Mini Shepherd's Pie

By Lisa VanWilliams

We have done a couple variations on this recipe and you can adjust it to your tastes. It's one of my husbands faves and I am making it allll the time, so I try some different things with it just to keep it interesting. Depending on whether you prefer sweet potatoes over gold, ground turkey meat over ground beef, or you could replace the peas with edamame or lima beans instead. The possibilities are endless and the result will be a tasty filling dish that tastes even better reheated the next day..should there be any leftovers. You can make it healthy or more comfort food style as you like, but it will warm you up from the inside out. Make this in a 13X9 family style or put them in mini crocks like this.

Ingredients:
6 Yukon Gold potatoes peeled, cooked, & mashed (with milk, butter, salt&pepper)
1 pound ground beef 80/20
1 medium onion diced
1/2 red pepper diced
1/2 green pepper diced
2 cloves garlic diced
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 tablespoon Montreal Steak seasoning
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
salt & pepper
1 cup frozen peas
1 can cream of corn
1 can whole kernel corn
1/2 cup shredded Romano or Parmesan
1/3 cup grated Parmesan
couple dashes of Paprika on top

Directions:
Start by peeling, cooking and mashing the potatoes. Put to side. Preheat oven to 350. Then in a pan add olive oil, peppers, garlic, and onions and sauté them until they are soft.

Add your hamburger meat, salt & pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, Montreal Steak seasoning, Worcestershire sauce, and cook until meat is no longer pink. Add in the frozen peas once the meat is almost cooked and stir together. Put your meat mix into the bottom of the crock.

Now you layer it up. Add your whole kernel corn and then add the cream corn over that and spread it out evenly.  

Dollop your mashed potatoes across the meat mixture and then spread them out. Sprinkle top with grated cheese, then shredded cheese, and finish with Paprika on top.  

Bake in oven 1/2 hour on 350 until it starts to brown. Enjoy !