Recipe of Ultimate Baked Shepherd's Pie

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, baked shepherd's pie. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Baked Shepherd's Pie is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Baked Shepherd's Pie is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have baked shepherd's pie using 11 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Baked Shepherd's Pie:

1. Make ready 500 grams Potatoes
2. Make ready 150 grams Ground beef and pork mix
3. Prepare 1/2 medium sized Onion
4. Take 70 ml Milk
5. Take 30 grams Easy melting cheese
6. Make ready 1/4 tsp salt
7. Take 1/2 tsp Soy sauce
8. Make ready 1 dash Pepper
9. Take 1 dash Nutmeg
10. Take 1 Salt and pepper (For the mashed potatoes)
11. Make ready 1 Whisked eggs (This helps to brown the recipe more easily; optional)

Instructions to make Baked Shepherd's Pie:

1. Peel the potatoes, cut into fourths, and boil.
2. Finely chop the onions, and sauté in a pan coated with vegetable oil (not listed, about 1 teaspoon) until they become transparent.
3. Add the ground meat, cook until it changes color, add salt, soy sauce, pepper, and nutmeg and sauté some more.
4. Once the potatoes are cooked through, drain, season with salt and pepper, and mash.
5. Once they are pretty well mashed, add milk and mix thoroughly (Adjust the firmness to your liking with milk). Taste, and add more salt if needed.
6. Put half of the mashed potatoes into a casserole dish, and spread it out evenly.
7. Add all of the ground meat from step 3, and top with cheese.
8. Divide the remaining mashed potatoes into 3 equal portions and scatter on top.
9. Press it out evenly with plastic wrap.
10. Coat it with whisked egg; use a fork to make a pattern, and cook at 480°F/250°C for 15 minutes, and then at 570°F/300°C for another 5-6 minutes.
11. You are done once it turns golden brown!
12. *If you are having trouble getting it to turn golden brown, I have a little trick… Mix 1 teaspoon of Mirin in with the whisked eggs and coat, and it will turn golden brown easily.
13. **If you don't have Mirin, then bake at 570°F/300°C from the start until it browns, and then reduce the heat.

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