Delicious shepherd's pie: the culinary heritage of British shepherds

English shepherd's pie: classic recipe

This dish is a casserole made from potatoes, vegetables and meat filling. Today you can find many different variations of this pie, but the most popular, as many years ago, remains the classic shepherd's pie.

To prepare this famous British dish, prepare the following ingredients:

Meat broth – 80 ml
Potatoes – 3 pcs.
Carrots – 1 pc.
Chopped celery stalks - 2.5 tbsp.
Lamb pulp – half kg
Homemade milk – 50 ml
Onion – 1 pc.
Tomato paste or sauce – 1 tsp.
Hard cheese – 70 g
Greens - a couple of bunches
Olive oil – 25 ml
Salt, pepper, curry - at your discretion

Classic
The cooking process will consist of the following stages:

Let's start with the meat filling, which we will make from lamb pulp. Rinse the piece of meat and dry it with disposable napkins. Next, use a meat grinder or blender to make minced meat.
Potatoes must be peeled, washed and boiled.
Grind the cheese on a grater.
Wash and dry the greens, then chop them.
Peel the carrots and onions, wash and chop. The shape of the chopped vegetables for this recipe is not so important, however, most often they are cut into small cubes.
The celery according to the recipe is already chopped. If you buy whole celery stalks, wash them, dry them and chop them in any convenient way.
As soon as the potatoes are cooked, you need to mash them. We will make mashed potatoes by adding homemade milk and spices to the potatoes.
Add the specified amount of oil to the pan and fry the carrots and onions in it. This process will take 5-7 minutes.
After this, place the celery in the pan and cook the filling for another 2 minutes.
At the next stage of preparation, add the minced meat to the vegetables and mix all the ingredients thoroughly. Prepare the filling for about 7 minutes.
Next, add the tomato paste and broth into the pan and continue cooking the ingredients until the liquid has completely evaporated. If desired, you can add salt and season the filling at this stage.
While the filling is cooking, prepare the pan in which you will bake the dish. The form must be high enough.
So, to assemble this delicious pie, place the prepared filling on the bottom of the pan and distribute it evenly.
Next, we send the prepared potatoes for the filling, and also level them over the entire form.
The final layer will be cheese. Most often, Parmesan is used for this pie, since this product has a more pronounced taste, however, if you were unable to purchase this cheese, use regular hard cheese.
Place the dish in an oven preheated to 200°C and wait for about 40 minutes. Cooking time, of course, largely depends on your oven, so after half an hour, carefully monitor the cake so that it does not sit in the oven for too long.
Sprinkle the finished delicacy with fresh aromatic herbs.

IMPORTANT: If you want to cook a real shepherd's pie, then the meat you need to use is lamb or lamb. The fact is that the name of the pie, which in English sounds like “shepherd,” literally translates as sheep’s pie. It is based on this that in the homeland of this dish it is almost always prepared from such meat.

List of ingredients

Potatoes – 800 gr;
Chicken fillet – 800 gr;
Onion – 1 piece (not a huge one, but a medium one);
Carrots – 1 piece (large);
Classic yoghurt 2.8% – 200 g;
“Chechil” cheese (or other low-fat cheese) – 20-25 g;
Greens (dill and green onions) – 20 g;
Tomato – ½ piece;

For the sauce for the meat filling:

Soy sauce – 100 ml (including 50 ml for marinating chicken);
Tomato paste – 2 tbsp;
Black pepper – 1/3 tsp;
Khmeli-suneli seasoning – 1 tsp;
Classic yoghurt 2.8% – 100 g;
Salt (sea salt preferably) - to taste.

Shepherd's Pie with Vegetables

The dish prepared according to this recipe differs from the rest in that in addition to carrots and onions, it contains other vegetables. Thanks to this, the pie turns out healthy and tasty.

A delicious vegetable pie is prepared from the following ingredients:

Beef pulp – 350 g
Pork pulp – 250 g
Potatoes – 6 pcs.
Onion – 1.5 pcs.
Carrot – 1 pc.
Tomatoes – 1 pc.
Bell pepper – 1 pc.
Zucchini – 1 small piece.
Parsley, dill - 1 bunch each
Hot pepper - to taste
Butter – 55 g
Sunflower oil – 4.5 tbsp.
Homemade milk – 100 ml
Hard cheese – 120 g
Salt, ground nutmeg, Italian herbs - to your taste

Vegetable dish
We will prepare the delicious dish in this way:

We peel the potatoes, wash them and cook them like mashed potatoes. While the potatoes are cooking, we work on the other ingredients.
Wash the meat, dry it and pass it through a meat grinder. If you have a blender on your farm, you can use it.
Peel the onion and chop into small cubes.
Peel and chop the carrots using a grater.
Wash the tomato, then make a cross-shaped cut on its skin, so that later you can use it to peel the skin. Place the tomato in boiling water for 1 minute. and remove the skin. Chop the tomato into cubes.
Wash the bell pepper, cut out the core and cut the vegetable into strips.
Wash the zucchini and chop into small cubes.
Wash the greens, dry and chop.
Chop the hot pepper with a knife; it is recommended to wear gloves when handling it. If you are not a fan of spicy foods, you can omit this ingredient.
Grind the cheese using a grater.
Pour oil into a frying pan and add onion there, fry it for 3 minutes.
Next, add the carrots to the onions and continue cooking the ingredients for 3 minutes.
Now add pepper, tomato and zucchini to the vegetables. Fry the contents of the pan for about 10 minutes.
Then add minced meat, chili pepper and other spices with salt to the frying pan, mix the ingredients and simmer under a closed lid for at least 15 minutes.
At this time you need to make puree. Drain the water from the potatoes, add butter and milk to the pan, mash the potatoes.
Place the prepared vegetable and meat filling into a baking container and distribute it evenly.
Next, add potatoes to the filling, which we distribute in the same way.
Now sprinkle the dish with cheese and herbs.
Place the pan in a preheated oven for 20-25 minutes.

Shepherd's Pie with Chicken

As mentioned earlier, this dish is mainly prepared with lamb or ram meat, however, there are those who prefer chicken, which is more affordable and familiar to us. This pie turns out no less tasty; it can be prepared both as dinner and for lunch.

For the dish we need the following products:

Chicken pulp - half kg
Potatoes – 5 pcs.
Garlic – 3 cloves
Homemade milk – half a liter
Butter – 100 g
Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp.
Hard cheese – 120 g
Canned corn – 120 g
Frozen peas – 150 g
Flour – 2 tbsp.
Spices, salt - at your discretion

Chicken Shepherd's Pie
Next, follow these cooking instructions:

First, let's prepare the minced meat. To do this, the chicken pulp must be washed and dried, and then passed through a meat grinder. Poultry meat is quite soft, so if desired, you can simply chop it finely without turning it into minced meat.
Peel the garlic and grate it, do the same with the cheese.
Defrost the peas at room temperature.
We take the corn out of the jar, while draining the liquid we do not need.
Potatoes need to be peeled and washed. Next, boil it in slightly salted water. As soon as the potatoes are ready, mash them. To do this, add 150 ml of milk, garlic and 25 g of butter to it and crush it. The puree should be airy and tender.
The chopped meat or minced meat will need to be fried in a frying pan. To do this, pour oil into the container and put the minced meat there, fry the pulp for 10-12 minutes. over medium heat, remembering to stir it.
Now let's make the sauce. To do this, place the remaining butter in a clean frying pan; as soon as it melts, gradually begin to add sifted flour to the container, stirring constantly. Also carefully pour the remaining milk into these ingredients and mix the contents of the pan again. Season the sauce with spices and salt and cook for a couple more minutes. and remove from the stove.
Place peas and corn into the resulting sauce and mix the ingredients.
Now let's assemble the dish. Place the prepared meat and sauce into a deep container. Next, place the potatoes on top of these ingredients.
Sprinkle the pie with grated cheese.
Place the dish in the preheated oven for about half an hour.
If desired, the finished delicacy can be sprinkled with herbs or spices.

Shepherd's Pie with Rice

It must be said that the recipe for the traditional shepherd's pie has been modified many times, new ingredients have been added to the dish and old ones have been removed. According to this recipe, potatoes are replaced with rice, so the taste of the dish changes somewhat, but it definitely doesn’t get any worse. The dish turns out satisfying and very aromatic.

We will need the following products:

Beef pulp – 200 g
Chicken pulp – 250 g
Round rice – 100 g
Carrots, onions - 1 pc.
Vegetable oil – 3 tbsp.
Tomatoes – 1 pc.
Hard cheese – 150 g
Vegetable broth – 120 ml
Salt, pepper, curry, garlic - at your discretion

Rice Shepherd's Pie
To treat yourself and your family to this delicacy, follow these cooking instructions:

Rinse and dry the meat, grind using a meat grinder.
Rinse the rice several times. Then soak it for half an hour in clean water.
Grind the cheese on a grater.
Peel the vegetables and chop into cubes.
Also wash the tomato and chop into small pieces.
Pour the specified amount of oil into the frying pan and add chopped onions and carrots there. Fry vegetables over medium heat for 5 minutes.
Next, add the twisted meat, tomato and vegetable broth to the vegetables. Mix all ingredients and cook for about 10 minutes.
Next, season the contents of the pan with spices, salt and cook for a couple more minutes. Please note that we will also season the rice, so calculate the amount of spices correctly.
Drain the water from the rice, place it in a thick-bottomed pan and cook in salted water until tender.
When the rice is ready, drain and rinse. Season the rice with spices.
Place the resulting filling into a mold with high sides, and place rice on top of it.
Sprinkle the dish with cheese.
Place the treat in the oven and wait for about half an hour. The recommended cooking temperature is 200°C.
If desired, the finished dish can be sprinkled with chopped herbs.

Shepherd's Pie with Lentils

This recipe is quite interesting and unusual, since lentils can be seen in the list of required products. A dish prepared according to this recipe is not only tasty, but also healthy.

Prepare products according to the following list:

Potatoes – 6 pcs.
Lentils – 80 g
Homemade milk – 50 g
Homemade cream – 3 tbsp. l.
Onion, carrot - 1 pc.
Bell pepper – 1 pc.
Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp.
Tomato paste – 2 tbsp.
Hard cheese – 120 g
Pepper, salt, oregano - at your discretion

Lentil shepherd's pie
The dish is quite simple to prepare:

Peel the potatoes, wash them and boil them in salted water.
Lentils need to be sorted, removing all seeds unsuitable for cooking. Next, rinse the lentils with water and leave in the liquid for half an hour. After the specified time, drain the liquid, rinse the lentils again, add water, and cook. The standard proportions for cooking lentils are 1:2.
Peel and wash the onion and carrot, then chop into small cubes.
Wash the pepper, remove the core and cut into medium pieces.
Grind the cheese using a grater.
Pour the specified amount of vegetable oil into the frying pan and put the onion in it, cook for 3 minutes.
Next, add carrots and peppers to the onions and fry for another 5 minutes.
Now add the boiled lentils to the vegetables, mix all the ingredients, season with spices and salt and fry for a couple more minutes.
After this, add tomato paste to the container and simmer the contents of the frying pan for 3 minutes, then remove the container from the stove.
Mash the already boiled potatoes with the addition of milk and cream. The last ingredient will make the potatoes even creamier.
Place the lentil filling in a baking dish and distribute it evenly.
We add puree to the filling and distribute it in the same way.
Sprinkle the dish with cheese and place the pan in a preheated oven for 15-20 minutes.

Recipe 5: Gordon Ramsay's Shepherd's Pie

Shepherd's pie is a classic Gordon Ramsay recipe, as a tribute to the traditions of English cuisine. In our opinion, potato casserole with minced meat in the oven is a very juicy, aromatic and satisfying dish that is not a shame to serve on a festive table.

olive oil for frying
minced lamb - 1 kg
garlic - 2 cloves
onion - 1 pc.
leeks - 2 pcs.
Worcestershire sauce - 1-2 tbsp.
tomato paste - 1 tbsp.
red wine – 100 ml
chicken broth - 250 ml
rosemary - 2 sprigs
salt to taste
ground black pepper to taste
potatoes - 750 gr
butter - 50 g
green onions - 3 pcs
Cheddar cheese - 100 gr
milk - 50-100 ml

Heat a large frying pan over medium heat. Add minced meat at room temperature to it, fry it until brown, while the minced meat is still in the pan, a minute before the end, mix it with crushed garlic. Place in a separate container.

Without washing the pan after stuffing, fry the onion and leek for 5-7 minutes, until transparent, adding oil for frying. Add 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce. or to taste, mix and add tomato puree. Return the minced meat waiting for us to the frying pan with the onions and sauce, mix and add wine. We wait until the alcohol evaporates from the pan, then pour in the broth and bring to a boil. Reducing the heat to low, season with rosemary, salt and pepper to taste, leave to cook for 10-15 minutes, then turn off the heat.

Boil the peeled potatoes in salted water until tender, mash with a masher until pureed. In a separate container, mix 75% of all grated cheese, butter and chopped green onions. Season the mashed potatoes with the mixture. If you don’t like the consistency of the puree and it seems too dry, add warm milk. Place the spiced mince from the pan into the baking dish.

Spread mashed potatoes evenly over the minced meat. Decorate the top with the remaining grated cheese, salt and pepper a little.

Place the pie in a preheated oven at 180ºC and leave in it for 15-20 minutes, until the mashed potatoes are golden brown. In another baking dish or baking sheet, mix 200 g of peeled and chopped carrots with 200 g of peas, add butter, mint and cook in the same oven with the pie for 10-15 minutes at 180ºC.

Shepherd's Pie with Beef Liver

Liver is a very healthy and tasty product, so it is not at all surprising that housewives prepare shepherd’s pie with this product. The combination of tender, airy potatoes and juicy liver will give you an incredibly tasty and nutritious pie.

So, we need to take the following ingredients:

Liver – half kg
Potatoes – 6 pcs.
Onion – 2 pcs.
Carrot – 1 pc.
Cheese – 120 g
Milk – 50 ml
Heavy cream – 1 tbsp.
Tomato paste – 2 tbsp.
Sunflower oil – 3 tbsp.
Parsley – 1 bunch
Salt, pepper, paprika, garlic - at your discretion

Beef liver pie
Prepare the dish as follows:

Peel the potatoes, wash them and boil them in salted water. While it cooks, we work on other ingredients.
Wash the liver and dry it with disposable napkins. Then we remove all the veins from the liver, as well as the film. Cut the product into small pieces.

IMPORTANT: The purchased liver must be fresh, since this product is a kind of sponge, which, even during the life of the animal, absorbs all various infections, etc. The dark burgundy color of beef liver tells us that it is fresh and of high quality. Light-colored liver or liver with plaque indicates that the animal was sick and such a product cannot be used for cooking.

Onions and carrots need to be peeled and chopped into cubes.
Wash the parsley, dry it and chop it.
Grind the cheese using a grater.
Pour 1 tbsp into the pan. vegetable oil and fry the onion in it.
After 3 min. add carrots to the onions and cook the vegetables for another 3 minutes.
Now add tomato paste to the container and cook the contents of the pan for a couple of minutes.
Pour 2 tbsp into another clean frying pan. l. oil and fry the liver. The liver does not need to be fried, otherwise it will turn out dry and not tasty. Fry each side of the product for 2 minutes.
Now we will need the help of a blender or meat grinder, since we need to grind the fried liver and already cooked vegetables.
Add parsley, salt and all the spices and spices you like to the resulting mass, mix the filling.
By this time the potatoes will be ready. Drain the water and make a puree with the addition of milk and cream.
Place the aromatic liver filling in a baking dish and place mashed potatoes on top of it.
Sprinkle the pie with grated cheese and place it in the oven for about 15 minutes.

Classic Shepherd's Pie

British shepherds, herding sheep in the mountains, could easily afford to cook not only a piece of meat, but also a more complex dish. To do this, it was enough to have leftover meat, potatoes, cheese and spices.

The modern world wants a more refined dish, but based on a classic version of cooking. For Prince George and Princess Charlotte, this is the most desired dish. The recipe for the current shepherd's pie has changed somewhat. To prepare you will need ingredients:

minced lamb and potatoes 300 g each;
onions and carrots 1 pc.;
tomato sauce – 50 g, chicken egg – 1 pc.;
hard cheese – 50 g, sour cream for greasing – 1 tbsp. l.;
vegetable oil – 100 ml;
spicy herbs (thyme, basil, savory) – 1–2 g;
salt – 3–4 g, black pepper – 2 g.

The cooking technology is as follows:

Peeled potatoes are boiled in water with a small amount of salt. Cool slightly and mash until pureed. Add grated cheese and egg.
Onions and carrots are peeled and cut into small cubes. They are fried in vegetable oil until golden brown. Add minced meat and fry it too.
Add tomato sauce and spices to the meat and vegetables and simmer for 10–12 minutes. The baking dish is greased. Place meat and sauce on the bottom and mashed potatoes on top.
Level the surface and place in a hot oven. Baking temperature 160 ᵒC, time 12–15 minutes. 3-4 minutes before the end, grease the surface with sour cream. This will make the crust golden.

The method of placing the potatoes on the surface differs in the Irish shepherd's dish. There they make him smart. The puree is placed in a confectionery envelope with a nozzle and with its help a curly layout is made.

If we deviate a little from the classics, then minced lamb can be replaced with beef or pork. If you use minced chicken, then in this case it is better to use sour cream rather than tomato sauce.

Shepherd's Pie with Lamb

Lamb is considered a very valuable meat, since this product contains a huge amount of useful substances. Moreover, lamb is very tender and juicy meat.

To prepare shepherd's pie according to this recipe, we will need the following ingredients:

Lamb – 650 g
Onion – 2 pcs.
Carrots – 1 pc.
Tomato paste – 1.5 tbsp.
Red wine – 180 ml
Vegetable broth - half a liter
Potatoes – 7 pcs.
Butter – 60 g
Hard cheese – 120 g
A mixture of fresh parsley, basil, rosemary - 4 tbsp.
Vegetable oil – 3 tbsp.
Worcestershire sauce – 1 tbsp.
Salt, pepper, curry, garlic, paprika - at your discretion

Lamb pie
We will prepare the dish as follows:

Peel the potatoes, wash them and boil them in salted water.
While the potatoes are cooking, let's start with the meat. Wash the pulp, dry it and pass it through a meat grinder.
Peel and chop the onions and carrots: onions into small cubes, carrots using a coarse grater.
We also grind the cheese using a grater.
Wash the greens, dry and chop.
Regarding Worcestershire sauce, the following must be said. This product is considered a traditional English seasoning, which is added to a variety of dishes. This delicious dish is made from 25 different ingredients, among which you can see anchovies, horseradish, celery, etc. It is precisely because the product consists of such a huge number of ingredients that it has a very rich taste. It is very difficult to replace this sauce with something else, so if you do not have such a dressing, prepare the dish according to the specified recipe, but without it.
So, pour oil into the pan and fry the vegetables in it for 5 minutes.
Next, add the prepared minced meat to the vegetables and cook the ingredients for another 10 minutes.
After this, pour wine, broth, sauce into the container, add tomato paste and season the resulting mixture with spices, herbs and salt. Cook until the liquid has completely evaporated.
Make mashed potatoes from boiled potatoes. Add oil to the potatoes and mash them, if necessary, seasoning them with the necessary spices, salt, etc.
Now we put our filling into a baking dish and put the potatoes on it. Sprinkle the dish with cheese; if possible, it is recommended to use Parmesan; if you don’t have such cheese, use regular hard cheese.
Next, place the pie in a preheated oven and cook it there for about 15-20 minutes.

Quick master class: preparing shepherd's pie

Shepherd's pie is a traditional British dish, and it's not really a pie at all, but a hearty casserole with meat and potatoes. It is most often prepared during the cold season because it consists of very nutritious ingredients: minced lamb or minced meat, fried with onions, carrots and green peas, and mashed potatoes.

Initially, it was a dish of the poor and was called “cottage pie” from the English word cottage - a modest house of rural residents. This pie was made from leftover fried meat and a large amount of potatoes, which was the most affordable food product for poor people.

The term “shepherd's pie” finally took hold in the 20th century and is used to refer to a dish prepared specifically with lamb. The word shepherd means a shepherd who tends sheep. Previously, only minced meat was used in this dish, but now it is most often prepared with minced meat.

Shepherd's pie can be called an integral part of English life, so it is quite often found in popular British literature, for example in the series of books about Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter.

We invite you to prepare a delicious dish that Hogwarts students ate with pleasure!

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Ingredients for mashed potatoes: potatoes - 800 g, milk - 50 ml, butter - 1 tbsp. l., salt - to taste.

Ingredients for minced meat: minced lamb - 500 g, meat broth - 1 glass, carrots - 1 pc., onions - 1 pc., frozen green peas - 3 tbsp. l., celery - 2 stalks, rosemary - 1 tsp, Worcestershire sauce - 1 tbsp. l., paprika - 1 tsp., salt, pepper - to taste, flour - 2 tbsp. l., vegetable oil - for frying, fresh parsley - to taste.

Cooking method:

1. Peel the potatoes, cut into large slices and boil in salted water until tender.

2. Finely chop the onion, cut the carrots and celery into cubes.

3. Pour vegetable oil into the frying pan and add minced meat. Fry it, stirring, for about 3 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.

4. Add onions, carrots and celery. Fry for 5 minutes.

5. Add rosemary, paprika and Worcestershire sauce.

6. Mix broth and flour. Pour the broth into the meat.

7. Add the peas and fry over medium heat.

8. Drain the water from the boiled potatoes. Add butter and warm milk. Puree the potatoes.

9. Place the fried meat and vegetables in a baking dish.

10. Spread the puree on top in an even layer.

11. Bake in an oven preheated to 180°C for about 20 minutes.

12. Sprinkle the finished dish with paprika and fresh chopped parsley.

On a note

For a brighter aroma, you can add garlic to the minced meat.
Before baking, the pie is sometimes sprinkled with grated cheese to get a crispy crust. It is best to use cheddar cheese.
For a festive serving, the puree can be placed on the meat using a pastry bag and baked in portioned forms.

Shepherd's Pie with Corn and Spinach

This recipe is also very unusual, but that doesn’t make it any less tasty. This pie is suitable for both a festive table and a regular weekday dinner or lunch.

We will need the following products:

Potatoes – 7 pcs.
Pork pulp – 300 g
Chicken pulp – 300 g
Onion – 1.5 pcs.
Carrot – 1 pc.
Canned corn – 150 g
Spinach – 350 g
Butter – 50 g
Vegetable oil – 3 tbsp.
Homemade milk – 100 ml
Hard cheese – 120 g
Tomato paste – 2 tbsp.
Pepper, salt, basil, oregano, paprika - at your discretion

Pie with corn and spinach.
Prepare the dish as follows:

Peel the potatoes, wash them and boil them in salted water.
Wash the meat, dry it with paper towels and pass through a meat grinder. If desired, you can finely chop the chicken flesh with a knife, and grind the pork through a meat grinder, then mix the ingredients.
Peel the onion and chop into medium cubes.
Wash the carrots, peel and grate.
We also grind the cheese using a grater.
We open a can of corn and drain the liquid we don’t need from it.
Wash the spinach, dry and chop.
Pour oil into a frying pan and fry the onion in it.
Next, add carrots to the onions and cook the ingredients for another 3 minutes.
Now put the resulting minced meat into the container, mix the contents of the pan and fry for another 10 minutes.
Then add tomato paste, spinach and corn. Season the resulting mixture with salt and spices, simmer for 10 minutes, and then remove the frying pan from the stove.
Drain the water from the boiled potatoes, add butter and milk to the pan and make an airy puree. If necessary, season the potatoes with salt and spices.
We assemble our dish: we put our meat and vegetable filling on the bottom of the mold and distribute it. Place a layer of potatoes on it.
After this, sprinkle the entire dish with cheese and place in the oven for 20 minutes.

Recipe ingredients:

Topping

2 Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and cut into large pieces (about 340 g)

Filling

6 tbsp. l. unsalted butter
1 medium onion, chopped
2 tbsp. l. premium flour
3 large ripe tomatoes, cored and diced
1 tbsp. lightly salted chicken broth
1 grilled chicken (approx. 1 kg.)
1 package (280 g) frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeeze out excess water
1 tbsp. grated cheddar
1 large egg yolk

Shepherd's Pie with Mushrooms

Champignon pie is perfect for a holiday table. It must be said that the main ingredient of the dish will still be meat. Champignons can be replaced with any other mushrooms if desired. Using wild mushrooms will make the dish even more appetizing and aromatic.

For the pie we need:

Lamb pulp - half a kg
Champignons – 300 g
Potatoes – 4 pcs.
Onion, carrot – 1.5 pcs.
Vegetable broth – 150 ml
Homemade milk – 50 ml
Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp.
Butter – 50 g
Hard cheese – 150 g
Sifted flour - 2.5 tbsp.
Tomato paste – 3 tbsp.
Salt, pepper, basil, oregano, garlic - at your discretion

Mushroom shepherd's pie
Let's start preparing the pie:

We wash and dry the meat, then pass it through a meat grinder or grind it in a blender.
Peel and wash the potatoes. Boil it in salted water like puree.
We clean the mushrooms, wash them and chop them into slices.
We also wash and peel the vegetables, cut them into small cubes.
Grind the cheese using a grater.
Pour the specified amount of vegetable oil into the frying pan and fry the vegetables in it.
After 5-7 minutes. Add the minced meat to the vegetables, mix all the ingredients and cook for about 5 more minutes. over medium heat.
Next, pour the vegetable broth into the container and simmer the contents of the pan for half an hour.
After the specified time has passed, add champignons to the frying pan and season the resulting mass with spices and salt. Don't forget that our potatoes are also lightly salted. Cook the filling for another 10 minutes.
Now add tomato paste to the container and gradually add flour, constantly stirring all the ingredients. Simmer the filling for a couple of minutes. and remove from the stove.
The already prepared potatoes need to be mashed and mashed. To do this, add butter and milk to the potatoes. As a result, we will get airy puree.
Transfer the meat filling into a baking dish and place a layer of potatoes on top of it.
Add cheese as the last layer.
Place the pie in the oven, preheated to 180°C.
We wait approximately 25 minutes.

Shepherd's pie is a fairly popular and very tasty dish. Having tried it at least once, you will surely add its recipe to your cookbook.

With minced lamb

To prepare the pie you will need:

0.5 kg minced lamb
1 large onion
can of canned peas or corn
3 large potatoes
1 cup broth (can be replaced with boiled water)
3 tbsp. butter
a little milk for puree
2 tbsp. flour
salt, pepper, any of your favorite spices and seasonings

1. First, let's preheat the oven to 180 degrees.

2. Peel the potatoes, cut into quarters, place in a saucepan, add water and put on fire. Bring the potatoes to a boil over medium heat, add salt and cook until tender over low heat for about 15-20 minutes.

3. While the potatoes are boiling, you need to peel the onion and chop it, but not very finely. Then take a frying pan, pour a little oil and put it on low heat. Fry the onion for literally 1-1.5 minutes.

4. Add the minced meat to the onion and fry the minced meat for 5-8 minutes until it loses all pink color. Sprinkle flour on top of the minced meat and mix well.

5. Add corn or peas (to your taste) to the minced meat and pour in 1/2 cup of broth or boiled water. Simmer for 3-4 minutes, then remove the pan from the heat.

6. By this time the potatoes will be ready. Remove the pan from the heat, drain the water. You need to mash the potatoes and to make them tasty, we put butter in the potatoes and add milk. The amount of milk depends on how thick you want the puree. We beat the potatoes with a blender and get a tasty and very airy puree.

Tip: you can add herbs to the puree and add a little salt, this will make it even more tasty.

7. Take a baking dish. Place stewed minced meat with vegetables on the bottom and level. Spread an even layer of puree on top. Place the pie in the oven for 25-30 minutes.

8. As a result, we get a magnificent pie with a delicious golden crust.