Recipie For Shepherds/cottage Pie.....urgent Please Help!!!

LearningToSave.

Is Anyone Out There?????????
I Want To Suprise Hubby By Having Tea Ready For Him When He Gets Home From Work At 5.30......he Normally Does All The Cooking!!!
Does Anyone Have A Recipie For Shepherds Or Cottage Pie?? And I Mean Idiot Proof Step By Step.....i Am Useless!!!!
I Have Minced Beef,potatoes,garlic,onions,worcester Sauce,peppers,carrots,tinned Chopped Toms........erm Think Thats It...usual Storecupboard Items Too.
Thanks.
Claire X

elona

It is dead simple - honest!

First peel and chop potatoes into chunks - put into saucepan of salted water and cook on hob for about 25 mins till soft. Drain them and then use a masher or a fork to mash them.

While potatoes are cooking - get another pan and put a little oil in it and then the mince - chopped up onion and chopped up garlic - tin chopped tomatoes if you like them or else stock cube- let it cook for about the same time as potatoes - stirring constantly.

Put mince mixture in bottom of oven proof dish and then add mashed potatoes on top ( you can make it creamier by adding milk) add grated cheese on top if you both like it.


Put dish in fridge once it has cooled and about 40 mins before you want to eat put dish in oven at approx180

Js_Other_Half

This recipe seems fairly simple:-
http://www.letscook.co.uk/shepherdspie.html
Actually reading it, I think it might be a little too fussy for you...you don't need beef stock - you can always use stock cubes. Other than that it does seem OK (you can use dried herbs)

Delia has one too:-
http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/r_0000001809.asp
you can just use potato for the topping, not leeks.

Here's one from Antony Worral Thomson
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/shepherdspie_2077.shtml

Have a look through the recipes and pick one you feel happiest with. You'll do fine - honest!

Js_Other_Half

I see Elona actually cooks it - I just look up the recipes! lol

LearningToSave.

thankyou!!!!!!!!!
what about if i make it right before Eating?? same amount of cooking time??
thanks again.sorry to be so useless!!!
claire x

Spendless

All i'd do different to elona is brown the mince first (cook the mince till it starts turning brown then drain off excess fat- some mince is fatty) before returning to pan with the other ingrediants.

hilstep2000

When I make mine, I always cook carrots and swede together, the mash them up and spread over the meat, under the potatoes, meat and three veg!

Quackers

hilstep2000 wrote:

When I make mine, I always cook carrots and swede together, the mash them up and spread over the meat, under the potatoes, meat and three veg!

oooooooo, I really like the sound of that

Would have to be a veggie version for me though

elona

Quackers

I sometimes make this with quorn mince, grated carrot and tomatoes, garlic etc.

Mash with swede or turnip or carrot mixed with potatoes.

I was trying to make my original suggestion as straightforward as possible so person did not get flustered!

Plasticman

After reading this thread I'm getting hungry! The're probably eating it now..... I wonder how it tastes

vanoonoo

Quackers wrote:

oooooooo, I really like the sound of that

Would have to be a veggie version for me though

sounds good doesnt it - yum!