Recipe: Yummy Quick Shepherd's Pie

Quick Shepherd's Pie. Want To Learn How To Make Delicious Pies? Shepherd's Pie is great with leftover homemade mashed potatoes, but it's tasty with ready-made mashed potatoes from the grocery store, too —Jennifer Early, East Lansing, Michigan Quick Shepherd's Pie Recipe photo by Taste of Home Next Recipe. This quick easy Shepherds Pie recipe is one of my favorite easy one pot recipes.

This is a quick, and easy American twist on the traditional Irish shepherd's pie. In this simple shepherd's pie recipe, we call for flavorful lean ground lamb, which isn't always easy to find. You can use lean ground beef or turkey instead. You can have Quick Shepherd's Pie using 11 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Quick Shepherd's Pie

1. It's 3 of Potatoes (big).
2. Prepare 500 grams of Chicken Breasts.
3. You need 100 grams of Peas.
4. Prepare 2 of Tomatoes (medium).
5. Prepare 3 of sliced cheese.
6. It's of Salt.
7. It's of Red Chilli Powder.
8. It's 6 of Garlic Cloves (diced).
9. Prepare 2 tsp of Olive Oil.
10. It's 6 of Pepper Cloves (diced).
11. Prepare 50 of Butter.

This is a quick and easy casserole I made up. It's great for people on the go. Gather the family round with this quick and easy shepherd's pie recipe. The meat mixture can be made ahead and frozen.

Quick Shepherd's Pie step by step

1. Boil potatoes (put a pinch of salt in the water while boiling).
2. Boil and shred the chicken (add a little salt).
3. Boil peas.
4. Chop tomatoes.
5. Add olive oil to a skillet.
6. Add tomatoes, salt (enough to make the tomatoes soft), peas..
7. Let the peas cook till medium soft, mash them a little and keep aside..
8. Marinate the boiled chicken in red chilli powder, salt, pepper powder, garlic paste. Put it in the fridge for as long as you want (I left it for 4 hours).
9. Mash the potatoes with some butter.
10. Grease the insides of a microwave safe bowl with butter.
11. Place the peas mixture at the bottom, layer it with the chicken marinade, top it off with the mashed potatoes. Then place the cheese slices..
12. Place the bowl in the microwave and use the baked potato setting to cook. If you don't have that setting don't worry, just cook it on convection for 5-7 minutes or u til the cheese starts to brown..

You can also substitute instant potatoes for the real thing if you're in a hurry. I especially love to use white cheddar in this recipe! Traditionally, shepherd's pie is made with lamb (hence the name). However, as the dish gained wider popularity outside of its native English homeland (where using beef would make this a cottage pie), beef became a common substitute, especially in America where it's more widely available than ground lamb. This is a recipe for Cottage Pie.