Sunday, December 26, 2010

Shepherd's Pie

This is 1 of the dish on Christmas menu. I been wanting to bake a special shepherd's pie for this special day. Oh well, special not in a way of its' shape but unique in the ingredients. Original recipe calls for ground beef and Worcestershire sauce. However, i replaced the meat with minced pork and as for the seasoning, i mixed my own.
Result turns out to be PERFECT!!!

Ingredients for potato layer;
2 medium potato, steamed and mashed
3/4 tbsp butter
Pinch of salt
2 tbsp milk
Oilve oil

Ingredients for meat layer;
200g minced pork
2 baby carrot, diced
1 celery stick, diced
1 large onion, diced
1 clove garlic, minced
Pinch of salt
Dashes of ground white pepper
Pinch of black pepper
Stock / water
Oil for frying

Sauce;
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 1/2 tbsp tomato ketchup
1/2 tsp home cooked chili paste with chili oil
1/2 tsp sugar
30ml water
1/2 tsp corn flour

Ingredients;
-Marinate minced pork with some salt, baking soda and oil for 30 mins b4 frying.
-Fry ingredients for meat layer till almost done, add some stock and simmer.
-Stir in sauce and continue to simmer till gravy thicken.
-Pour meat mixture onto a greased baking dish.
-Prepare potato layer by mixing all the ingredients together except olive oil.
-When it is done, lay spoonful by spoonful potato mixture carefully over meat layer.
-Use a fork to drawn some pattern on top layer.
-Drizzle some olive oil over.
-Bake in preheated oven till top is lightly browned.
-Enjoy!

Throughout dinner, Adam focused very much on the pie itself. And since it was so beautifully, he couldn't bear to destroy the overall look. In the end i was the 'destroyer' who scooped the pie with my spoon. Haha... Hey, inside looks yummy ya!

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