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Shepherd’s Pie
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Gosh you guys, this recipe turned out soooo amazing and surpassed my expectations. It is so flavoursome and that mash… Let’s take a moment to appreciate it. Hope you all love it.
Ingredients:
Filling:
- 1 large brown onion, finely diced
- 1/2 cup Finely diced carrots
- 1/2 cup finely diced celery
- 3 cloves of garlic, crushed
- 500 grams beef mince
- 1/2 cup finely diced white mushrooms
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 tablespoons plain flour
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 1 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 cup beef stock
- 1/2 cup roughly chopped fresh flat leaf parsley
- 3 tablespoons fresh thyme leaves
- 1 tablespoon fresh/dry rosemary
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cracked black pepper
- 2-3 tablespoons light olive oil
Mash:
- 800 grams Desiree potatoes, peeled and cut into 2inch cubes
- 1 tablespoon salted butter
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cracked black pepper
- 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
Method:
- Place potatoes in a medium pot, cover with cold tap water. Place on medium heat and bring up to the boil, lower heat and simmer for 10-15 minutes while we start on the filling mixture.
- Place 2-3 tablespoons of olive oil in large sauté pan on medium low heat, sweat onion, carrot and celery for 6-8 minutes with the lid on, or until softened.
- Stir in garlic for 1 minute, until fragrant.
- Remove lid and turn heat up to medium high, brown off mince meat breaking up any lumps.
- Pre heat oven at 200C fan forced
- Add mushrooms and bay leaves, stir for a couple of minutes.
- Lower heat to medium low and stir in plain flour and tomato paste for 2 minutes.
- Add Worcestershire sauce, beef stock and herbs (parsley, thyme and rosemary), salt and pepper. Simmer on low heat with the lid on for 2-3 minutes.
- Meanwhile drain your potatoes and leave them in the pot.
- Add butter, milk, garlic powder, salt, pepper and mash until fluffy.
- Fold in parmesan cheese to the mash.
- Take a 23cm round pie dish and pour in mince mixture. Top with mash, carefully evenly distributing mash to the surface of the mice mixture.
- Optionally top with extra fresh parsley.
- Bake uncovered for 15 minutes.
- Allow to cool for 15 minutes before serving.
Tips/Substitutions:
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- Add in additional vegetables such as peas, corn, broccoli etc
- For a dairy free option leave parmesan out and replace whole milk with milk of choice such as oat, almond or coconut.
- Replace potatoes with sweet potatoes for a different option.
- Mixture can be used as meat pie filling.
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