My husband loves this delicious beef pie since it’s so simple to make. The remaining food is ideal for lunch the next day. If desired, you might sprinkle a cup of shredded Cheddar cheese on top of the potatoes for taste.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 50 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
| Yield: | 6 servings |
Ingredients
- 3 potatoes, peeled and cubed
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 1 large onion, diced
- 1 green bell pepper, chopped
- 2 tablespoons margarine
- ¼ cup milk
- 1 (9 inch) unbaked pie shell
- 1 (15 ounce) can cream-style corn
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Place the potatoes into a saucepan and fill with enough water to cover. Bring to a boil, and cook for 15 minutes, or until tender. Drain and mash with margarine and milk until fairly smooth.
- Meanwhile, crumble the ground beef into a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion and bell pepper. Cook and stir until beef is browned; drain excess fat.
- Place the beef and onion mixture into the bottom of the pie shell, pour the cream-style corn over it. Spread mashed potatoes to cover the top of the pie.
- Bake for 30 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the pie crust and potatoes are golden brown.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 548 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 54 g |
| Cholesterol | 64 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 4 g |
| Protein | 19 g |
| Saturated Fat | 11 g |
| Sodium | 466 mg |
| Sugars | 7 g |
| Fat | 29 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I love this recipe!! The ONLY change I made was to add whole kernel corn to the meat, onion, pepper mixture. I put cheese on top, not sure if Laurie did. It was delicious! Thank you Laurie!!
Don’t care for pastry at bottom. In need of some spices!!!! And don’t care for green pepper.
added Rotel to meat and came out great drain Rotel
Used ground turkey instead of beef. Wonderful!
My husband loves this. I changed it a little like everyone else. I go the easy way and use butter and herb instant potatoes. It adds so much more flavor. It goes great with beef, turkey, and deer burger. It is a great hit not matter how you make it. I think some time I might ditch the pie shell though. It is just adding calories we don’t really need.
Love this recipe but I made a few changes. Omitted the green peppers but added bread crumbs and two eggs and mix Into brown meat. This gives a meat, crumb, texture. Sort of like a pie crust. Delicious.
I modified this recipe just in taking out the pie shell for health reasons. I have celiac and really didn’t feel like making a homemade crust tonight. I also added cheese to the top of the potatoes for the last 5 minutes of cooking. The taste was good. This is a great base recipe to make changes to that suit your palette.
Made this and loved it.. i not only used one pie crust but topped it with another and even my picky eater husband LOVED it!!! Just fantastic… i mix it up and add my own secrets ,like everyone… or just change it around … no way to mess this up!! Thanks for posting !
I made this last night and it was delicious. I used regular corn instead of cream style. I didn’t use a pie crust this time but will next time. I topped the potatoes with shredded cheddar cheese. This recipe is easy and I love it.
Adding taco mix to the ground beef is a nice change to this recipe, also sliced green bean give it a nice texture
shepherds pie is made using lamb with mashed potatoes on top and cottage pie with beef lol. This is not a shepherds pie. I’m from the uk and this is not how you make it lol.
Everyone loved this! It was my first time making shepards pie, so I did take the advice of some of the other reviewers and used a third each of a red and orange bell pepper. Also finely minced a few mushrooms and added a beef bullion cube with a half cup of water, a splash of worcestershire, a tbsp of tomato paste, and a little garlic powder. Also put a half cup of colby jack under the potatoes, and cheated on the potatoes by using a box of a roasted garlic. I didn’t have a pie crust so I skipped it, but would try it that way too.
After reading several of the other reviews, I did adjust the recipe a little. I added McCormick Hamburger Grill Mates, worcestershire sauce and Cayanne to meat, and garlic to the potatoes. I also added a can of nibblets along with the cream corn. It was PERFECT!!
The meal was easy to prepare and my family loved it.
a delicious combination and the crust is great. I do not know many people who uses a crust with their shepherds pie recipe including myself, but the crust was definately a delicious touch.
I made it exactly according to the recipe, even taking advice from a previous posting to bake the pie crust before filling it – it was watery, bland and overall not good.
Let me start off with the negative. When I put all the ingredients in the UNbaked pie shell at only 350, it took much longer than 30 minutes for it to thoroughly bake. If I were to do it again, I’d pre bake the pie crust slightly, then add the remaining layers and bake at recommended time on recipe. Also, many reviewers complained that the recipe lacked flavor. I, personally, feel it is not a recipe that needs a lot of spicing up. Yes, the potatoes need some salt and pepper, but overall, the recipe is good as written. You could also easily substitute another vegetable for the corn to give it a totally different flavor. Having said all that, it was a pretty good recipe. But, if you have a shepherd’s pie recipe you already use and enjoy, then stick with it.
This was a great and easy meal for me and my 2 gilrs. I will make this again for them it was very tasty. I just would like to see what the leftovers willl taste like!! It did not say to season the meat but I did with cayenne and black pepper and salt and a lil bit of garlic powder. Yummy!!
I always use this recipe. Simple but good. I don’t use the green pepper, but everything else is the same. Love it!
My kids loved this for a weekend lunch, I added a little Mrs. Dash garlic to the meat mixture and tiny bit of worcestershire sauce, left out the pie crust and they went nuts over it, with the cream corn I also added a can of niblets corn, and salt and pepper to the potatoes, came out wonderful..and kid friendly…..
Wonderful