How many times do you get home from work and the last thing you want to do is make an intensive meal! For me cooking is not so much a pleasure but a chore. To be completely honest my hubby does most of the cooking and boy does he cook. I am not so adventourous but I volunteered to make two meals last week one of which was a Shepard’s Pie (props to Marvelous Girl on this recipe) which how can anyone really resist, it’s such a cozy comfort food. I wanted to make something using the things I had on hand that I wanted to purge out of our fridge/freezer. I had all of the ingredients except the ground beef so that was the only thing I had to pick up! This is also excellent to make since it makes at least 8 servings which are great for lunches throughout the week (we are leftover eaters in this household).
Ingredients:
1.5 lbs ground round beef
1 onion chopped
1 cup peas *we prefer fresh diced green beans (1/4 inch) instead
1 cup diced carrots
1 can corn
1 1/2 – 2 lbs potatoes (I used red skin potatoes because that’s what I had and I used about 6)
8 tablespoons butter (1 stick)
1/2 cup beef broth
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
Salt and pepper to taste
*On a side note this entire meal cost be about $8 dollars for the beef because I had everything else on hand!
Directions:
- Peel and quarter potatoes, boil in salted water until tender (about 20 minutes)
- While the potatoes are cooking, melt 4 Tablespoons butter (1/2 a stick) in large frying pan
- Sauté onions in butter until tender over medium heat (10 mins). If you are adding vegetables, add them according to cooking time. Put any carrots and/or green beans in with the onions. Add corn either at the end of the cooking of the onions, or after the meat has initially cooked.
- Add ground beef and sauté until no longer pink. Add salt, pepper and Worcestershire sauce. Then add half a cup of beef broth and cook, uncovered, over low heat for 10 minutes, adding more beef broth as necessary to keep moist
- Mash potatoes in bowl with rest of butter, season to taste (you can add sour cream or cheese to the potatoes if you’d like)
- Place beef mixture into baking dish. Distribute mashed potatoes on top. Rough up with a fork so that there are peaks that will brown nicely. You can use the fork to make some designs in the potatoes as well.
- Cook in 400 degree oven until bubbling and brown (about 30 minutes). Broil for last few minutes if necessary to brown.
Oops also sorry for not taking a pic of my end result! We ate it right away before I could snap a pic!
What is your go to purge meal?
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