This shepherd’s pie, also known as a cottage pie, has delicious potatoes with garlic and Romano cheese on top. Almost anything can be added or changed in the ingredients. This is a favorite among kids and gets even better after a day of sitting. There shouldn’t be any trips to the store because most of the ingredients should be on hand. Any cheese can be used in place of the Romano.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 45 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr |
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 8 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground beef
- ½ cup chopped onion
- 1 teaspoon dried rosemary
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
- 1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes, drained
- 2 (15 ounce) cans mixed vegetables, drained
- 2 pounds red potatoes
- ½ cup butter
- ½ cup grated Romano cheese
- 2 tablespoons minced garlic
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- ⅓ cup milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease a medium baking dish.
- Place the beef and onion in a skillet over medium heat. Season with rosemary and basil. Cook until beef is evenly brown; drain grease. Mix in tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, and mixed vegetables. Cook and stir until vegetables are heated through. Transfer to the baking dish.
- Place potatoes in a pot with enough water to cover, and bring to a boil. Cook 10 minutes, or until tender. Remove from heat and drain. Mix butter, Romano cheese, garlic, salt, oregano, and milk into the pot. Mash together with a potato masher. Top beef and vegetables with the mashed potatoes.
- Bake 30 minutes in the preheated oven. Turn oven to broil, and continue cooking 3 minutes, until potatoes are golden brown.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 392 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 33 g |
| Cholesterol | 74 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 6 g |
| Protein | 18 g |
| Saturated Fat | 11 g |
| Sodium | 889 mg |
| Sugars | 7 g |
| Fat | 21 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Easy to make
I substituted frozen vegetables for canned vegetables and Italian chicken sausage for ground meat. I ran the sausage through the food processor when it was cooked to get an appropriate texture. I’ll cook the whole recipe tomorrow evening, but there is enough for two medium casserole dishes.
Excellent recipe! Used frozen veggies instead of canned, but otherwise made as is! My go-to recipe from now on
Delicious!
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it was Awesome!!!
I loved it! I was heavy handed with the cheese, garlic, and spices. Turned out freaking fantastic. After mastering this, you could totally personalize it with your own veggies and spices.
This was surprisingly easy, but it still took me about 30 minutes to prep – I’m NOT a skilled cook, so I am super inefficient! But it was worth it – my 11 year old said it was the best meal I’ve ever made! The mashed potato topping was really tasty – if you’re as inefficient as I am (is that possible?), you could save time by not messing with adding cheese, garlic, etc, but you’d miss out on what makes this really unique. I will definitely be making this again (striving for 20 minute prep next time 😉
This was really basic. If I hadn’t added a lot more seasoning than called for it would’ve been super bland. I have made many different shepherd pie recipes searching for one I really enjoy(my bf loves it). This is not it. It isn’t bad, but isn’t great. Too much tomato flavor.
You cannot make Shepherds pie with beef, for Shepherds pie you use Lamb, beef is used for cottage pie,
I enjoyed it enough. I think that in the future I will leave out the tomatoes, though. Instead of canned veggies, I diced up some carrots and celery and added some green beans that I had frozen for later use. (I also tossed in a piece of jalapeño, but it wasn’t enough that I could really taste it.) I put the oregano (fresh) and the garlic into the meat mixture instead of the potato mixture. Because we use dry milk here, I didn’t fully drain the potatoes and used that to reconstitute the milk. It was a little time consuming, but I should have enough for a fair number of meals; so I think it was worth it.
great easy to make recipe. Substituting for frozen veggies worked well.
It was rather bland.
Only substitutions I made were using frozen veggies (peas and carrots) instead of canned and cheddar instead of Romano cheese as that’s what I had on hand. Family really enjoyed this filling dish — a good way to get a lot of mileage out of a pound of ground beef too. Will definitely be making this one again.
A few changes I made were to use fresh veggies. I diced carrots, green pepper, onion, zucchini, and added frozen corn to the ground beef while browning. I added tomato sauce but no diced tomatoes. I like a beefy taste so added a can of onion soup instead and it was really good. When I add garlic to mashed potatoes I always throw the whole clove in the boiling water and then mash it together with the potatoes. Always tasty and the Romano cheese was great in the topping.. Everyone had seconds.
Turned out great!! Easy yummy dinner
We have made this about 5 times with several variations. We use frozen mixed veggies (broccoli, cauliflower, carrots), turkey meatballs, and double the spices. It’s delicious comfort food.
The recipe was quite good. I do increase the spices, especially salt and pepper & mix /14 C of mayonaise in the mashed potatoes for silkiness.
I really enjoy this take however I’m going to use different veggies next time, plus I added spicy pepper jack cheese to the top during the broil. I like a little more kick to mine. but I loved it.
Will make this again! Great flavor. Will totally add in more potatoes for the topping as the potatoes tasted awesome. Used mild cheddar instead of romano.
Excellent!! For the most part I followed the recipe. I had leftover mashed potatoes from another night so I just used those. I steamed fresh sliced carrots and sugar snap peas as the vegetable. Any vegetable would work well. These are what my kids prefer.