Shepherd's Pie Recipe - EastWest version

This special recipe has taken the best of bothMethods to make the mash potatoes:
worlds, by adding some Eastern ingredients to thisBoil potatoes and mash (without skin of course). Add
Western recipe. By using chillies, oyster sauce andmilk and butter; salt and pepper. Ensure they are well
chicken stock, mixed with the traditional pie sauces,mixed. (I always end up with just a bit more milk and
the result is a delicious and moist meat base with justbutter).
a tad of kick from the chillies. For more or less of theFor baking:
ingredients, its entirely up to the individual, but IPlace minced meat mixture in a baking tin, level it.
would use the following estimates to suit myPlace the mashed potatoes on top and level it. Use a
tastebud. I have baked this on many occassions andfork to make some designs on top, when its brown,
it never fails to get people asking for the recipe.makes it look pretty. Then sprinkle grated cheese on
Ingredients:top, how much you desire , it's up to you. Bake in
500g minced meat; 1-1.5kg potatoes; 3-4 tbsppre-heated oven at 210C for estimated
ketchup; 3-4 oyster sauce; 2-3 tbsp worchester30-40minutes, check in once in a while, as long as the
sauce; 3 medium onions; 6 garlic ; 3-4 cups of mixedtop is brown, you are done.
vegetables (green peas, corn, carrot); 4-6 tbsp milk;Some tips:
4-6 tbsp buttter; 2 chicken cubes; 4-5 chilli padi (smallI used to mash potatoes by first boiling them with
chillies and hotter than the usual ones, if not available,the skins, and then peel them and mash them, which
normal chillis can still be used); sliced buttonwas usually very hard work. Till I was taught by a
mushrooms ; grated cheese; salt and pepper.chef, who peeled the potatoes before boiling and cut
Methods to make the meat filling :them up into cubes, add salt. They cook faster and
Saute/fry onions for a while, add the minced meat,so easy to mash, and does not shortchange the
stir till its almost cooked. Add the sauces, chickentaste. For the westerners, if you do not wish to use
cubes, oyster sauce, ketchup. Then add mixedchillis, use lots of pepper. For the Asians with fiery
veges, mushrooms, chillis. Salt and pepper. If youtongue, use chilli padis for that kick, more if you wish
wish, you can remove the chillies from the mixturebut don't get burned!
once cooked.