Shepherd's Pie Done RIGHT
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▪2.5lb/1200g peeled russet potatoes
▪350g or about 2med onions, chopped
▪200g or 2-3 large carrots, medium diced
▪200g or 3-4 ribs celery, medium diced
▪200g or about ½ bulb fennel, medium diced
▪20g or 4-5 cloves garlic, chopped
▪40g or 3Tbsp olive oil
▪3lbs/1.5kg ground lamb (sub lean beef if you can’t find lamb)
▪salt
▪250g or 1c dry red wine (pinot noir, chianti, cab, etc…)
▪50g or 3 ½ Tbsp tomato paste
▪50g or 2 ¾ Tbsp beef paste (better than bouillon if you can find it)
▪50g or 3 ¾ Tbsp worcestershire
▪2g or 1t black pepper
▪2g or 2t fresh thyme, chopped
▪25g or 3 ½ Tbsp all purpose flour (sub gf flour or corn starch)
▪450g or 1 3/4c beef stock (sub chicken)
▪15g or 1/4c parsley, chopped
▪150g or 1 1/4c frozen peas
▪115g/1 stick unsalted butter, melted
▪125g or 3/4c heavy cream
▪125g or 1/2c sour cream
▪125g or 1c grated parmesan
▪3 egg yolks
Add potatoes to a stock pot, cover with water and bring to a boil. Once boiling, reduce heat to medium low and cover. Cook for 30-40min or until a knife or cake tester doesn’t meet resistance when inserted. Drain and pass through a potato ricer.
Stir in melted butter, cream, sour cream, parm, and two very large pinches of salt. Taste for seasoning. Add more salt if needed. Stir in egg yolks.
Toss all cut veggies together in a bowl.
Heat a large heavy bottomed pot over high. When hot, add olive oil and ground lamb and break apart while cooking. It should take about 5 minutes for the water to cook off then 5-10 more minutes to brown meat.
When meat has begun to take on color and brown fond is forming in the bottom of the pot, add veggies and 1Tbsp 15g of salt. Stir to combine and cook for 3-4 more min until veg has begun to soften. Add wine to deglaze pot, scraping up fond on the bottom.
Stir in tomato paste, bouillon, worcestershire, and black pepper. Once wine is mostly reduced, stir in thyme and flour. Cook until bottom of the pot glazes up with fond again, then add stock. Bring to a simmer then cover and lower heat to medium low to simmer until sauce is reduced by half and veggies are tender, about 10 min. Taste for seasoning and adjust with salt if needed.
Off heat, stir in parsley and peas.
Scoop filling into a 9”x13” (23cm x 33cm) baking dish. Press into dish and smooth to create an even layer. Spoon mashed potato mixture over the top and spread into even layer. Use a spoon or knife to “rough up” the top of the potatoes. You’re creating texture that can get crisp here. Feel free to be creative. Top with parmesan cheese.
Place baking dish on a sheet tray and bake in a preheated 425F/220C oven for 25min. After 25 min, move dish under a high broiler for a minute or so until top is golden and crusty - keep an eye during broiling because potatoes can burn quickly.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro
0:10 Making the potatoes for the “crust”
0:38 Making the shepherd’s pie filling
4:22 My love of cereal is real (ad)
5:21 Finishing the filling
5:58 Building and baking the pie
8:17 The reveal
8:50 Let’s eat this thing
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Shepherd's Pie in a cast iron pan | lamb and peas filling, cheesy potato topping
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***RECIPE, SERVES 6-8°°°
2 lb (907g) ground lamb
3-4 carrots
1 large onion
Half a bottle (3 cups, 375mL) white wine
2 teaspoons dried thyme
1 teaspoon dried sage
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon mustard powder
1/2 cup (118mL) Worcestershire sauce
1/4 cup (60mL) tomato paste
1/4 (30g) flour (use more if you want your filling more solid)
water or stock
salt
pepper
a stock cube, or a spoonful of stock concentrate (like Better Than Bouillon), or a few ice cubes of homemade demi-glace from this recipe:
fresh rosemary (very optional)
10 oz bag (280g) frozen peas
2 lb floury potatoes
1 stick (4 oz, 110g) butter
milk
2 egg yolks
2 oz (50g) cheddar cheese
salt
chives (very optional)
This recipe is calibrated for a 12-inch (30 cm) oven-safe skillet, but you could cook the filling in any pan and simply transfer it to a suitable baking dish.
Put the lamb into the pan and flatten it into a disk across the entire surface. Turn the heat on high underneath. While it heats up and starts to cook, grate or finely chop the carrots and onion. When the lamb is brown on the bottom, stir in the carrots and onion with a wooden spoon, scraping the bottom and breaking up the meat as you go.
Keep cooking and stirring until much of the water has evaporated, 5-10 min. When you notice the pan starting to dry out, reduce the heat to medium. When things start sticking to the bottom of the pan again, stir in the tomato paste and flour, and cook for another minute or two, until burning of the fond is imminent. Deglaze with the wine.
Stir in the Worcestershire, herbs and spices (except for salt), stock concentrate or demi-glace, and enough water to cover. Reduce heat to a simmer and cook until reduced and quite thick, at least half an hour.
Peel the potatoes and cut them into big chunks. Cover them in water and boil them until very fork-tender. Drain. Put in the butter and let it melt in the heat of the potatoes. Mash the potatoes, stirring in enough milk to get a slightly looser texture than you'd normally want for mashed potatoes. Grate in the cheese, put in the egg yolks, stir until smooth, then taste for seasoning and add as much salt as you want. (The egg yolks might not be totally cooked at this stage, so if you need to be cautious about pathogens, taste for seasoning before you mix in the eggs.) Keep the mash warm until you're ready to put it on the pie.
Get your oven heating to 400ºF, 200ºC, ideally convection.
When the meat filling is reduced and thick, take it off the heat — the cooler it is when you top the pie, the better. Chop up the fresh rosemary and put it in (if you've got it), and stir in the frozen peas (still frozen). Smooth out the surface of the meat filling, then drop on the potatoes in large dollops. Pull with the back of a spatula to spread the potatoes out toward the pan edges and get everything covered in an even, thin later. If you want, use a fork to make some ridges in the surface that'll brown nice and look pretty.
Bake the pie until the potatoes are puffy and the filling is bubbling, about 30 min. Take it out and top it with finely chopped chives, if you have them. Let cool at least 20 minutes before scooping.
How To Make British Shepherd's Pie
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How To Make British Shepherd's Pie
Mash
4 potatoes, boiled in water until soft
3 tbsp melted butter
1/2 cup milk
salt/cracked pepper
1 cup grated cheese (parmesan can be used)
Filling
1 finely diced onion
1 grated carrot
3 tbsp oil
500g lamb mince
salt/cracked pepper
2 crushed garlic cloves
2 tbsp tomato paste
1 tbsp worcestershire sauce
2 cups chicken stock
1 tbsp flour to thicken
garnish with fresh mint or parsley before baking
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Ingredients
- 2 carrots, grated
- 1 brown onion, diced
- Small bunch thyme, finely sliced
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 800g lamb mince
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 2 tbsp tomato paste
- 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 200ml red wine
- 600ml chicken stock
- 150g frozen peas
- 1 kg potatoes peeled
- 100ml milk
- 100g parmesan
Method
1. In a large pan over med-high heat, add the oil and once it’s hot saute the onions with a pinch of salt
2. After 3 minutes, add the carrot and cook for a further 2 minutes
3. Add the thyme and then the lamb mince with a good pinch of salt and pepper
4. Stir well before adding the Worcestershire sauce, wine and tomato paste
5. Cook this down until the wine is almost gone then add the stock and cook for 1 hour on low
6. While this is cooking, place the potatoes in a large pot and cover with water and a big pinch of salt. Cook over med-high heat for 25-30 minutes or until the potatoes are fork tender
7. In the last 5 minutes of cooking the lamb, add the peas and stir well
8. Mash the cooked potatoes and stir through the butter, milk and half of the parmesan. Mix well
9. Add the lamb to a large oven-proof dish and top with the mash and finish with the grated parmesan
10. Place into a 180c over for 25 minutes or until golden brown
Shepherd's Pie - You Suck at Cooking (episode 122)
Shepherd's Pie, not to be confused with Shepherd's Cake, is a delicious savory pie which looks and tastes nothing like dessert.
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Recipe
Chop finely or shred a big ass onion
Shred a big carrot (or two medium carrots)
Shred or finely chop 2 or 3 garlic cloves
Heat up some olive grease in a pan on medium
Fry the onion, carrot, and garlic for a few minutes until soft
Create a ring of fire and put around a pound or 500g beef in the middle
Add in a teaspoon of salt and some triple P
Brown the beef and then reunite all of the food components
Add in:
1 tablespoon Wercestishire sauce
1 tablespoon red wine vinegestishire sauce
1 small tin of tomato paste
A pinch of rosemary
A pinch of thyme
Let me know if I forgot anything
Wangjanlge together until thoroughly combined for a couple minutes
Add in a cup of broth: beef, chicken, veggie, barguest, grindelow, whatever
Thaw a wild peasicle then add in some peas (an amount that you think is good)
Add in some apple corn (an amount that you think is good also)
Wangjangle into Shepherd’s Slop, until it gets thickish again
Go back in time 20 minutes
Cut up some potato chunks
Boil them in extremely salty water for 15-20 minutes or until you fork says so
Mash them with some butter and milk or cream, then add in some garlic powder and parmesan or grana padano, or some other cheese if you want
Wangjangle until they are literally clouds
In a 9 X 9 baking dish (or whatever you have), put the Shepherd’s Slop downstairs, and the starch frosting upstairs, then add some diary sprinkles
Undoh’s on three seventy fundoh, bake for 20 to 30 minutes until the top starts to brown
Take that dish of Shepherd’s Pie out of the undoh then let it sit for ten minutes then serve to your friends, or your enemies, depending on the mood you’re in.