Shepherd's Pie

I woke up this morning with a rumbling tummy. After searching for the right and easy Shepherd's pie recipe, I settled for the ones from Michael Roux and Gordon Ramsay, and tweaking them a little and omitting some ingredients.

Serves 3 (each person 2 slices)

Ingredients:

Filling

Minced beef

1/2 onion - chopped finely

3 cloves garlic - chopped finely

1 carrot - chopped finely

1/4 cup frozen peas and corn

1 bay leaf - crushed

1 tbsp rosemary

4 tbsp tomato sauce

2 tsp Worcestershire sauce

Red wine (10ml but I think you can put more than that)

Ground pepper and salt to taste

Mash

3 medium sized potatoes

3 tbsp butter

10ml mill

Ground pepper and salt to taste

Method:

1. Boil the potatoes in a pot. Do add some salt into the water.

2. In a separate pan, brown the minced beef. I did not use any oil since there's oil from the beef itself.

3. Once beef is browned, remove and set aside.

4. Add some oil in the pan and put in the onions and carrots and fry until they're slightly brown.

5. Next, add in the garlic and keep frying for at least 1 minute. Then add in the green peas and corn.

6. Keep frying and then add in the minced beef. Fry for about 2 minutes, and add in the rosemary, tomato sauce, Worcestershire sauce and bay leaf.

7. Lastly, add in red wine, ground pepper and salt.

8. Give it a final stir and put the filling aside.

9. By now your potatoes should be soft. Remove from heat and peel of the skin.

10. Placed all the potatoes into a pot, add in the butter and milk and start mashing baby!

(At this step, you can start to preheat your oven to 180 C)

11. Once the potatoes are all mashed up, you can now transfer your filling into a baking dish.

12. Once the the baking dish is filled up, spread your mash on top of the filling.

13. Place the baking dish into the oven and bake for 30 minutes. I increased the temperature to 200 C for the final 10 minutes.

Some pictures:

The filling

It slipped my mind to take pictures of the mash, and the whole thing before it went into the oven.

The final result.. I think it looks nice..what do you think?

Our Shepherd's Pie

Can you resist a slice of Shepherd's Pie?