Shepherd's Pie

My favorite food is “Shepherd’s Pie”, which is an Irish dish from the 1700’s. You make a Shepherd’s Pie by making a meat mixture with gravy and putting it in a casserole dish, then putting cheesy mash on top before baking it all together. My dad and I like to make our meat mixture with ground lamb, because that’s the “proper way” according to him, but some people use ground beef. Although, he calls that a “Cottage Pie not Shepherd’s Pie”.

I like Shepherd’s Pie because every bite has meat, gravy, and mash. There’s also vegetables in the meat mixture. We use peas and carrots, but I know a lot of people also use a celery stalk. I don’t like celery, though, so we don’t use that. Maybe that means ours isn’t a “proper” Shepherd’s Pie, too, but it’s really tasty so I don’t care all that much.

Shepherd's Pie Recipe

Ingredients

• 500 g lamb(ground)
• 350 ml chicken stock
• 1 kg mashed potatoes
• 1 stalk celery (we omit this)
• 1 carrot
• 60 g peas (we use frozen)
• 1 onion
• 1 clove garlic
• 1 tbsp tomato paste
• 2 sprigs thyme
• 2 tbsp flour
• 30 g parmesan cheese (grated)
• Salt and Pepper
• Olive oil for frying

Directions

1. Preheat over to 200 degrees Celsius
2. Finely chop onion, garlic, and thyme leaves. Peel and fine dice carrot. Fine dice celery.
3. Heat olive oil and sear ground lamb, breaking it up with a cooking spoon (about 2 min). Add onion, garlic, thyme, carrots, peas, and celery. Fry for 5 to 8 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
4. Add tomato paste and fry for 1 to 2 min, until cooked down. Add flour and stir constantly for about 2 to 3 minutes.
5. Add chicken stock and simmer over medium heat for about 10 to 12 minutes.
6. Place meat into large ovenproof baking dish and spread mashed potatoes evenly on top.
7. Top with parmesan and bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, until golden.

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