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[Anonymous No.8260789]

Any tips on making the greatest sheperd's pie?

I'm currently slow cooking a huge chuck piece with onion soup mix and some veggies. I'll be pulling it with a fork after 6h hours and putting it at the bottom. This will make for some very tasty meat.

I just need a way to make the corn and potato part as delicious. I thought I could put some grated cheese on top and put it on broil towards the end.

[Anonymous No.8260798]

>>8260789
Your doing it wrong and every part. Also it's not a shepherds pie unless it's lamb. If your using beef then call it by the proper. A cottage pie.

[Anonymous No.8260801]

>>8260798
is correct, and also lose the corn entirely. The trick to the potatoes is that they're whipped, not mashed, and give it a little butter spread over the top if you want to cheat at golden-brown ness.

[Anonymous No.8260815]

>>8260801
>>8260798

hacks

[Anonymous No.8260836]

The last time I made shepherd's pie, I used carrots, onions, Worcestershire sauce, tomato paste and lamb broth for the meat. It was pretty good.

[Anonymous No.8260987]

>>8260798
>>8260801
I'm trying to make the french canadian version of a sheperd's pie which is traditionally beef-corn-potatoes. It's ground beef usually but the chuk piece was cheaper.

[Anonymous No.8261180]

>>8260987
As a canadian I can attest to the fact that this is how they do it

[Anonymous No.8261833]

>>8260987
>French Canadian version

[Anonymous No.8261844]

>>8260987
This is the way I make it as a normal Canadian as well, very delicious

[Anonymous No.8261848]

>>8260987
Du pâté chinois mon négro!

[Anonymous No.8261860]

>>8260789
Pâté chinois/Sheperds Pie 101

https://www.ricardocuisine.com/en/univers-ricardo/chimie-alimentaire/450-pate-chinois-101
Put the website in english.

[Anonymous No.8261871]

>>8260798
That's a folk definition distinction based on assumption. Cottage pie and shepherd's pie are interchangeable.

[Anonymous No.8262426]

>>8260789
First thing to do is remove that fucking disgusting sweet corn. No shepherd's pie ever had that yellow shit in it.
Secondly, you are making a COTTAGE pie because it has beef in it. Shepherd's pie uses lamb.

[Anonymous No.8262429]

>>8261871
Wrong.
http://www.jamieoliver.com/news-and-features/features/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-shepherds-pie/

[Anonymous No.8262433]

>>8260789

Not correct. Shepherds pie is made with lamb. You are making cottage pie, which uses beef.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottage_pie

[Anonymous No.8262444]

>>8262429
>The term “cottage pie” predates “shepherd’s” by nearly a century, but each was used synonymously with the other for a long time.

Congratulations on blindly linking the first result google returned without even reading it.

[Anonymous No.8262495]

>>8262433
Incorrect.
>citing wikipedia as a credible source.

[Anonymous No.8262512]

>>8260815
They're correct you dopey twat

[Anonymous No.8262529]

Add some black pudding to that shit. Shit's delish. I also like to mix up my mash with either potato + parsnip or potato + sweet potato.

[Anonymous No.8262538]

>>8262495
>not citing anything

[Anonymous No.8263080]

>adding corn
What the fuck are you doing OP? That's not shepherd's pie.

Try this recipe instead: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/775643/cottage-pie

[Anonymous No.8264910]

Shepherd: someone who herds sheep.

Cowherd/cowboy: someone who herds cows.

Cottager: faggot who importunes men for gay sex in public toilets.

You're making cowherds pie.

[Anonymous No.8264957]

>>8263080
Agreed. Why the fuck are you not using peas?

[Anonymous No.8265052]

>>8260789
>Beef
>Soup mix

Wew.

[Anonymous No.8265085]

>>8262538
thats all wikipedia does so

[Anonymous No.8266848]

I like a green bell pepper in mine, also green peas, no corn

[Anonymous No.8266962]

>>8260789
Does anyone else call this chinese pie? I've heard it called shepherds pie, but I always figured thats what they called it in school to be politically correct. At home this was always chinese pie.

[Anonymous No.8267087]

1 lb. of lamb, seasoned to taste and seared in a skillet.
1 lb. of corn, preferably cut off the cob but frozen is hardly the worst thing.
2 lbs. of potatoes, boiled while the lamb browns then mashed per whatever recipe you prefer.

Put the whole thing in a 9x13 in the order of lamb, corn, potatoes, place a couple pads of unsalted butter along the top in small divets, and pop the whole thing in the oven until the top reaches a golden brown. Take it out, let it cool, and enjoy some shepard's pie.

[Anonymous No.8267098]

>>8266962
In Quebec, we call it "pâté chinois", which means Chinese pie. Anglophones here call it shepherd's pie, though.