shepherd pie

These few years I tried a recipe of so-called shepherd pie. Here is the recipe that I’ve taken from the internet:
Shepherd pie

Ingredients
• 2 pounds potatoes, such as russet, peeled and cubed
• 2 tablespoons sour cream or softened cream cheese
• 1 large egg yolk
• 1/2 cup cream, for a lighter version substitute vegetable or chicken broth
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, 1 turn of the pan
• 1 3/4 pounds ground beef or ground lamb
• 1 carrot, peeled and chopped
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1 cup beef stock or broth
• 2 teaspoons Worcestershire, eyeball it
• 1/2 cup frozen peas, a couple of handfuls
• 1 teaspoon sweet paprika
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves

Directions

Boil potatoes in salted water until tender, about 12 minutes. Drain potatoes and pour them into a bowl. Combine sour cream, egg yolk and cream. Add the cream mixture into potatoes and mash until potatoes are almost smooth.
While potatoes boil, preheat a large skillet over medium high heat. Add oil to hot pan with beef or lamb. Season meat with salt and pepper. Brown and crumble meat for 3 or 4 minutes. If you are using lamb and the pan is fatty, spoon away some of the drippings. Add chopped carrot and onion to the meat. Cook veggies with meat 5 minutes, stirring frequently. In a second small skillet over medium heat cook butter and flour together 2 minutes. Whisk in broth and Worcestershire sauce. Thicken gravy 1 minute. Add gravy to meat and vegetables. Stir in peas.
Preheat broiler to high. Fill a small rectangular casserole with meat and vegetable mixture. Spoon potatoes over meat evenly. Top potatoes with paprika and broil 6 to 8 inches from the heat until potatoes are evenly browned. Top casserole dish with chopped parsley and serve.

Here are what that I’ve did (some edition) to the recipe.
1) I put no cream what so ever that comes from an animal for the “2 tablespoon of cream or cream cheese” but I replace it with some santan. To be frank: where do you find cream that you’re only going to use 2 tablespoon?
2) As it doesn’t tell whether to use butter at room temperature or melted butter. Better to use melted butter, but remember to prepare everything early before attempting to start on the gravy... you could easily burn it.
3) I never will use peas.. I’ve change it with diced carrots and celery.
4) For the Worcestershire sauce, I use oyster sauce.
5) Don’t add to much water in your meat and gravy, it’ll make the pie soggy and harder to manage.
6) Add a lot of black pepper for better taste-but not until it is tasted like black pepper pie.
Good luck... and happy trying.

Versi bahasa Malaysia

Bahan2

• 2 lb kentang, dikupas dan didadu
• 2 sudu besar krim masam atau krim keju
• 1 bj telur kuning
• ½ cwn cream, atau untuk versi lebih ringan, gantikan dengan rebusan ayam
• Garam dan serbuk lada hitam segar
• 1 sudu besar minyak
• 1 ¾ lb daging kisar
• 1 lobak merah, didadu
• 1 bawang merah didadu
• 2 sudu besar mentega
• 2 sudu besar tepung
• 1 cwn air rebusan daging
• 2 sudu kecik sos Worcestershire
• ½ cwn kacang beku
• 1 sudu kecil paprika manis
• 2 sudu besar daun parsley, dicincang


Kaedah

Rebus kentang di dalm air bergaram. Toskan apabila sudah lembut. Dalam sebuah mangkuk gabung krim masam, telur kuning dan cream. Lenyekkan hingga hancur

Sedang kentang direbus, panaskan minyak di dalam kuali.
Masukan daging dan masak hingga perang. Jika ada lemak, anda bolehlah membuangnye sebelum ke arahan seterusnya. Tambah garam dan serbuk lada hitam. Masukkan lobak dan bawang. Masak untuk lebih kurang 5 minit.

Di dalam periuk lain, cairkan mentega dan masukkan tepung dan dimasak bersama. Masukkan air rebusan daging dan sos Worcestershire. Kacau sebentat hingga pekat. Masukkan kuah tepung ke dalam daging. Biar masak.

Panaskan oven ke suhu tinggi.

Tuang daging ke dalam bekas tahan bakar. Ratakan. Tuang kentang putar. Boleh dipaip kalau mahu.
Tabur paprika dan bakar selama 5 minit hingga perang. Hias dengan daun parsley



Apa yang saya tukar dari resepi:

1- Saya gantikan krim masam atau kerim keju ke santan.
2- Saya hanya guna 1 jenis air rebusan
3- Saya gantikan sos Worcestershire dengan sos tiram
4- Saya gantikan kacang pis ke seleri
5- Saya tidak gunakan paprika.
6- Sediakan bahan2 sebelum mula memasak, takut hangus
7- Kurangkan air agar lebih mudah diuruskan nanti
8- Bagi saya lebihkan lada hitam dalam daging memberi rasa yang lebih sedap.