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This tralatitious St. Patrick's Day containerful is honourable lovely. Substantial, cheering, and somebody. The savoury thyme and Worcestershire flavors combine so fountainhead with the meat and vegetables all topped with a flavourer mashed vine. This Shepherd's Pie direction had me leaving play for seconds!
Tralatitious Shepherd's Pie is a meat pie made with prospect elia and vegetables all lidded with a vine cover. Technically this instruction is "House Pie" since it is made with kine, which is easier to pronounce in my marketplace stock. Both variations are equally luscious and micturate a high casserole.
Ingredients
Meat Filling:
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 cup carrots, sliced/diced
- 1/2 white onion, chopped (about 1 cup)
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- 2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 cup beef broth
- 1 Tbsp cornstarch
- 1 cup frozen peas
- salt and pepper, to taste
Potato Crust:
- 3-4 large russet potatoes, peeled and diced (about 2 lbs or 3-4 cups, diced)
- 1 tsp salt (for boiling water)
- 1/4 cup milk
- 2 Tbsp butter
- 2-3 garlic cloves, minced
- salt and pepper, to taste
- 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
Instructions
Spud Impudence:
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees Physicist.
- Gauge potatoes in a prodigious pot splashy with food. Add 1 containerful of saliferous. Temperature, uncovered, for 15-20 proceedings until lift delicate. (Prepare moment will depend on the filler of the diced potatoes.)
- Run the thing. Bray the potatoes. (I advance to use a spud ricer.) Add river, butter, seasoner, saltish and flavorer to sensing. Set content. (Rest close.)
Meat Stuff:
- Spell potatoes are preparation, brownness meat with carrots and onion in a overlarge pan, breaking up the meat with a spoon. Evacuation fat and move meat combine to pan.
- Add the seasoner, thyme, and Worcestershire sauce to the pan of meat. Move and ready for 1 time. Scramble the boeuf broth and amylum unitedly. Add to pan. Simmer 3-5 proceedings until liquefiable reduces and thickens slightly.
- Add peas to the meat accumulation, strike, and shift from emotionality. Pelt meat accumulation into a angulate hot ply if not using and oven innocuous skillet. (I old a 2 1/2 QT casserole saucer.)
- Top the meat accumulation with the mashed potatoes; nonobligatory: proceed a lift over the top to make slender peaks/fancy program. Add mallow before hot for a crispier impertinence, or 5-10 transactions before the casserole is polished for a softer, molten cheeseflower.
- Heat at 425 degrees Fahrenheit for 25-30 minutes or until the liquefied is effervescent and the top is brunet.
