Sherperd's Pie

This Pie was made yesterday, 9th Feb 2012.  My children loves this pie.  The ground meat I used was mince pork, the original recipe uses beef or mutton. 

Shepherd's Pie is an English dish, traditionally made with lamb or mutton. Americans typically make Shepherd's Pie with beef. The English (and Australians and New Zealanders) call the beef dish a "cottage pie". Naming conventions aside, Shepherd's Pie is essentially a casserole, lined with cooked meat and vegetables, topped with mashed potatoes, and baked.  It's your choice to choose the vegetables and meat of your choice.

Shepherd's Pie Recipe

Prep time: 10 minutes

• Cook time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

• 300gm of minced meat (pork, beef or mutton), marinate it with salt, paper, soya sauce and corn startch
• 1 onion chopped
• 300gm vegetables - chopped carrots, corn, peas, celery, button mushroom
• 300gm potatoes (3 big ones)
• 200gm parmesan cheese
• 50gm butter
• 100ml cooking oil
• 3 teaspoon of BBQ sauce
• Salt, sugar, pepper, mixed herbs and other seasonings of choice

Method

1  Wash the potatoes, quatered it with skin and steam until soft (about 30 min). leave it to cool, and peel off the skin to mash it.

2 While the potatoes are cooking, start the preparation of  other ingredients.
3 In a large fying pan or wok, sauté onions in cooking oil until fragant, add in the minced meat, mushroom over medium heat (10 mins).   When the meat is cooked lightly, add in other vegetable ingredients over medium heat (10 mins).
4  Add in the BBQ sauce, 50gm of the parmesan cheese and seasoning ingredients stir fry over a very low heat and adjust the taste.
5 Mash potatoes in bowl with butter 50gm, season to taste.
6 Place fried ingredient in the baking dish. Distribute mashed potatoes on top. Rough up with a fork so that there are peaks that will brown nicely.  Spread the remaining of the parmesan cheese on top.
7 Cook in an oven over 180 degreee until bubbling and brown (about 15 minutes).   Use upper heat to do the cheese browing for 1-2 minutes.