Wednesday, 5 August 2009

Shepherd's Pie

This Shepherd's Pie is nice and easy. It's basically a layer of seasoned, cooked, chicken with gravy and mashed potatoes on top. Once it is baked in the oven, the top gets nicely browned - comfort food at its best!

To make this version of Shepherd's Pie all you will need to know is how to:

Mash Potatoes
5 medium potatoes
1/2 cup of milk
4 tablespoon of butter
1 dash of salt and pepper
1 teaspoon dried rosemary

Put the washed potatoes in sauce pan and cover with water adding 1 teaspoon of salt. Cover the pot and bring to boil. Turn down to simmer for 20 minutes. Drain the potatoes and peel. Add milk, butter, dried rosemary, salt and pepper and start mashing until the potatoes are creamy and lump free.

Chicken with Gravy.
Prepare the vegetables, two medium carrot, 4 celery stalk and a medium yellow onion. Diced and place in a bowl. Cubed the chicken fillet and marinate with pepper and salt. Minced 2 cloves of garlic and 1 small onion. Assemble the rest of the ingredients: 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce, 1 cubed of chicken stock and one tablespoon of flour.
Heat the pan and fry the minced garlic and onion, chicken stock, oyster sauce. Add the marinate chicken follow by diced onion, carrot and celery and stir until the vegetables are coated. Lastly add the flour to the mixture, mix and cook for a couple of minutes.

Pour the chicken mixture to the baking pan and covered with mashed potatoes. Place the shepherd's pie into the oven for about 30 minutes until golden brown.


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