{"id":281,"date":"2010-06-15T03:20:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T10:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recipes.avsky.org\/?p=281"},"modified":"2016-11-21T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T01:54:00","slug":"shepherds-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes.avsky.org\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Shepherd&#8217;s Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a kid, I always thought this dish was called Shepherd&#8217;s Pie because it looked like a lamb &#8211; white and fluffy on the outside, full of meat on the inside.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong><br \/>\nINGREDIENTS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 tablespoon olive oil<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 brown onion, finely chopped<\/li>\n<li>1-2 carrots, peeled, finely chopped<\/li>\n<li>2 celery sticks, trimmed, finely chopped<\/li>\n<li>500g lamb mince<\/li>\n<li>2 tbsp plain flour<\/li>\n<li>500ml (2 cups) beef stock<\/li>\n<li>1 dried bay leaf<\/li>\n<li>1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce<\/li>\n<li>1 tbsp tomato paste<\/li>\n<li>Salt &amp; freshly ground black pepper<\/li>\n<li>4 (~200g each) desiree potatoes, peeled, chopped<\/li>\n<li>40g butter<\/li>\n<li>125ml (1\/2 cup) milk<\/li>\n<li>Melted butter, to brush<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nMETHOD:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Preheat oven to 200\u00c2\u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add onion, carrot and celery and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes or until soft.<\/li>\n<li>Add lamb mince and cook, stirring to break up any lumps, for 5 minutes or until lamb changes colour.<\/li>\n<li>Add the flour and cook, stirring until combined.<\/li>\n<li>Add stock, bay leaf, Worcestershire sauce and tomato paste. Bring to the boil.<\/li>\n<li>Reduce heat to low and cook, stirring occasionally, for 30 minutes or until sauce thickens.<\/li>\n<li>Taste and season with salt and pepper.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, cook potato in a saucepan of salted boiling water for 15 minutes or until tender.<\/li>\n<li>Drain and return to the pan with the butter. Use a potato masher or fork to mash until smooth.<\/li>\n<li>Add milk and use a wooden spoon to stir until combined.<\/li>\n<li>Taste and season with salt and pepper.<\/li>\n<li>Spoon lamb mixture into a 2L (8-cup) capacity ovenproof baking dish.<\/li>\n<li>Top with mashed potato and use a fork to spread over lamb mixture. Brush with butter.<\/li>\n<li>Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes or until mashed potato is golden brown.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a kid, I always thought this dish was called Shepherd&#8217;s Pie because it looked like a lamb &#8211; white and fluffy on the outside, full of meat on the inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.avsky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.avsky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.avsky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.avsky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.avsky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.avsky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.avsky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.avsky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.avsky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.avsky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}