Can you call it a hit when your two little nieces and nephews are over and wolf it down? Along with your mother who generally only likes to eat out? I think so! Delicious! I added steamed baby carrots into the beef before baking and a can of corn between the beef and potatoes as suggested by Sherry and served with broccoli, peas, and artichoke & herb bread. Thank you for this recipe, it's now on my list of family favorites!

Fantastic - I too added the corn, I also added three slices of American Cheese to the mashed potatoes.... and a dash of mustard, then whipped them and put them on top.... came out golden brown and delicious!!!!! Thanks for the idea...

I made this tonight for my husband, and he cleaned his plate. I'm not sure, but I don't think I really needed the beef broth - I ended up straining the meat anyway because it seemed to have too much liquid in it to put in the baking dish. I added Worchestershire sauce and a clove of garlic, but followed the recipe otherwise. I may try adding more vegetables next time; it would be a great way to sneak them into my husband (he doesn't eat enough vegetables). I used Yukon Gold potatoes because of your Perfect Mashed Potatoes recipe, and boy those were good!

Lovely recipe, perfect for the meat and potatoes type of eaters. I love your recipes!

Gonna try it with ground turkey, follow the recipe, and add some garlic and savory spices (rosemary, thyme, sage, etc.) I like the idea of thickening the juices before baking, too. That sounds like a slammin' idea.

Should be gooood eatin!

Thicken juices? How would one go about doing that?

Any suggestions for a vegetarian version? We don't do that fake meat stuff. We do eat cheese though. My 9 year old son is a vegetarian but still very picky. Thanks!

Try sprinkling some cheese and breadcrumbs on the top for a crispy finish.

For a veggie version, I make a 'shepherds pie' with lentils. I saute onions and garlic in butter, add flour to make a roux, and then vegetable broth. When the broth thickens a bit, I add cooked lentils, corn, and whatever other veggies are around which need using--putting in salt, pepper and a lot of thyme to taste. From there it's the same as with the meat version--put in a baking dish, top with cheese and mashed potatos, bake till bubbly.

I agree with Randy, make sure you read the entire post before you nit pick. It only makes you look like a shepherd's ***.

But this recipe looks so good and easy and I love some of the variations that were suggested. I am going to try this one and probably work it in to rotation.

Also could this be made ahead, like the day before and do the baking of it before being serving? And would it freeze well?

To thicken the juices, mix 1/4 cup cold water (or cold milk) with 1-2 Tablespoons of corn starch or flour (more or less) and slowly add to the juices and bring to a simmer for 1 minute. You'll have a gravy then.

I've always made this from left-overs from the refrigerator. Everything's been cooked already, just layer in a pan and top with left-over mashed potatoes. It was a way to use up "must-go's" before they had to be thrown out. It's a good penny-saver recipe this way. Easter ham and mashed potatoes always wound up as this by Wednesday and it tasted even better than it did on Sunday.

This stuff was amazing. My boyfriend and I are starving students as most people know young college students by. He is the typical big boy lol and doesnt like to eat veggies. This was a QUICK, CHEAP, and DELICIOUS way to make him eat his veggies. Also, I go to school during the day while he works and then i work at night while he goes to school. I was able to make this in between my break from school and work, put it the frig and heat up later that night for just the same taste as when it first came out of the oven. Amazing! cant wait to see what else i can make frm this website. I also have a home made cook book for my children that i type the recipe up and put it in a binder. This will be added to my collection!

I made this tonight and it was absolutely wonderful. It was easy, quick, and very tasty. I used two pounds of ground beef, though, so I had to tinker with the seasonings. I also added a few tablespoons of flour before adding a cup of beef broth because I was afraid the beef mixture might be too liquid-y. Then, my mashed potatoes came out kind of. . . wonky, so I sprinkled some paprika over-top to make it look prettier. Next time I'll use a different sort of potato.

Anyway, I spent quite a bit of my afternoon reading through the main dish recipes and I'm going to look at the desserts tonight. Your website is wonderful and the recipes are tantalizing and seem very simple. I really appreciate all the work you've put into this. Thanks!

As a Brit and something of a perfectionist when it comes to shepherd's pie, it is traditional and, I think, essential to add a good two tablespoons of tomato concentrate paste and two sticks of chopped celery. Not traditional but adding wonderful flavour, I add the following: at the saute onion stage, for the quantities above, some mushrooms, whole if small. Usually with the onions, I chop part of them and puree the rest - the pureed onions thicken the sauce well, though I usually stir in some flour with the meat when browning it. I also add sweet pepper paste, at least 2 teaspoons of ground cumin, anchovy paste, mushroom ketchup. Quantities are not precise - it's not that sort of dish, just taste as you go along. Finally, the mash is very nice with a mixture of swede (can't remember what that's called stateside), parsnip and carrot, though it's best to cook them separately, otherwise you end up with disintegrating potatoes and swede that's insufficiently cooked to make a smooth mash.

Do try some or all of my suggestions - they have been arrived at by experimenting trying to improve the basic version given above.

I'm making this dish for Christmas, that it'd be appropriate because of the name. Also it's delicious. I first tried it from my cafeteria in college, I think they made the dish every Wednesday and I absolutely fell in love with it. I'm using a kernal corn layering on top of the beef and shredded cheddar cheese on top of the potatoes. I'm sure my family will fall in love with it too and want to make it a tradition.

Very delicious, very simple and very easy to make. My kind of dish! lol It was a hit with the whole family. Will definitely make this again.

I always add a cup or two of sour cream and a brick of cracker barrel sharp cheese to the mashed potatoes.Save some of the cheese for a sprinkle over the top.Also Au jou gravy is perfect for this because the meal is so hearty I think a lighter gravy is perfect.

Thanks so much for sharing this recipe. You always make your recipes so easy to follow. I adapted your recipe and made a vegetarian shepherd's pie using Yves Veggie Ground Round. It tasted great!

I stumbled across this blog looking for a recipe for Sheperds pie. I had never made it before so I wanted to check ingredients and method etc. I cooked it up and it looked beautiful. Having recently emmigrated to Sweden and having a Swedish husband he eyed it very dubiously (having seen the amount of veg I had added) But he loved it, we ate it THREE times that week. Nice to have some English comfort food away from home. Ill be using this site more often, Thanks!

My family usually makes this dish withouth the veggies and with american cheese on top. My MIL says its " not shepherds pie" but I'm convinced it is. =) Thanks for the recipe. Cant wait to try our family recipe the traditional way.

Great site! I remember making something similar when I was a child. We called it "hamburger pie".
Brown ground beef, drain.
Add one can of tomato soup, one can of corn and one can of peas (or frozen if you prefer).
Heat through.
Pour in casserole dish.
Spread mashed potatoes on top and sprinkle with shredded cheddar.
Bake til cheese melts and pie is heated through.
This was something quick and easy to make for a pre-teen.

My husband, son & contractor love this. I add garlic, cayenne, tumeric and beer.

This is one of my families favorite dishes and I'm always looking for variations! I can't wait to try out some of the suggestions left in the comments! Thanks for a wonderful resource!

The topping is also tasty as a mix of potato and sweet potato mash.
Sprinkle grated cheese over the potato for a Thatched Cottage Pie.
Lizzie

Lovely recipie. I'm only 12 and I can cook and your recipie worked. My teacher loved it. Grubalisious.

Excellent and very easy dish. My kids are very picky eaters and hate veggies and loved this! My mother-in-law even had nice things to say about it. hehehehehe ;p

I make another version of this recipe (which I obtained from a friend years ago), and when I make it, there are NEVER any leftovers. After browning ground beef and onion, layer the beef/onion mix in a baking dish, add 2 cans cream style corn for next layer, then top with a layer of mashed potatoes. (I add 1 egg to my potatoes, which makes it hold together better when serving). Sprinkle with paprika or chili powder and bake. A very easy version of shepherd's pie.(and very delicious)

My husband and I tried this last week and really enjoyed it. It is a great make ahead dish if you like to prep some of your meals for the week during the weekend. We went with the can of cream corn under the layer of potatoes and loved it!

I cooked the meat separate from the peas & carrots, drained off all the fat, added 1 cup broth, brought it up to a boil, then lower the heat to med, cook for about 5-7 mins, add about 1/2 cup broth, then make a flour paste (1 tsp flour & 1/4 cup cold water), make a well in the middle and stir it into the broth, mix well.
Comes out nice & creamy

Made this today with some modifications. I drained most of the fat from the pan as it seemed like it would cause the final dish to be too greasy. I added some ground cumin (1/8 tsp??) and a sprinkle of ground nutmeg, 2 Tblsp. of tomato paste to the meat mixture. Also spooned some cream-style corn on top of the meat mixture. Excellent flavors! Thanks!

I made shepherds pie for the first time and my boyfriend and all his friends thought it was the most amazing dish ever, they were practically licking their plates! Being from England and having had many shepherds pies in my time, this was by far the best shepherds pie I have ever tasted...thanks to you!

Made a vegan version of this last night based on your recipe and it was fantastic - used boca grounds for the meat, earth balance for the butter and soy milk in the potatoes. Oh, and added spinach with the veggies. Thanks!

Wow, excellent recipe, everyone loved it. I also put grated cheese on top, was fabulous!

I have always loved this recipe!I was just told recently that adding a small can of cream corn in between the meat and potatoes give a tasty gravy .I usually use a large can.Worth trying!!!

I use a very similar recipe, I add 1 teaspoon allspice and 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar along with onions, garlic, 1 1/2 pounds ground meat browned, tablespoon of flour to thicken, 1/2 cup beef broth, salt, pepper, 2 teaspoons Worchestershire sauce, then a can of peas and carrots. Put in a baking dish. Put the mashed potatoes on top, brush some melted butter on top, add some shredded cheese if you like and bake in a 400 degree oven for about 25 minutes. Just had some tonite for supper...a little HP sauce and a Guinness and you're all set! Some crusty bread would be nice too!

I started out with your recipe, and ended up with something totally different, but really yummy. (I bought what was on sale, and got rid of stuff I already had on hand)

Instead of beef, I used 1 lb ground turkey.
I used 1 tbsp soy sauce instead of Worcestershire sauce.
For spices, I added oregano, Spike, celery seed, a pinch of chili powder, and salt & pepper.
Instead of beef broth, I used chicken broth. Instead of regular mashed potatoes, I used brocolli and potatoes mashed together.
I added a layer of shredded farmer's cheese in between the meat mixture and the potato mixture.

To those who would prefer a vegetarian alternative, which would appeal to me as well, how about using a mixture of canned beans as the bottom layer? I am thinking if you used perhaps some kidneys, navies, and maybe cannellini beans (white kidneys) warmed and stirred up with the sauteed onion, some garlic and perhaps a little tomato sauce, with maybe some couscous or rice, that would give you the balance of protein you'd need to make this a main course. You'd forego the beef broth and Worchestershire, of course, perhaps replacing them with low salt soy sauce. Your veggie layer would go next, and then the potatoes on top.

Tonight I am going to try this using ground turkey, and my daughter suggested using sweet potatoes for the mash on the top. I think I will go for a swirl of both sweet and white potatoes. Thanks so much for all the other ideas on variations with the veggies and spices, all!

Thanks for a very solid and flexible presentation! I've always found that this dish will make week-old ground beef taste delicious, but your trick with the beef broth kept even my pound-and-a-half of slightly-past-its-prime ground chuck notably flavourful and juicy.

Shepherd's Pie requires different levels of effort throughout its preparation. Once the potatoes are boiling, you have twenty minutes or so of flexible time. Dicing the vegetable ingredients is five or so labour-intensive minutes but can be done anywhere in those twenty. The saute and browning procedure is only intermittently demanding and you can do other things like mashing potatoes, making salad, or pleading with children to wrap up their video-game session. The last half-hour of baking needs no more than a check every ten minutes or so to ensure matters don't get too brown atop, so greeting guests and preparing cocktails are possible. The dish is as good, if not better, if left to sit for up to half an hour after removal from the oven. For those who have other duties in and around the kitchen before mealtime, this can be a spectacular bonus.

I followed the recipe as given, with half a cup each of finely diced carrots, celery, and sweet onion. Used thrice the Worcestershire sauce (1Tbsp) with a big dash of all the standard seasonings (rosemary, thyme, marjoram, oregano, parsley, sage) and some spicy, smoky paprika. A cup's worth of frozen peas had languished in the freezer for too long; they rounded things out nicely in the simmer. Your beef broth tip made the eventual product much better than my numerous prior attempts. I used a very large saucepan, and the meat mixture wound up consuming a full cup of broth as it simmered; I recommend other cooks keep extra broth at hand when entering that ten-minute stage. If given a full half-hour to bake, extra moisture won't be a problem -- but dry filling can dessicate into an unappetising

Next time, I'll have to try thickening the 'juice' with some of the potato mash before baking. Bravo, Elise, for improving on an all-time favourite!

Thanks for the recipe! I used one large carrot and one cob of corn (what I had in fridge). I didn't have worcestershire sauce so I used Siracha Hot Sauce. Then I topped the mashed with freshly grated parmesan cheese! So So Good!

Hi Elise,
I live in Greece and made this last night for a change of pace. I did, however, make a few changes. I used Amber Ale instead of beef stock, added 4 small cloves of minced garlic, fresh parsley and rosemary from my garden with a tbsp of paprika and 2 heaped tbsps of flour to thicken the gravy. It's a winner, we scraped the plates clean! Thank you.

It is an awesome recipe. My husband and I don't eat beef, so I used ground chicken. It was easy to follow and it came out delicious despite my lil' modification! Thanks

I made this dish yesterday, and my boyfriend loved it. I added a light garden salad on the side with a touch of italian dressing, and it was very filling. One pan, with all the ingredents and voila! You can have them asking for more!

I absolutely LUV this recipe and some of these ideas are marvelous! Of course, I too, change a few things. I like to add a roll of pork sausage to the ground beef, add celery and garlic to the onion saute and top the mashed with lots of chedder cheese. After it's all done I use a little ketchup on my plate. You can vary all you want with this recipe! Oh yeah, I also add some greek seasoning (Cavender's) to the ground beef. Don't forget all the spices you can use with this!

I had some mix for Shepherds Pie, it was just the condiments, I think. I make my own soy milk and you get bean dregs when you do that. Very neutral stuff. I tossed the mix into a bowl with a pound of ground turkey and about a cup and 1/2 of the bean dregs. Stirred it and microwaved it for 10 minutes. While I was doing that I used that convection oven thingy with the heating lamps in it it and loaded that thing with all the vegies I could find and chop, I had carrots, leeks, onion, (I held off on the garlic because of my wife) bell pepper, squash that was it. When the microwave finished the meat I put everything into that convection pan and covered it with the biscuits from two jumbo cans of biscuits. Then I gave it the business in that convection deal. I cranked it up to 400 and just watched it until the biscuits were brown. The top biscuit was closer to the heat and it browned first, I worried it would burn but it didn't. As soon as all those biscuits which I tried to flatten were brown, it was done. Next time I will try the potatoes on top, maybe. This was so good..... You better get some help to eat this because otherwise you will hurt yourself trying to eat the whole thing.

I'm Italian born and grew up in England, now living in Italy.
I often cook english for my family, and thier favourites are among many, shepherds pie, cottage pie, cornish pasties,pork pie.
Italians often say that english cooking is no good; well when I invite friends over for lunch or dinner among the dishes I prepare there is always one english receipe, they finish thier plates wanting more and more asking for the receipe.
Wonderful blog, my favourite on the web.

Happy holidays
Teresa

Excellent! I used garlic mashed potatoes to give it an extra punch.

My Ex-wife from England used to do a version suited for breakfast with fried tin corned beef and a layer of baked beans between the mashed potato and the beef. On the top she would spread a layer of crush cheeze nips biscuits and shredded cheeze then bake till the top was brown. I had it after it was cooled in the refridgerator when you could cut it like a cake. I sure do miss the shepherds pie.

I am hoping to make this on Thursday for some friends... Is it possible to make it earlier in the day and freeze it or put it in the fridge to heat up later in the evening?

I make this amazing recipe with left overs. I use the left over roast beef and gravy for the first layer, frozen corn for the second layer, and then left over mashed potatoes for the top. I add about a cup of shredded cheddar cheese to the mashed potatoes. I serve this with a fresh veggies (my kids call it a veggie salad) Broccoli crowns, Cauliflower Florets, baby carrots and dip (dressing of choice)

Are these directions the same for an 8x8"dish? Because that's all I have.... :-(

Not sure. You might want to cut it down by a third. ~Elise

ok......all the versions sound delicious but I make mine different also. Some people may not like this version, but everyone I have made it for loves it. Of course, I am sure every version is just as good. I use tomato soup and tomato paste for my sauce. And I add cheddar cheese and sour cream to my potatoes. All this can come in the "Lite" version or fat free. It is just another way to try it. Bon Apetit!!!

I made this recipe last week. Per the suggestions above, I added 2 sticks of celery, and 2 tbsp of tomato paste. I added fresh thyme and stout in place of beef broth. In addition , I added leftover green beans with the corn and carrots.
I thickened the sauce with flour as suggested above for a gray. This was an excellent recipe.

This is one of my favorite dishes. It tastes good with ground beef, and beef, but i tastes absolutely amazing with lamb! This is a great dish for the whole family.

I made this and it was awesome. I just used stuff I already had in the house. I made it even simpler & easier: brown the ground beef and add a bag of frozen mixed veggies. Add cream of chicken soup for a thicker & creamier texture, and use instant mashed potatoes on top with shredded cheddar cheese for the final topping.

I used a package of onion soup in the ground beef instead of Worcestershire sauce and added a pinch of parsley plus half a bag of fresh frozen mixed veggies. In between the layer of meat and potatoes I added a cup of ricotta cheese. Ricotta is easier to spread at room temperature so I set it out before I browned the meat, then stirred it with a fork to make sure it was ready. I added mashed potatoes over the meat and sprinkled the potatoes with cheddar cheese. Not a bite left!

I used ground venison to make this. It was delicious.

I made this a few nights ago and it was so good! Instead of beef broth, I put in a can of rotel tomatoes! It gave it the liquid it needed but it totally bumped up the flavor!! :) Yumm! Thanks for sharing your recipes!

This is a great recipe. My teenage boys loved it and so did their friends! Thank you

I'm nearly 60 and English, and this is a dish I have known all my life. Cottage Pie is always beef (my mum used to say that the mashed potatoes represented a thatched roof) and she only ever added chopped onions and diced carrots to the meat with a little grated nutmeg before adding her stock. She sometimes put mashed swede (rutabaga) with the potatoes, it depended what was on hand. To make the top crispier, half way through the cooking in the oven she would put melted butter on with a pastry brush. I sometimes add grated cheddar cheese to the mash (never milk) and also a little red wine and tomato paste to the stock. Sliced potatoes on top are really good especially if the top layer goes crispy - yummy!

As a child, if the Sunday roast had been lamb, any leftover meat was minced with onion and mixed with any leftover vegetables and made into shepherds pie for Monday's supper, or without the gravy but with good seasoning added (even curry powder) put into pastry circles and folded in half and sealed around the edge to make cornish pasties (yet another way to use minced meats). My daughter doesn't like sliced onion in food, they have to be almost puréed so she uses garlic. Just decided, cottage pie tonight!

Monica,

For me, frozen potatoes tend to turn gritty. I find them unpalatable. I would recommend making the filling and freezing it for him and having him make the potatoes himself. I know my own husband would need three pages of details instructions in order to peel, chop, boil, and mash a few potatoes so good luck if yours is anything like mine!

Many good ideas and variations, I make this recipe once a year for my St. Pats day party. It gets inhaled.. my shortcut is to use the boxed instant potatoes! You can make them as thick or stiff in consistency as you need for the topping.

I thought what a better way to celebrate St Patrick's Day but with a bit of pub grub. And Shepherd's Pie is available in most pubs on the Emerald Isle. Tweeked the original recipie just a touch with half ground lamb & half ground beef. Also added a half cup of red Zinfandel to appeal to the 'snooty' plough man. Going to share it with my Irish neighbors. Ta.

I found this site after searching for an easy Sheperd's pie recipe. I liked this recipe for the simple fact it leaves so much room to play.

I had to double the recipe because I was cooking for a large family of 7 but it still turned out pretty good. Next time I'm going to use less butter and drain the beef before mixing in the vegetables. Mine turned out a bit too greasy for my liking but it still tasted great. My kid brother, who hates vegetables and almost any healthy food loved this meal! That alone makes it worth cooking again. There weren't any leftovers either. Everyone had seconds!

In a few weeks I'm going to make it again but with a few twists. I'm going to make sure it's less greasy and maybe have a gravy sauce or something similar.

This meal is a great way to use up leftovers. Whenever we cook roast and mashed potatoes for dinner, we always make extra to be turned into shepherd's pie the next day. Just shred the meat, add in whatever vegetables we had (usually peas)and enough gravy to make it moist and top with the potatoes. I usually sprinkle a little cheddar over the top too. Reruns can be fun!

I LOVE this dish but I make it quite differently. I don't layer anything, I combine the cooked ground beef (usually seasoned with garlic, seasoning salt, some onions... but without broth or gravy... gravy is optional after it is on personal plates), veggies (any and all kinds; drained if canned), mashed potatoes, and cheddar cheese all together and THEN put in the cassorole dish. I add a layer (thin or thick depending on what is left) of cheddar cheese on top and then bake at 350 for about 30 minutes.

Yummy with corn bread or even toast!

This ended up being a pretty awesome recipe.

For veggies I just used a bag of partially thawed mixed veggies (carrots, peas, corn, green beans, and lima beans) and sauteed them with the onion.

We had pot roast a few nights ago, and I used the leftover gravy for that and mixed it with the beef broth and a few splashes of worcestershire. It ended up a little thin first out of the oven, but thickened up nicely as it sat.

I also ended up adding a dollop of sour cream to the mashed potatoes--we try to keep our butter intake pretty low, so 1:1 ratio of butter and sour cream (2 Tbsp. each, but I just eyeballed it) keeps the creaminess and adds a nice little tartness.

I'm 12 years old and I love to cook! This recipe was the best I've made! I love making this recipe because I'm Irish and it really brings culture into the kitchen! Everyone in my family loves this too! It doesn't take long so I make it after school with my sister, for my mom so she can relax from a hard day at work! I also love this website and I'm always on it looking for new things to cook! The sweet and sour chicken recipe is great too. I am so glad to have found something my family and I love! Thank you whoever made this "Easy Shepard's Pie" recipe, and good luck to all other who make it!

Hello Mckenzie, I'm so glad you love to cook! I've passed on your comment to my friend Frances who gave me this Shepherd's Pie recipe. I'm sure she will be happy to know that you like cooking it too. ~Elise

I love it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love this recipe! We added a little latin flavor of our own. When cooking the beef, chopped up some fresh cilantro and added it, also did the adding of the corn. Yummy! When the ground beef is all done, I mixed in a couple of different cheeses, then after the baking, right as it browned, we topped it with the remainder of the cheeses. Talk about Delish! My kids were eating as if they never ate before. Thanks for the recipe.

Wow. This stuff is great, even though the layout for the recipe could use work. The first time I made this stuff I didn't pre-read, so I get all the way to the end and THEN read preheat the oven to 400 degrees, so I'm stuck waiting for the oven to preheat while all my ingredients are getting colder and colder.

But alas, my family LOVES this stuff. No matter how much I make, it's not enough for my family of four. I am practically at the point of tripling the recipe because it is almost ALWAYS gone on the first night. A family of four eating a 9x13x2 shepherd's pie in one night? And we're all relatively skinny? Wow. This must be one great dish! Just wish I could come up with more ways to spice it up a bit, add more fab and pizazz.

Well I'm an Aussie living in China at the moment and was greatful to find this recipe, as my husband misses His Aussie meals. Mum always made it when we were kids, but now i'm married and have a family of my own, I needed the extra detail about how exactly to cook it. I'm a 'throw-it-together-without-a-recipe-and-see-how-it-turns-out' type girl. I'm cooking for my extended family who are also living with us and want to impress with a simple but delicious meal. I have never called it 'cottage pie' though, always shepherd's pie. Hopefully all goes well in cooking it tonight? Let you know how it goes. Thankfully my mother in law has an oven at her apartment (as they don't use oven much over here)

This dish was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! One of the best things I have ever made and I was so proud to serve this to my company last night...no leftovers! Changed a few things..used 2 1/2 lbs of ground beef, whole onion (medium) and 2 cloves of garlic (sliced). The major difference was I added ALOT more Worstershire, I added 3 tsp. to start and then after the meat browned, I added atleast another 3 tsp, but I love that flavor. Once the meat was browned, then I addded 1 can diced carrots, 1 frozen bag of corn niblets and 1 frozen bag of peas, then I added the beef broth and let it simmer for 10 minutes. My Husband was so sad that there were no leftovers...it was that good! Do not hesitate to make this recipe....a new favorite for sure!! BTW--I made individual Shepherd's Pies using small aluminum casserole pans...great presention and then I served it with brown gravy (from a jar).

Just wanted to be the 3,214 person to praise this recipe!! I used a frozen bag'o'veggies and INSTANT garlic mashed potatoes and it will be hard to have enough leftovers for lunch tomorrow. Simple and delish! Thank you

My family loved this! I used carrots, white corn, peas, and mushrooms and made a little onion gravy for it. YUM!

I made this tonight but I switched out the white potatoes and used Sweet potatoes and my family loved it. You can make this like a Lasagna and layer the meat then the veggies and top it all off with the potatoes.

Hello!

This looks great but I am health-conscious and was wondering if I could saute the veggies in some olive oil instead and maybe use about 3tbsp of butter for the potatoes? What if I use 85% lean beef? I am concerned that these modifications may lead to a dry pie! Thank you for your help.

You should be okay with all of those ideas. The broth and the fact that the meat is covered by the potatoes will help keep the meat from drying out. ~Elise

I tried it with chuck steak cut into small pieces & it was SO GOOD!!

I was looking for a quick dinner using ground beef and found this. It was a hit! Only had carrots and onions on hand, sauteed in a little garlic olive oil, used prepared mashed potatoes topped with a little smoked paprika. Didn't have beef broth so used a little chicken stock. My husband says make this again.