Baked Shepherd's Pie

Name: Baked Shepherd's Pie
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 500 grams Potatoes; 150 grams Ground beef and pork mix; 1/2 medium sized Onion; 70 ml Milk; 30 grams Easy melting cheese; 1/4 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp Soy sauce; 1 dash Pepper; 1 dash Nutmeg; 1 Salt and pepper (For the mashed potatoes); 1 Whisked eggs (This helps to brown the recipe more easily; optional)

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The meat juice is absorbed by the potatoes and it is delicious! My sons often request this. It is a variation of Shepherd's Pie simplified it in my own style, with ingredients readily available in my home.

You can bake it in a cocotte when making for one person♪. Cook it in a toaster oven. It bakes in 10 minutes at a high temperature, but it tends to over- brown, so cover it with aluminum foil if it looks like it is going to burn. Recipe by Umakappe

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Ingredients

3 servings

500 gramsPotatoes
150 gramsGround beef and pork mix
1/2 mediumsized Onion
70 mlMilk
30 gramsEasy melting cheese
1/4 tspsalt
1/2 tspSoy sauce
1 dashPepper
1 dashNutmeg
1Salt and pepper (For the mashed potatoes)
1Whisked eggs (This helps to brown the recipe more easily; optional)

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Steps

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.
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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.
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You are done once it turns golden brown!
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*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.
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**If you don't have Mirin, then bake at 570°F/300°C from the start until it browns, and then reduce the heat.