Beef Shepherd’s Pie – Serves 2

Quick & easy recipe, giving you a complete meal. more recipes in sarah’s cookerebook see amazon.

Ingredients

• 2 medium to large potatoes, peeled and chopped
• a pinch of salt
• 200g minced beef
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 carrot, chopped
• 1 mug peas
• 1 tablespoon tomato puree
• 1 tablespoon beef or vegetable stock granules
• 1 tablespoon worcester sauce
• 1 tablespoon flour
• 1 tablespoon approx butter or low fat spread
• 2 tablespoons approx milk

Instructions

STEP 1:

Put the potatoes on to boil in salted water.

STEP 2:

heat a pan that can be used on a hotplate and under the grill.

STEP 3:

cook the meat with the onion, breaking the meat up with a wooden spoon, until the meat has browned.

STEP 4:

add the carrot, peas, tomato puree, stock granules and worcester sauce, stir to mix and add just enough water to keep the mixture in the pan liquid.

STEP 5:

put a lid on the pan and cook for 5 minutes approx.

STEP 6:

sprinkle the flour over the mixture in the pan and stir to combine. Continue to cook for about two minutes, stirring from time to time.

STEP 7:

gradually pour about half a mug of water from the potato pan into the meat mixture and stir carefully. The liquid will thicken to make a ‘gravy’.

STEP 8:

when the potatoes are cooked, mash with a little butter or low fat spread, and milk.

STEP 9:

spoon the mashed potato over the meat in the pan.

STEP 10:

while everything in the pan is still hot, put it under the grill to brown.