Recipe: Perfect Quick Beef Shepherd Pie

Quick Beef Shepherd Pie. Heat potatoes according to package directions. Add the onion, carrots, celery, mushrooms, garlic, half the salt, and oregano. Add oil to hot pan with beef or lamb.

Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Ground Beef Shepherd's Pie This hearty supper-in-one sent by Elaine Williams is ideal for small families. The Surrey, British Columbia cook uses ground beef, frozen veggies and canned gravy to hurry along the down-home dinner. You can have Quick Beef Shepherd Pie using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Quick Beef Shepherd Pie

1. You need 1 lb of 80/20 or higher Ground Beef.
2. It's 1/2 of large Zucchini.
3. You need 1/4 of medium onion, chopped.
4. It's 1 of what ever other veggies you have.
5. It's 1 of I used fresh corn.
6. You need 1 stalk of celery.
7. It's 1 tbsp of minced garlic.
8. Prepare 1 packages of instant potatoes /make your own.
9. It's of salt n pepper.
10. Prepare pinch of ground cumin & coriander.
11. It's 1 tsp of chili flakes.

In England, the birthplace of this hearty dish, shepherd's pie is most often made with a ground-lamb filling. In the States, people use ground beef, which is what we call for here. Beef Shepherd's Pie is a delicious and comforting meal that can be prepared quickly and your family will love it. I came up with this super easy shepherd's pie recipe because I have a lot of kids and not a lot of time so easy and fast are the way to go!

Quick Beef Shepherd Pie instructions

1. Chop all veggies to a small dice even in size then in a sauté pan with a Lil oil sear them til tender not fone all the way.I used brown butter with sage!.
2. Put into bottom of the Pyrex and in the same pan start your beef,cook til just done don't over cook.
3. While that's cooking get your water on for potatoes, when done set aside. Preheat oven to 350°F.
4. Layer your beef on top of the veggies then your potatoes on top of that.
5. Bake for 20 min or till it begins to bubble..let sit for a few minutes.

This is a quick, and easy American twist on the traditional Irish shepherd's pie. Traditionally, shepherd's pie is made with lamb (hence the name). However, as the dish gained wider popularity outside of its native English homeland (where using beef would make this a cottage pie), beef became a common substitute, especially in America where it's more widely available than ground lamb. A rich, well-seasoned, nicely browned shepherd's pie is one of the world's great comfort food dishes. It's a simple meat stew, spread in a shallow baking dish, covered with mashed potatoes and baked until the whole thing is hot and bubbly, the top golden, crispy around the edges.