Shepards Pie

[lil75]

Anyone got any tips on how to make a shepards pie really tasty...mine always seem to come out so bland!

[warpig3]

What, if anything, are you adding to your lamb mince?

[lil75]

onions and carrots, salt n pepper, and a bit of gravy thats it! lol

[whifffey]

Try a good splash of Worcester Sauce and Hot Tabasco, that'll liven it up!

[4getmenot]

cheese and mushrooms

[lynniepie]

I put a chilli in mine, some branston pickle and worcester sauce.

[Rollo]

Use proper chicken, beef or lamb stock.
Then, some of these:

Add some herbs. Rosemary or thyme and a bay leaf.

Add a couple of dashes of Worcester Sauce to your stock.

Add a dash of Mushroom Ketchup to the stock.

[warpig3]

OK, well I rarely use lamb mince, I am more a cottage pie person but to this I add (depending on how the mood takes me) tomato puree, or wooster sauce (cant remember the correct spelling), or bisto granules, or chillies or anything else i fancy. Not so sure these would work with lamb mince though. Perhaps you could try some garlic or rosemary which both go well with lamb.

Also, again this is for beef mince, the mince should be cooked long and slowly, not the 20-30 minutes as usually stated on recipes. A good 1hr 30 mins of cooking really brings out the flavour and makes the meat more tender. I imagine the same will apply to lamb mince.

You could also flavour the mash with something, perhaps finely sliced spring onions.

[amy.1981]

you should add vegy oxo and cross&blackwell browning to the mince, put cheese in ur mash too yum yum

[tigersam258]

similar to warpig i like to flavour the mash too so I add some coarse grain mustard.

[New Judge]

And most importantly, learn how to spell "shepherds�".

It takes its origin from the people that herd sheep.