Recipe: Delicious Baked Shepherd's Pie

Baked Shepherd's Pie.

You can cook Baked Shepherd's Pie using 11 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Baked Shepherd's Pie

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

Baked Shepherd's Pie instructions

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..