How to Cook Perfect Shepherd's Pie

Shepherd's Pie. Place in a medium saucepan and cover with cold water. Set over high heat, cover and bring to a boil. Traditionally, shepherd's pie is made with lamb (hence the name).

But since I'm Scottish, I thought I'd give it a unique twist to suit my ancestral tastes. The use of lamb, the smoky, heather taste of Guinness® Draught (Irish, I admit), and the topping of sharp Cheddar and smoked paprika give this version its unique, smoky-sweet flavor. This is a recipe for Cottage Pie. You can cook Shepherd's Pie using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Shepherd's Pie

1. It's 6 of red Potatoes.
2. You need of Cheddar cheese.
3. You need 300 gram of Minced beef.
4. It's 1 of small onion - chopped.
5. Prepare 3 cloves of garlic - chopped.
6. It's of Fresh rosemary.
7. You need of Fresh thyme.
8. You need 150 ml of fresh milk.
9. Prepare 1 of carrot - chopped.
10. Prepare To taste of butter.
11. It's To taste of salt.
12. You need To taste of pepper.
13. Prepare 2 tablespoon of flour.
14. Prepare of Olive oil.
15. Prepare 1 of Egg yolk.
16. Prepare 2 tablespoon of tomato paste.
17. You need as needed of Beef broth.

This is a recipe for Cottage Pie. Thank you, Dale Shepherd's Pie is basically a beefy pot pie with mashed potatoes on top instead of a crust, and mashed potatoes make everything better, don't they? So, this is how you spell it: Shepherd's Pie. But, from doing a quick google search, it came to my attention that TONS of people think it's Shepards Pie.

Shepherd's Pie step by step

1. Bring a pot of salted water to boil then put potato in to the boiling water and cook until tender. Peel the skin, mash and mix with cheddar cheese, yolk,butter, milk and salt pepper. Set aside.
2. In a pan heat olive oil and fry chopped onion then add chopped garlic and fry until fragrant, add carrot and cook about 3 minutes.
3. Add minced beef,rosemary, thyme, flour, salt,pepper, and fry untill beef golden brown..
4. Add beef brot and tomato paste, bring to boil and reduce heat then simmer for 5 minutes.
5. In a baking dish spread beef, layer with mashed potato and flatten well.
6. Bake in the oven in 200 c for 20 minutes or untill golden brown..
7. And this is it,, have done and ready to serve.

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 comes to us from England, and is traditionally made with lamb or mutton. Here in the states we are more of a beef eating culture than a lamb eating one, and when one is served "shepherd's pie" here, it is most often made with ground beef. Shepherd's pie is traditionally made with a ground-lamb filling, but we make ours with ground beef.