Amazing Arcadian Shepherd's Pie

The Amazing Arcadian Shepherd's Pie is one of the best shepherd's pie recipes around. With a savory beef mixture beneath a layer of creamy mashed potatoes and a Parmesan cheese crust, this impressive dish is a great way to reinvent ground beef!

Ingredients

1 1/2 pound ground beef
2 onions, minced
3 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon ketchup
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
salt and pepper, to taste
beef stock
2 eggs, separated
1/2 cup cream
1/2 cup butter
pinch garlic powder
10 potatoes, peeled, boiled, and mashed
grated Parmesan cheese

Instructions

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F.
Brown beef. Saute onions in 3 tablespoons butter until golden. Mix meat with onion, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper. Add a little beef stock and cook, covered, over low heat for 15-20 minutes.
Beat egg yolks until light and set aside. Beat whites until stiff and set aside.
Beat yolks, cream, 1/2 cup butter, and garlic powder into mashed potatoes. Gently fold in beaten egg whites.
Put meat mixture into casserole and top with potatoes. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and bake until puffed and browned.

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ReaderVictoria

Jan 17, 2012

Sounds pretty good except for one minor detail. A shepherd is one who takes care of sheep, not cattle! This should be correctly called a cottage pie, not a shepherd's pie. Only in America. LOL

cfish

Jan 16, 2012

Why oh why do you print a recipe that's called SHEPHERDS pie using ground beef Shepherds look after sheep The recipe you have above is for an English dish called Cottage pie If you take out the ground beef substitute with ground LAMB you then have the popular English dish called Shepherds pie Now we have found a reliable source of good organic lamb we have this at least once or twice a month You have not put the amount of beef stock in your recipe we use cup of stock lamb cup of red wine You can of course use cups of stcok if you don't drink but make sure if your going to use red wine that it is a 'drinkable' wine not that terrible concoction called 'Cooking wine' If you would not drink it then don't cook with it Also we have found that if you put the…Read More cheese topping on in the last mins of a min bake the top is a lot crispier the filling does not ooze out