Weekend Shepherds Pie
Weekend Shepherds Pie

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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.

Weekend Shepherds Pie is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Weekend Shepherds Pie is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have weekend shepherds pie using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Weekend Shepherds Pie:
  1. Make ready 4 large baking potatoes
  2. Make ready 1 large onion diced
  3. Prepare 1/2 butternut squash
  4. Take 500 g minced lamb
  5. Get 400 mls thinned out gf beef gravy
  6. Get 2 tbsp tomato purée
  7. Get Salt and pepper
  8. Make ready 1 tsp onion granules
  9. Prepare 1 tsp garlic granules
  10. 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.

Steps to make Weekend Shepherds Pie:
  1. 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.
  2. Fry the diced onion in some olive oil for a few minutes then add 1/2 of the butternut squash finely diced.
  3. 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.
  4. Add the garlic granules, onion granules and basil. Simmer the mince on the hob now over a low heat for about 40 mins.
  5. 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.
  6. 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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