Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, baked shepherd's pie. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Shepherd's Pie recipes are traditionally done with lamb, but are great with any ground meat–turkey and beef being the most popular modern versions. Give this great casserole a try, and watch everyone flock to the table. Traditional Style Vegan Shepherd's Pie Rating: Unrated.

Baked Shepherd's Pie is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Baked Shepherd's Pie is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook baked shepherd's pie using 11 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Baked Shepherd's Pie:

1. Make ready 500 grams Potatoes
2. Take 150 grams Ground beef and pork mix
3. Prepare 1/2 medium sized Onion
4. Take 70 ml Milk
5. Prepare 30 grams Easy melting cheese
6. Prepare 1/4 tsp salt
7. Make ready 1/2 tsp Soy sauce
8. Make ready 1 dash Pepper
9. Make ready 1 dash Nutmeg
10. Get 1 Salt and pepper (For the mashed potatoes)
11. Get 1 Whisked eggs (This helps to brown the recipe more easily; optional)

Traditional Irish Shepherd's Pie would actually call for ground lamb. The difference between Shepherd's Pie and Cottage Pie is the meat. Shepherd's pie is traditionally made with a ground-lamb filling, but we make ours with ground beef. The sauce is really simple and flavorful, but the best part is the insanely fluffy mashed potato.

Steps to make Baked Shepherd's Pie:

1. Peel the potatoes, cut into fourths, and boil.
2. Finely chop the onions, and sauté in a pan coated with vegetable oil (not listed, about 1 teaspoon) until they become transparent.
3. Add the ground meat, cook until it changes color, add salt, soy sauce, pepper, and nutmeg and sauté some more.
4. Once the potatoes are cooked through, drain, season with salt and pepper, and mash.
5. Once they are pretty well mashed, add milk and mix thoroughly (Adjust the firmness to your liking with milk). Taste, and add more salt if needed.
6. Put half of the mashed potatoes into a casserole dish, and spread it out evenly.
7. Add all of the ground meat from step 3, and top with cheese.
8. Divide the remaining mashed potatoes into 3 equal portions and scatter on top.
9. Press it out evenly with plastic wrap.
10. Coat it with whisked egg; use a fork to make a pattern, and cook at 480°F/250°C for 15 minutes, and then at 570°F/300°C for another 5-6 minutes.
11. You are done once it turns golden brown!
12. *If you are having trouble getting it to turn golden brown, I have a little trick… Mix 1 teaspoon of Mirin in with the whisked eggs and coat, and it will turn golden brown easily.
13. **If you don't have Mirin, then bake at 570°F/300°C from the start until it browns, and then reduce the heat.

These shepherd's pie recipes run the range from the traditional (featuring ground or minced lamb) to the modestly modified (ground beef instead of lamb) to the more modern and experimental (vegan or paleo shepherd's pies). You can't go wrong with any of these savory one-pot comfort-food casseroles, complete meals that also feature veggies, a savory gravy, and a mashed potato (or a surprise. 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. Most recipes for any Shepherd's Pie say use beef or lamb.

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