Amy's Shepherd's Pie

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 5
• 1/4 cup butter or 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 lb peeled and sliced carrot (can do less if you like)
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 4 cups beef broth
• 1 cup tomato sauce
• 2 teaspoons worcestershire sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon oregano
• 1 1/2 lbs cooked ground turkey or 1 1/2 lbs ground beef or 1 1/2 lbs ground venison
• 4 cups mashed potatoes

Recipe

• 1 melt butter/ heat up oil in large stockpot or sauce pan (depending on how large a recipe you are making) and saute onions and carrots until tender.
• 2 stir in flour and cook one minute.
• 3 gradually add beef broth and bring to a boil stir constantly.
• 4 add the rest of the ingredients, tomato sauce, worcestershire, oregano and ground meat.
• 5 cover pan and reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes or so.
• 6 at this point it is ready to freeze in freezer bags after cooling if you like. i like to freeze my mashed potatoes in freezer bags and then thaw both overnight in fridge and then assemble.
• 7 i like to serve it to my family at this point with perfect mashed potatoes on the side as that is how my kids like this.
• 8 however, you can also pour into a sprayed baking dish (8x8 if one recipe), top with perfect mashed potatoes and bake at 400 for 20-30 minutes until heated through.