Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, weekend shepherds pie. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Weekend Shepherds Pie is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Weekend Shepherds Pie is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
Sneak Preview: Weeknight Shepherd's Pie is a simple way to use pot roast or roast beef leftovers. Add veggies to beef and gravy. Top with mashed potatoes and bake.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook weekend shepherds pie using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Weekend Shepherds Pie:
- Take 4 large baking potatoes
- Make ready 1 large onion diced
- Get 1/2 butternut squash
- Prepare 500 g minced lamb
- Prepare 400 mls thinned out gf beef gravy
- Get 2 tbsp tomato purée
- Make ready Salt and pepper
- Get 1 tsp onion granules
- Prepare 1 tsp garlic granules
- Get 1 tsp dried basil
Set over high heat, cover and bring to a boil. Although it is called a pie it doesn't use any pastry and is so cheap, quick and easy to make, you'll enjoy making it! 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.
Instructions to make Weekend Shepherds Pie:
- Peel the potatoes and cut into large chunks. Add in half of the squash you have (1/4 of a whole squash). Boil until tender. While the veg is cooking prepare the mince filling.
- Fry the diced onion in some olive oil for a few minutes then add 1/2 of the butternut squash finely diced.
- Add the mince and continue to fry for 5-10 mins until browned. Add the tomatoes purée then your gravy (use 2 tsp gravy granules to 400 mls water) - this gives a beef stock that is also gluten free and yeast free.
- Add the garlic granules, onion granules and basil. Simmer the mince on the hob now over a low heat for about 40 mins.
- Spoon the mince filling into a baking dish. Mash the potatoes with a good glug of quality olive oil and use it to spread on top of the mince.
- Bake at 190 C for 30 minutes. Done!
The Best Classic Shepherd's Pie - AKA Shepards Pie or Cottage Pie. Ground Beef (or lamb) with vegetables in a rich gravy, topped with cheesy mashed potatoes, and baked. In England, the birthplace of this hearty dish, shepherd's pie is most often made with a ground-lamb filling. In the States, people use ground beef, which is what we call for here. Cottage pie is the perfect holiday dish, especially for Christmas Day.
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