English Shepherd's Pie
English Shepherd's Pie

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Drain, let cool and remove skins. Spur cream is optional but does add flavor to the potatoes. Originally, a pie made with any kind of meat and mashed potato was called a cottage pie. In modern British English, the dish is usually called "cottage pie" if it is made with beef.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have english shepherd's pie using 21 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make English Shepherd's Pie:
  1. Make ready The Filling:
  2. Take 1 1/2 lb Ground Lamb or Beef (1 1/2 pounds)
  3. Get 2 tbsp Olive Oil
  4. Prepare 1 large Carrot (grated)
  5. Take 1 large Onion (grated)
  6. Get 1 tsp Fresh Rosemary
  7. Take 1 tsp Fresh Thyme
  8. Get 4 clove Garlic (crushed)
  9. Take 1 pinch Salt
  10. Prepare 1 pinch Pepper
  11. Prepare 3 tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
  12. Make ready 1 can Tomato Puree or Paste (small)
  13. Take 1/4 cup Chicken Stock
  14. Make ready The Mash:
  15. Take 1 1/2 lb Golden Potatoes (1 1/2 pounds)
  16. Take 1/4 cup Heavy Cream
  17. Make ready 3 1/2 tbsp Butter
  18. Take 1 pinch Salt
  19. Take 1 pinch Pepper
  20. Make ready 2 Egg Yolks
  21. Take 1/4 cup Parmesan Cheese

Shepherd's pie, cottage pie, or hachis Parmentier is a ground meat pie with a crust or topping of mashed potato of English origin. The recipe has many variations, but the defining ingredients are ground red meat cooked in a gravy or sauce with onions, and topped with a layer of mashed potato before it is baked. ~ Wikipedia Traditionally, shepherd's pie is made with lamb (hence the name). However, as the dish gained wider popularity outside of its native English homeland (where using beef would make this a cottage pie), beef became a common substitute, especially in America where it's more widely available than ground lamb. In England, the birthplace of this hearty dish, shepherd's pie is most often made with a ground lamb filling.

Instructions to make English Shepherd's Pie:
  1. Preheat the oven at 180º
  2. Peel and slice your potatoes evenly, then place in a sauce pan of boiling water. Add some salt and set a timer for 15mins. In this time you can start on your filling.
  3. In a seperate large pan, pour in the Olive Oil and once heated add your meat and stir vigorously for a few minutes until it's nice and brown and broken into very small pieces.
  4. Add the Rosemary, Thyme, Garlic, Salt and Pepper, then stir some more. Quickly add your Carrots and Onion and stir a little longer so everything is to a minced consistency.
  5. Stir in the Worcestershire Sauce then add the Tomato Puree and stir for few minutes. Pour in the Chicken Stock and cook for 3 more minutes. By this time your potatoes should be ready.
  6. Take your potatoes out and strain the water off. Put the potatoes into a medium mixing bowl and mash the potatoes with all the mash ingredients.
  7. Scoop the meat mixture into a deep casserole or other oven proof dish and then spoon the mash over the top. Spread the mash over using the bottom of the spoon and sprinkle a generous portion of Parmesan Cheese over the top. Poke the top with a fork several times then stick it in the oven for 18-20 minutes to brown the potatoes and set the pie.

However, as the dish gained wider popularity outside of its native English homeland (where using beef would make this a cottage pie), beef became a common substitute, especially in America where it's more widely available than ground lamb. In England, the birthplace of this hearty dish, shepherd's pie is most often made with a ground lamb filling. In the States, it's more common to use ground beef. Both are delicious, and lamb can. This is how to make a real English shepherds pie, made with lamb.

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