Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Cheater's Shepherd's Pie

Good recipe for shepherd's pie.  Cheats by using canned veggies and I even use instant mashed potatoes, but once it has baked for 40 minutes, is so yummy, hardly matters!

1 lb. hamburger
1 m-l onion
1.5 tbsp garlic paste or minced garlic
2 cups chopped carrots
1 can corn, drained
1 can peas, drained
1 can mushrooms, drained
1.5 cups chicken broth
2.5 tbsp ketchup
2 tbsp cornstarch
6 cups mashed potatoes
tarragon
salt and pepper to taste

Preheat oven to 375.  Brown hamburger in pan w/ garlic paste.  When almost brown through, add carrots and onion.  Cook and stir another 5 minutes so that carrots and onion are softened.  Add chicken broth, corn, peas, mushrooms and tarragon.  Reduce heat to medium.  Cook another 5 minutes.  Add ketchup and cornstarch.  Let sit 5 minutes.  Dump into casserole and spread potatoes on top.  Salt and pepper all over.  Bake 40 minutes.

Didn't have tarragon today, so I used rosemary, basil and a bit of oregano.  Still super yummy, and we'll easily get another dinner out of this!

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