🥧 Shepherd's Pie

Minced meat tucked under a mashed potato blanket, off to bed.

• 1h 5mTotal time
• 🍳 I can cook a littleDifficulty
• 520kcal
• 4Portions

• 🥩 Beef
• 🇬🇧 British
• 🤗 Comfort food
• 🍳 One pan

Ingredients

• 500g ground lamb
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 1 carrot, diced small
• 1 cup frozen peas
• 2 tbsp tomato paste
• 1 cup beef or lamb stock
• 1 tsp dried rosemary
• 6 large potatoes, peeled and boiled
• 3 tbsp butter
• 1/2 cup milk
• Salt and black pepper

How to make it

1. Sauté the onion in a little oil until soft, add the ground lamb and cook until browned.
2. Add the carrot, tomato paste, stock, rosemary, salt and pepper, and simmer gently for 15 minutes.
3. Stir in the frozen peas at the end, cook for 2 minutes, then pour the mixture into a baking dish.
4. Mash the boiled potatoes with butter, milk and salt until smooth.
5. Spread the mashed potato evenly over the meat layer all the way to the edges, then rough up the top with a fork.
6. Bake at high heat for 20 minutes until the top is golden and crisp.