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Katie Piper's Shepherd's Pie

'My mum is an amazing cook. Her shepherd’s pie is legendary – the recipe was from an old cookbook but she’d adapted it'

'My mum is an amazing cook. Her shepherd’s pie is legendary – the recipe was from an old cookbook but she’d adapted it'

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Cooking Time

Cook: 1 Hour 15 Mins

Cooking Time

Serves: 6

Cooking Time

Price: 91p per serving

Nutritional Information

Each 441g serving contains

Energy
1460kj
348kcal
17%
Fat
10.1g
Med
14%
Saturates
5.3g
Med
27%
Sugars
10.6g
Med
12%
Salt
0.66g
Med
11%
2
of your 5-a-day
of your reference intake.
Typical energy values per 100g:
331kj/79kcal

Ingredients

2tsp olive oil

2 red onions, chopped

3 carrots, finely chopped

1 clove garlic, chopped

500g lean beef or lamb mince

1tsp Marmite

200ml hot stock made with 1 reduced-salt beef stock cube

400g can chopped tomatoes

1tsp tomato purée

¼tsp Worcestershire sauce

2 bay leaves

800g potatoes, peeled and chopped

25g unsalted butter

4tbsp semi-skimmed milk

40g Asda 30% Less Fat Mature Grated British Cheese

Method

1
Preheat the oven to 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4.
2
Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan and gently fry the onions and carrots for 10 mins. Add the garlic and the mince and cook until browned. Drain off any fat.
3
Stir the Marmite into the stock. Add to the mince mixture with the chopped tomatoes, tomato purée, Worcestershire sauce and bay leaves. Season with black pepper and simmer for 25 mins.
4
Meanwhile, bring a large pan of water to the boil and cook the potatoes for 20 mins, or until tender. Drain well.
5
Mash the potatoes mixing in the butter, milk and some black pepper.
6
Transfer the mince mixture to an ovenproof dish and top with the mash, then the cheese. Cook in the oven for 30 mins until the cheese is golden brown. Sprinkle with pepper to serve.