Sheperd's Pie Recipe

Rubick

Anyone have a good, tried and true Sheperd's Pie recipe? I've gotten a request to make that dish for dinner one night, but I haven't made it before. Any suggestions would be appreciated! (as well as othe rside dishes that would compliment the meal).

BobCesca

Delia Smith's recipes always work for me.

EskimoDave

Most people call cottage pie shepard's pie. Cottage pie is beef. Shepard's is lamb.

Italax

The BBC website has a series of recipes, here are a couple of Shepherd's Pie recipe, there should be more if these don't appeal/aren't very good:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/shepherdspie_2077.shtml
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/9644/nofuss-shepherds-pie

Deadfall

I make a twist on the sheperd's pie (or I guess cottage pie.)

Hollow out and boil two bell peppers until tender. Cut up some sirloin like you were making stew (so like 1 inch cubes), cook until mostly done. Add a few spoons of tomato paste, some peas and carrots (frozen works fine), black pepper, some beef broth and simmer for about 10-20 minutes. Mix equal parts water and corn starch (about a tablespoon of each), pour into beef mix and simmer for another five. Add beef mix to peppers, top with mashed potatoes and cheese. I like parmesan and colby jack, but that's personal preference. Bake until potatoes and cheese are golden brown.

Sorry for the vagueness in measuring, but I usually just throw things together.

KalTorak

Here's Gordon Ramsay making Shepard's Pie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpFzc0OJPSc

Stabbity Style

That looks amazing.

shadydentist

An idiot could make a Shepherd's pie. Pretty much any mixture of ground meat, potatoes, worschester sauce, onions, pepper, corn, peas, whatever you want to add will turn out delicious.

Jordanthehutt

KalTorak wrote: »

Here's Gordon Ramsay making Shepard's Pie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpFzc0OJPSc

I have made this and it is a decent recipe.

http://www.channel4.com/food/recipes/chefs/gordon-ramsay/shepherds-pie-recipe_p_1.html

here are the exact measurements if youre in to that sort of thing.

It took me and my girlfriend working about an hour and a half I think start to finish. A little more labour intensive than he makes it look.

Also we found that it needed more tomato paste/worchestershire.

cmsamo

First, lemme correct some spellings here!

It's WORCESTERSHIRE sauce, not worchestershire or warchestershire or any other crazy way of spelling it. I live in the city (Worcester) where it's made, so I feel duty bound to correct the spellings... also, for future reference, we local folks pronounce it "wuster" not "warchester"

Now - back to Cottage Pie - As others have said you'll find recipes galore but a couple of important practical tips:

(1) Make sure the dish you are going to put it in to bake it is large enough for your meat and potato mix. More than once I've layered the dish and filled it too high, which means when you bake it the sauce bubbles out and over top, messing up the oven.

(2) Make sure you have enough mash to put a decent layer on top of the meat mix!

TheBana

cmsamo wrote: »

First, lemme correct some spellings here!

It's WORCESTERSHIRE sauce, not worchestershire or warchestershire or any other crazy way of spelling it. I live in the city (Worcester) where it's made, so I feel duty bound to correct the spellings... also, for future reference, we local folks pronounce it "wuster" not "warchester"

Now - back to Cottage Pie - As others have said you'll find recipes galore but a couple of important practical tips:

(1) Make sure the dish you are going to put it in to bake it is large enough for your meat and potato mix. More than once I've layered the dish and filled it too high, which means when you bake it the sauce bubbles out and over top, messing up the oven.

(2) Make sure you have enough mash to put a decent layer on top of the meat mix!

Go with Gordon's recipe and heed csamo's advice. Delia Smith needs to DIAF, her 'how to cheat at cooking' series is a joke.

Ending up with a bubbled-over mess isn't good and ruins presentation if you're putting it in the middle of the table and letting people dig in. If you're serving it up in the kitchen and taking individual portions to the table it isn't as big an issue.

Worcester sauce is also amazing on cheese on toast.

Good luck, but you won't need it, Shepard's Pie is one of the easiest dishes to make...ever.

KalTorak

cmsamo wrote: »

First, lemme correct some spellings here!

It's WORCESTERSHIRE sauce, not worchestershire or warchestershire or any other crazy way of spelling it. I live in the city (Worcester) where it's made, so I feel duty bound to correct the spellings... also, for future reference, we local folks pronounce it "wuster" not "warchester"

Maybe people would spell it correctly if you didn't add so many goddamn superfluous syllables.

Worcestershire

cmsamo

Haha

Actually, here, we do call it Worcester Sauce. I think most people in the UK know it as Worcester sauce.

It's only overseas it seems to be known by the full name of Worcestershire.