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Shepherd's pie

How to prepare "Shepherd's pie": potatoes, carrots, broth and milk. Step-by-step recipe with a photo, 17 stages, the total time is 1 hour 10 minutes.

Shepherd's pie recipe
PrepNot statedCook70 minServes3LevelAdvanced
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Before you start

A quick setup makes the method easier to follow and keeps important steps from being missed.

Preparation checklist

  • Read all 14 method steps from beginning to end.
  • Measure and arrange all 14 listed ingredients.
  • Set aside about 70 minutes, based on the time recorded by the source.

Recipe notes & preparation tips

Read the full method before you begin and prepare all ingredients in advance.

Taste near the end of cooking and adjust the seasoning before serving.

Adapted from the source recipe's notes.
Step by step

Method

  1. 01

    Shepherds Pie is made from potatoes and lamb minced with vegetables and cheese, and it is rather a casserole in our usual sense. A hearty, aromatic and very tasty dish.

  2. 02

    For cooking, you will need such products: potatoes, carrots. Onions, garlic, ground lamb (in my version of another minced meat), green peas (or in my version of beans pod), cheese, broth vegetable or meat, milk, butter, egg, turmeric or curry, coriander, salt and vegetable oil for frying.

  3. 03

    Peel the potatoes and put them on mashed potatoes.

  4. 04

    Clean the onions, carrots and garlic. Onions embed, carrots cut with straw and roast them in vegetable oil, add the chopped garlic and extinguish for 3 minutes.

  5. 05

    Then pour the broth, add the minced meat and extinguish until the mince is ready.

  6. 06

    At the end of the stew, add green peas or green beans.

  7. 07

    Flour roast in a dry pan until golden.

  8. 08

    Thicken the meat and vegetable filling with flour, add turmeric or curry and stir.

  9. 09

    With potatoes drain excess water, salt, add butter and coriander.

  10. 10

    Make a puree, add milk and an egg to it and stir.

  11. 11

    On the bowl oiled with oil or covered with bakery paper, lay a layer of meat and vegetable filling. On top, make a layer of mashed potatoes, sometimes it is squeezed beautifully out of a confectionery bag ...

  12. 12

    Bake in the oven at 200 degrees for about half an hour, and at the end of cooking sprinkle with grated cheese.

  13. 13

    Shepherd's cake is ready.

  14. 14

    Help yourself!

Ready to serve

Serve the dish as directed and enjoy it while it is at its best.

Bon appétit — enjoy your meal!
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Source & licence

This recipe was adapted and reformatted from Osiyo.ru / Аймкук . Text: Used with permission. Image: Used with permission, credited to Нина Минина-Р; view original image record .