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Frugal Recipes Michelle's Meals on a Budget
Shepherd's Pie - 21 of Our Favorite Recipes! Recipe #1 - This is Our Family Recipe! While this is not a quick recipe to prepare and requires making a bit of a mess in the kitchen, it is pretty simple to make, very frugal, and absolutely delicious! It's also great for entertaining company and can easily be doubled using a 9x13 baking pan. Everyone always love my version of Shepherd's Pie (even our kids--who hate mushrooms), so I hope you will enjoy it too! Ingredients: 1 lb. ground chuck (or regular ground beef, ground turkey or
whatever's on sale) Directions: Brown ground chuck with chopped onions and drain, then set skillet aside while finishing the next steps. In three separate pots cook carrots, sauté mushrooms in a dab of butter and prepare mashed potatoes if not already done. Prepare gravy per package directions and add to ground beef, along with carrots and mushrooms. Cover and simmer on medium heat for a few minutes until thickened. Place beef mixture into a medium sized casserole dish and cover with mashed potatoes. Drag a fork over the top of potatoes and sprinkle with the amount of cheese desired. The more the better (just be sure to buy it on sale!) Place in 350-degree oven just long enough to melt the cheese. YUM!! * * * If you have a recipe for Shepherd's Pie you'd like to share with our readers, please contact us here... Shepherd's Pie Recipe #2 Ingredients: 1 lb. ground beef (cooked and drained) Directions: Mix the first three ingredients together, then mash 6 cooked potatoes (season as usual) and spread on top, then shred sharp cheddar cheese on top. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. ENJOY! * * * Shepherd's Pie Recipe #3 Danni's Shepherd's Pie Ingredients: 1-2 lb. ground beef The generic brands all work great. Directions: Brown the ground beef, drain, then add the soup. Keep on low heat for a few minutes, then add the veggies. I use a cast iron skillet so there is only one pan. Cover the beef and veggies with potatoes, then top with cheese. Bake in a 350-degree oven until cheese is melted. * * * Shepherd's Pie Recipe #4 & #5 Shepherd's Pie by Shirlee Brown 1 lb very lean hamburger with one large onion. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Add 1 can diced tomatoes (I use different flavors for variety.) Add 1 can green beans. Put in baking dish and top with mashed potatoes. Bake in 350-degree oven until it bubbles. Connie's Shepherd's Pie Brown 1 lb Hamburger with 1 large onion. Add 1
can cream corn. Put in baking dish , cover with mashed potatoes. Bake in
350-degree oven until it bubbles. * * * Shepherd's Pie - Recipe #6 I believe I was told my Shepherd's Pie is backwards. I use leftover mashed potatoes. I line a 1 1/2 qt. casserole with the mashed potatoes. I brown a pound of hamburger with onions and add green beans, just to heat them up. I then put the hamburger with the green beans into the mashed potatoes and put mashed potatoes on top if I have some extra and brown it in the oven at 350 degrees until warm, which is usually 30 minutes. * * * Shepherd's Pie - Recipe #7 I like to add a little garlic and shredded cabbage to the ground beef and onion. It gives it a great flavor. * * * Shepherd's Pie - Recipe #8 Ingredients: 1 pkg. ground beef or turkey Directions: Brown meat and mushrooms adding your favorite spices. Drain meat. In a bowl mix meat, soup mix, and can of soup together. Put in bottom of a casserole dish. Follow directions on box to make 4 servings of mashed potatoes. Top meat mixture with cheese (you choose the amount). Top cheese with mashed potatoes, then put more cheese on top of potatoes. Bake in a 350 oven for 30 minutes or until cheese is bubbly. This is so good! * * * Shepherd's Pie - Recipe #9 Ingredients: * * * Shepherd's Pie - Recipe #10 Just a tip for Shepherd's Pie lovers who don't like onions... replace the onions by sprinkling a package of dry onion soup mix over the ground meat layer. All the flavor but no onion texture for the non-onion lovers. * * * Shepherd's Pie - Recipe #11 We use 2 lbs ground beef (cooked), 2 cans of creamed corn and mashed potatoes for top and bottom. * * * Shepherd's Pie - Recipe #12 Here's my recipe for
Shepherd's Pie. Ingredients: 1 lb ground turkey Directions: Brown the turkey in a large skillet. Turn off the
heat. Drain if you want to, but I don't. Stir in the onion soup
mix. Fold in the green beans, corn, and carrots into the meat. In
a separate sauce pan, prepare 2 envelopes of the instant mashed potatoes
according to package directions. Dump the meat and vegetable mixture
into a casserole dish. Spread the mashed potatoes over the mixture,
covering everything. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Total
cost? About $4.00.
* * * Shepherd's Pie - Recipe #13 1 lb. browned ground beef Mix first three ingredients together and place in 8"square baking dish. Spread mashed potatoes over top, sprinkle with cheese. Bake
at 350 until heated through and top is crusty. Serves 4.
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Shepherd's Pie - Recipe #14 Ingredients: * * * Shepherd's Pie - Recipe #15 I come from England growing up in the 40s and 50s. The mixture was placed in a baking dish and covered with a good thick layer of mashed potato, and baked about 45 minutes at whatever the temperature happened to be in our cast iron oven. A vegetable in season was added.
I still make the same recipe but use purchased ground beef or chicken and add a dash of Worcestershire sauce and cook in a modern oven at about 400 degrees for 35 minutes.
Those were really frugal days.
* * * Shepherd's Pie - Recipe #16 Ingredients: * * * Shepherd's Pie - Recipe #17 I think I've found a super quick way to make shepherd's pie that has a lot of favor. 1 17-ounce Hormel pot roast (pre-cooked) Chop up the pot roast into bit size pieces and place into a small baking dish. Also, add all of the juices that were in the package. Next layer the
green beans on top of the meat. Spread the mashed potatoes over the top. Bake in a 350 degree oven for about 20 to 30 min. until it is bubbly on the
sides. If using cheese pull it out during the last few minutes of cooking and sprinkle the cheese on. Put the dish back in the oven to melt the
cheese.
* No need for extra spices because the pre-cooked roast has lots of favoring.
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Shepherd's Pie - Recipe #18 Ingredients: Hamburger Directions:
Add a small amount of oil to the bottom of a cast iron chicken fryer. Slice potatoes and onion. Layer alternately and season with salt and pepper and a little butter. Then add carrots and green beans. Season the hamburger and layer it on top of the vegetables. Put lid on top. Bake until the potatoes are done. Add the cheese to the top of the meat. Just melt it or put under the broiler and brown. The meat juices season the vegetables and the taste is out of sight. * * *
Shepherd's Pie - Recipe #19 My Mother-in-Law gave me this recipe and my kids L-O-V-E it!! Peel and cube potatoes and boil 'til done. Drain. Mash and mix potatoes your way. Meanwhile, brown ground beef, onion and seasonings on
skillet. Drain grease from mixture. Stir in tomato paste and water. Heat to a boil. Reduce heat to simmer for about 5 minutes. Cover with mashed potatoes and serve.
You can layer it a casserole dish and place in oven at 350 for about 10 min.,
if you like. I just serve it in the skillet. It saves clean up and time.
* * * Shepherd's Pie - Recipe #20 * * * Shepherd's Pie - Recipe #21 1 lb. ground beef 1. Brown ground beef in skillet. * * * According to Webster's Dictionary, this is the
correct spelling for Shepherd's Pie. It is also commonly misspelled as
Sheperd's Pie, Sheperd Pie, Shepard's Pie or Shepard Pie. A shepherd is a
person who herds and takes care of sheep (which I'm sure is where the
meal-in-one recipe originated from), and Shepard is the last name spelling of
Alan Shepard ( U.S. astronaut) and Sam Shepard ( U.S. playwright). After hearing from our readers we can plainly see that Shepherd's Pie is
a very popular dish! And one dear reader wrote in to say real Shepherd's
Pie is only made with lamb, and the dish made with any other meat is
called Cottage Pie. However, if it's okay with y'all, we'd still
like to call it Shepherd's Pie! :o) Order Our Frugal Recipes Cookbook! |
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