Mains

Shepherd's pie

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Oven
200 °C200 °C (400 °F)

Ingredients

Meat filling

  • 1½ kg minced lamb3¼ lb minced lamb
  • 3 onions, large, chopped
  • 5 carrots, diced
  • 5 celery sticks, diced
  • 4 cloves garlic, chopped
  • 4 tbsp plain flour
  • 1 can tomato paste
  • 500 ml beef stock2 cups beef stock
  • 6–7 beef stock cubes
  • 80 ml Worcestershire sauce⅓ cup Worcestershire sauce
  • salt, if needed
  • 220 ml red wine1 cup red wine
  • 5 tsp thyme, dried
  • 4 tsp rosemary, dried
  • 3 tsp black pepper
  • peas, frozen

Mashed potato

  • potatoes
  • milk
  • butter
  • pepper
  • salt
  • a pinch of sugar
  • Cheddar or Parmesan cheese, grated

Method

Meat filling

  1. Brown the mince well in a large pan with the onions, carrots, celery and garlic. Stir in the flour and tomato paste and fry a little longer.
  2. Pour in the stock, red wine and Worcestershire sauce, crumble in the stock cubes and season with the thyme, rosemary and pepper. Add the frozen peas.
  3. Let it all simmer for about 20 minutes. Taste and add salt if needed.

Mashed potato

  1. Boil the potatoes, peel them and mash with milk and butter. Season with pepper, salt and a pinch of sugar.
  1. Put the meat filling into an ovenproof dish.
  2. Spread the mashed potato evenly over the top and sprinkle with the grated cheese.
  3. Bake at 200°C for about 30 minutes or a little longer, until golden on top.Bake at 400 °F for about 30 minutes or a little longer, until golden on top.

As she wrote it

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Sheppards pie.
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1.5kg. lambahakk - 3 stórir laukar 5 gulrætur - 5 selleystilkar 4 hvítlauksrif + 4 msk. hveiti og 1 dós Tómatpaste → steikja vel 500ml. Beef broth + 6-7 teningar beef 80 ml. Worsauce - (Salt ef þarf.) 420 ml Rauðvín - 5 tsk. Thyme 4 tsk. Rosemary - 3 tsk sv. pipar Frosnar baunir. Láta allt malla í ca. 20 min.
Kart. mús: Kartöflur - mjólk smjör - Pipar + salt (smá sykur) Cheddar eða parmesanost Rifin
Allt sett í eldfast mót. Kartöflumúsin jöfnuð yfir 200°c í ca. 30 min. +