# Shepherd's Pie

Shepherd's pie is a savory dish with a layer of minced meat and vegetables, topped with mashed potatoes and baked until golden.

- Cuisine: British
- Category: Dessert
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 1 kg ground lamb
- a pinch salt
- a pinch pepper
- 1 onion
- a handful carrots
- a handful celery
- a drizzle olive oil
- a pinch thyme
- a pinch rosemary
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 cinnamon stick
- a pinch cumin
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- a splash red wine
- a dash Worcestershire sauce
- a cup broth
- 10 potatoes
- a splash cooking cream
- a splash milk
- a few cubes butter
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- a pinch nutmeg
- 2 egg yolks
- a handful green peas
- a handful grated parmesan cheese
- a handful fresh chives

## Instructions

1. Unwrap the ground lamb.
2. Place the ground lamb into a hot pot.
3. Season the lamb with salt and pepper.
4. Break up the lamb with a potato masher and cook until browned.
5. Drain the fat from the cooked lamb and set aside.
6. Dice the onion.
7. Dice the carrots.
8. Dice the celery.
9. Drizzle olive oil into the pot and add the diced onions, carrots, and celery.
10. Season the vegetables with salt and pepper.
11. Sauté the vegetables until softened.
12. Add thyme, rosemary, bay leaves, cinnamon stick, and cumin to the vegetables.
13. Chop the garlic.
14. Add the chopped garlic to the sautéed vegetables.
15. Stir in tomato paste.
16. Deglaze the pot with red wine.
17. Add Worcestershire sauce.
18. Add the cooked ground lamb back to the pot.
19. Pour in broth.
20. Cover the pot and let it simmer.
21. Place potatoes into a baking tray, drizzle with olive oil, and bake at 200°C.
22. Pour cooking cream into a saucepan.
23. Add milk and thyme to the cream.
24. Once the potatoes are baked, remove them from the oven and cut them in half.
25. Press the cooked potatoes through a potato ricer into a bowl.
26. Strain the cream mixture into the mashed potatoes.
27. Add butter, Dijon mustard, nutmeg, salt, pepper, and egg yolks to the potatoes.
28. Mix until smooth.
29. Remove the cinnamon stick and bay leaves from the lamb mixture.
30. Add green peas to the lamb mixture and stir.
31. Spread a layer of mashed potatoes onto a baking tray.
32. Spread the lamb and vegetable mixture over the mashed potatoes.
33. Cover the lamb mixture with the remaining mashed potatoes.
34. Create a pattern on top of the mashed potatoes with a fork.
35. Grate Parmesan cheese over the mashed potatoes.
36. Bake the shepherd's pie in the oven at 250°C until golden brown.
37. Remove the shepherd's pie from the oven.
38. Finely chop fresh chives.
39. Sprinkle the chopped chives over the baked shepherd's pie.
40. Cut and serve a portion of the shepherd's pie.

## Equipment

- cutting board
- knife
- pot
- potato masher
- spatula
- baking tray
- oven
- saucepan
- sieve
- bowl
- grater

## Source

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- Extracted: 2025-07-30

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