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Gordon Ramsay’s Shepherd’s Pie

Gordon Ramsay's Shepherd’s Pie Recipe

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Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • The Filling
  • Olive Oil (2 Tbsp)
  • Ground Lamb or Ground Beef (about 1.5 lbs)
  • 1 Large Carrot (grated)
  • 1 Large Onion (grated)
  • Fresh Rosemary
  • Fresh Thyme
  • Minced Garlic (I used 4 cloves)
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Worcestershire Sauce (several splashes)
  • Tomato Puree or Paste (no greater than a small can)
  • Red Wine (several glugs)
  • Chicken Stock (unsure, nonetheless it looks like about 1/4 cup)
The Mash
  • Golden Potatoes (about 1.5 lbs)
  • Heavy Cream ( 1/4 cup)
  • Butter (3 1/2 Tbsp)
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Egg Yolks (2)
  • Parmesan Cheese (1/4 cup, minimum)

Method
 

  1. Prep Work for Shepherd’s Pie Recipe
  2. Dice the garlic
  3. Separate your herbs on the stems
  4. Separate your Egg Yolks
  5. Peel and Slice your potatoes into even pieces
  6. Open your wine if it’s not already
  7. Open your can of Tomato Paste
Cooking the Potatoes
  1. This part is straightforward as pie (no pun intended), just boil some water, throw some salt along with your potatoes in, and place a timer for a quarter-hour – begin your filling.
  2. Upon the timer going off, take your potatoes out and strain the river off. Put potatoes back into the pan, or to a medium mixing bowl.
  3. Mash the potatoes using their ingredients from above whilst warm (your filling needs to be about produced by this point)
Cooking the Filling
  1. Pour Olive Oil to a hot, rather large pan, adding meat. Stir meat as though your life will depend on it a couple of minutes so it’s nice and brown, and broken into small pieces.
  2. Add your Rosemary, Thyme, and Garlic, then stir even more. Quickly add your Carrot, and Onion, stir longer. The idea at here is to have everything to some minced consistency.
  3. Add Worcestershire Sauce, stir, add Tomato Puree, stir, add Red Wine and sweat down for any minute or two. Add chicken stock and cook for 3 more minutes.