Shepherd's Pie

First time baking shepherd's pie and surprisingly, even though the meat was kinda watery, but the taste was seriously superb!! Thyme's can really make a difference!

Ready to bake!! I don't have the small cups specially for shepherd's pie, so I used the big one. Haha..

180 degrees for 30 mins. The next time I will put longer so that the top more brown. Perhaps 190 degrees, 40 mins?

Tah dah ............. looks OK rite! How about the taste then? I was so excited to try out how does it tastes like and surprisingly, even though the meat was sort of watery, but it was awesome!

The remainder of the minced meat mixture. Learn from mistake, add lesser water! Hehe....

Pretty simple steps and anyone can cook this! Trust me.....

For mashed potatoes:

• 6 tablespoon of butter
• 3 large US potatoes
• 1/4 cup of milk (adjust accordingly)
• Salt to taste

For Minced meat

• 2 big slices of chicken breast (diced)
• 1 carrot (diced)
• 1 tablespoon of Thyme (chopped)
• Salt, pepper to taste
• 1 tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce
• 1 big onion,
• 1 clove of garlic
• 2 tablespoon of butter
• Water

Steps :

1. Usually people will boil the potatoes, but I choose to steam it which will take longer time to soft. The reason is to keep the nutrients in the potatoes instead of going out to the soup. You can boil it, which will take about 25-30 mins, diced it and it will get soft faster. If steam, it will take about 1 hour. You can choose either one. Steam/boil with salt.
2. Drain and mash potatoes, add butter and milk. Pour in the milk little by little just in case you prepare too much of milk.
3. For the meat mixture, add a little oil and butter for the fragrant smell and fry onion and garlic until fragrant.
4. Add in chicken and carrot and a little of water. Add salt, pepper, and Worcestershire sauce.
5. Lastly, add in Thyme.
6. Place chicken mixture in 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 with the potatoes as well.
7. Baked at 180-190 degrees C for 30-40 mins until the mashed potatoes turn brownish.
8. Enjoy!!!!

Pretty simple rite and it's delicious! A lot of work and ask someone to help you with the mashing potatoes job (I don't like it). Hehehe...