Recipe: Delicious Shepherd's Pie for Christmas or a Party

Shepherd's Pie for Christmas or a Party. Cottage pie is the perfect holiday dish, especially for Christmas Day. Paula's shepherd pie recipe is so easy to make. You'll need onion, ground beef, tomato sauce, carrots, potatoes, sour cream and a box of cornbread mix.

Place in a medium saucepan and cover with cold water. Set over high heat, cover and bring to a boil. You'll love the convenience of this easy, comforting shepherd's pie from Martha Stewart. You can cook Shepherd's Pie for Christmas or a Party using 11 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Shepherd's Pie for Christmas or a Party

1. It's 3 of Potatoes.
2. It's 3 cm of Carrot.
3. It's 1 of Green pepper.
4. You need 1/2 of Onion.
5. You need 200 grams of Ground pork (or beef, or a mixture of pork and beef).
6. You need 1 tbsp of Vegetable oil (for sautéing).
7. You need 1 dash of Salt and pepper.
8. It's 2 of squares Beef stew roux (store-bought).
9. It's 2 tbsp of Water.
10. Prepare 2 tbsp of Margarine or butter.
11. It's 100 ml of Milk.

Unlike other shepherd's pie recipes, this one calls for frozen vegetables instead of fresh and can be made the day before. A really good Shepherd's Pie should always start with a soffrito - that is, onion, garlic, carrots and celery sautéed on a lowish heat until sweet. It's the secret to a great flavour base that's a technique used widely by many cuisines, such as Italian cooking (for example, this Italian Shredded Beef Ragu). After this, we cook the ground / mince meat.

Shepherd's Pie for Christmas or a Party instructions

1. Mince the onion, carrot, and green pepper. Heat some vegetable oil in a skillet and sauté the onion, ground meat, carrots, and green pepper in that order. Season it with salt and pepper..
2. Finely chop the beef stew roux..
3. Once the ingredients from Step 1 are cooked, add 2 tablespoons of water and the stew roux from Step 2, then sauté until the roux is dissolved..
4. Peel the potatoes, roughly chop them up and boil until tender. Drain the potatoes, put them back in the pot, and cook off the excess water. Mash them with a potato masher..
5. Add and mix the butter into the potatoes from Step 4..
6. Pour the milk into the potatoes from Step 5 and mix until smooth..
7. In a heat-proof container, add a half portion of the meat mixture from Step 3. Add a half portion of the mashed potatoes on top and spread it over the meat..
8. Repeat the Step 7 procedure by adding another layer of meat, and then another layer of mashed potatoes on top. Use the back of a fork to draw lines on the surface..
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10. Bake it in the oven at 200℃ (392 F) for 35-40 minutes until the top is browned. (Alternatively, it should take about 15-20 minutes at 250℃ or 482°F..
11. This dish is delicious fresh out of the oven. Once it gets cold, you can microwave it and it will be delicious. It is good in a lunch box, too..
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Shepherd's pie is a quintessential homey dish that is delicious anytime time of year but is particularly good on a cool fall or winter night. Ground lamb, or beef, cooked with onions and maybe some peas or carrots and drenched in a rich gravy. Then topped with a thick layer of creamy mashed potatoes and maybe a good covering of shredded cheese. The potatoes look like a little party hat! WHat a great idea to make it into a bite!