The Best Homemade Shepherd's Pie: Easy Simple Shepherd's Pie Recipe

Silly boy Jay is back with another video showing you how to make

shepherd

's pie. Oh, I love

shepherd

's pie. This is what you will need to do. You will need to get a frying pan and place it over high heat. The only thing we are going to add to the pan is two pounds of ground beef, we are going to stir it a little and while it is cooking what we are going to do is chop a small onion into very small pieces. chunks like that right there once our ground beef has browned we're going to add the chopped onions to the ground beef and look at all that juice the ground beef produces its own juice and oil so we don't need to add anything to the pan other than meat ground, so we're going to add the onions and add a big teaspoon of minced garlic.

Now, if you don't have minced garlic, you can use garlic powder, but fresh minced garlic gives it more flavor. You can actually taste the garlic a little bit more when you add the minced garlic instead of adding garlic powder and make sure you add a little bit of that juice to a little bit of that garlic juice. There we will add a Boyan with cubed meat flavor. just to bring out that beefy flavor now the beef flavored bullion cube has some sodium in it so we're not going to add a lot of salt because you're going to get a little bit of salt from the beef flavored bullion cube so one teaspoon of salt you feel like you need more salt then you can add more we're going to add a teaspoon of black pepper I'm going to add too much pepper because we're going to be adding the paprika and I don't want it to be too spicy but if you like yours that spicy you can add a lot of pepper , but a teaspoon of pepper, a teaspoon of paprika that will give it color and flavor, we will add approximately half a teaspoon. of thyme leaves you can use fresh thyme if you have it and we are going to add sauce w 2 teaspoons of sauce w and we are going to add ketchup just to balance all the flavors and we are going to add three to four tablespoons of tomato sauce it will give a good touch to all These seasonings and seasonings will result in some really good, flavorful beef for your shepherd's pie.

Look, let's let it cool a little bit, okay, mmm, it looks like this. Well, you will combine three large tablespoons of flour with two cups of water. This will be our thickening agent. We will create our flour and water mixture. This is what will thicken the juice inside the meat. turn it into sauce, okay, so here's our ground beef. You want it to brown a little bit, fry it a little bit, you don't want it to burn, but you want it to be a nice brown color to achieve that. The extra flavor is okay so we're going to brown it and look you can see it's really very tasty and it's well seasoned and mmm it looks absolutely delicious so we're going to add the mixture to the pan with ground beef and Now we're going to reduce the high to low or medium heat if we're just going to let this simmer, allow the ground beef to simmer until the juice thickens and turns into a nice sauce like the ground beef in our store.

You probably have a nice thick sauce, so 15 to 20 minutes later this is what it should look like, look at that sauce mmm, look at that sauce, all the seasonings and seasonings that we add will result in a really round flavor. Meat for your shepherd's pie. Ah, water, a county fountain. I'm not even going to do it. I'm not going to do it to myself. I can't even try to pronounce that word. I'm going to try to say it as in translating. but the word Shasha shire sauce along with the ketchup and the paprika and the minced garlic mmm really good combination of seasonings and seasonings they give you a really good flavor let's get a baking sheet and we're going to add our ground beef and our sauce into the empty pan look I love shepherd's pie mmm now at this point you can try it taste it and if you feel like you need more seasoning you can add more if you need more seasoning. and the seasonings that we put on the meat, you can add more at this point because you won't be able to season it any more after this, you will add 1 cup of peas and carrots, these are frozen peas and carrots.

Don't worry, they can freeze, we're going to cook this again, so don't worry if the peas and carrots freeze. Some people like to add corn and green beans. I don't like adding all those vegetables to my shepherd's pie. but you can, I know people who add corn, green beans, asparagus and any other vegetables you can think of, but I'm going to go the traditional route, I'm just going to add the carrots and peas and you want to soften it up and flatten the top this is the way I make my meatloaf, everyone knows I do everything a little different.

I don't know how other people make theirs. I don't know what that method is, but this is my method for making some. of the

best

, most delicious and flavorful shepherd's pie, brand that is okay, so you will need Idaho russet or Yukon Gold potatoes and you will use about 6 to 7 small or medium potatoes. Notice I said medium, that means it's between small. a medium and the reason I don't use a chef's knife is because I have a good meal, yes, I was traumatized as a child by a movie and since then I never liked knives and I cut a couple.

Sometimes using a really big knife with a small knife, I feel like I have more control, so you're going to cut the potatoes into small pieces like this and you want to make sure that the shapes of the potatoes are pretty even on the sides so that they cook evenly you're going to get a pot and you're going to place it over high heat and we're going to add all the diced potatoes to the pot and we're going to add water, make sure the water is cold and you're going to cover the potatoes with the word you guys watched my mashed potatoes video so you can follow that video although we're going to make this mashed potatoes a little bit different because we're adding this to the ground beef there's a shepherd's pipe we're doing this I'm going to do it a little bit different, okay, you're going to cover it with the top and let it simmer and 20 minutes later once it's fork tender.

You can easily put your fork through it, you want to cut the heat and what we're going to do is drain the water and I don't know, with a strainer, it's okay because, as you know, when you puree. potatoes the potatoes have to be dry as wet potatoes are likely to result in very sticky and unpleasant mashed potatoes so you want to make sure it's as dry as possible so what we're going to do is put them back in in the pot. Over high heat, we're going to steam off some of the remaining water that's in our potatoes to get them as dry as possible before adding any of the ingredients, make sure all of the ingredients that you add to the mashed potatoes are in the room. temperature or even warm like the butter and cream cheese that we are going to prepare to add and the milk, you want to make sure that all those ingredients are warm, you can't add them to the potatoes straight from the refrigerator. can't be great so we're going to mash our potatoes once you mash them and get the right consistency you're going to add the butter milk and cream cheese okay but make sure you mash them and you're going to add our butter you want add about 2 large tablespoons of room temperature butter, okay, and you're going to add 3 large tablespoons, 3 to 4 large tablespoons of Philadelphia cream cheese mmm, the cream cheese gives it a nice flavor, you know?

How I make my mashed potatoes, I always add cream cheese and you will add about 1/2 cup of milk. We want to make sure our potatoes are on the moister D side or the moister side because we're going to bake this. and we don't want them to be ready and rubbery and dry and flavorless, when we're done baking them, okay, so you're going to add a teaspoon of sugar, you're going to add about a teaspoon of black pepper, that's what we're going to do. To season our potatoes, we will season them with about a teaspoon of salt and we will also add some grated parmesan cheese, about 1/4 cup of grated parmesan cheese and we will add an egg yolk to the mashed potatoes just the yolk that will give it color and that will allow the potatoes to firm up a little bit later, that's your bacon, we want to put them on the baking sheet pretty loosely, but once it's done we want it to be thicker. side like a pie it's fine and if you don't add the egg the potato could actually be used so you don't want very loose potatoes for a shepherd's pie so you'll cover the meat with the potatoes and you'll want to get a fork and flatten them out, don't smooth them out with a spoon because you're going to get some meat and sauce on top and that's unpleasant.

If you want to look nice and pretty like this, we're going to add our paprika. and we're going to add a little bit of parsley flakes, okay, just to decorate it and give it a nice look, so add a little bit of paprika and parsley. He'll bake it at 400 degrees for 30 minutes until it looks like this ah ah look at that shepherd's pie look at that shepherd's pie look at the cream cheese on the side people see I'm turning orange it's got a little bit of color now ah that looks absolutely delicious like this What we're going to do is I'm going to cut a big piece of this shepherd's pie, this is how I cut mine like this in a big square and start at the ends.

I should never tell you guys who know your cutting board, you have to start at the end, okay? guys and we're going to plate our shepherd's pie like shepherd's pies. It was absolutely delicious and as you can see the potatoes are very tasty and colorful and that's because we added the cream cheese and made sure the potatoes were well seasoned. Make sure our ground beef is well seasoned and has lots of different flavors, this is it, please guys, try this

recipe

. I beg you to try the shepherd's pie

recipe

, it's absolutely delicious, okay, try it, look it looks beautiful, so that's it. the way Jay, the Philly boy, makes shepherd's pie.

I hope you enjoyed this recipe, it tastes absolutely delicious. You know, at one point I didn't particularly like shepherd's pie, but I decided to change it and make it myself one day when I did. I don't have anything else at home to do, she's not making ground beef and I have some vegetables and some potatoes. It creates some problems, let me try to add a little flavor too and see how it turns out if I do. my way and it turned out really good and I've been doing it this way ever since. Well, I hope you enjoy this recipe, Philly boy Jay showing you how to make meatloaf.