipe! Mixed some extra cheddar cheese and green onions with the purée.
Just made this today and love it. used the recipe exactly. wish I could post pics.
Glad you liked it Stephen!
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Do u offer dairy free, pork free and shellfish free recipes?? Thank you.
Hello, What is the purpose of the egg yolk in the potatoes? Would it be ok to leave it out?
the recipe sounds interesting
go to the section that said print recipe only to get 6 pages of advertisement and one whole page of the pie ad a second page with the recipe
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Really great recipe! Flavour profile is excellent. I did make minor adjustments based on what I had in my fridge – For purée, I used coffee cream (10% cream) Instead of milk, Doubled the butter, cheese, salt and pepper. For meat filling adjustments: used minced beef or minced pork instead (made this recipe 3 different times In two weeks), reduced amount of stock – 1 c. chicken boullion stock instead of 2 c. beef stock, in place of fresh rosemary and thyme, used 1 teaspoon of dried poultry sea
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