Keith’s Casserole–a heat, comforting shepherd’s pie made within the sluggish cooker with a savory mix of floor beef, tender carrots, and a creamy layer of tacky mashed potatoes. Good for a no-fuss dinner, it’s a comforting traditional.
Keith’s Casserole
This dish combines protein (beef), veggies (carrots and onions), and carbs (potatoes) multi functional pot, your sluggish cooker. It made an ideal Sunday supper after church. The fluffy, buttery mashed potatoes and gooey cheese make it really feel like consolation meals, nevertheless it’s additionally full of protein and veggies that go away you feeling happy. The sluggish cooker technique additionally means the flavors have loads of time to develop and meld collectively. Get pleasure from!
Elements/Substitution Concepts
- Lean floor beef–or floor turkey
- Onion–yellow or white
- Kosher salt
- Black pepper
- Garlic powder
- Smoked paprika
- Child carrots–or peeled carrots reduce into chunks
- Tomato sauce
- Beef broth–or water and Higher than Bouillon
- Fast cooking tapioca*–or cornstarch (see notes)
- Potatoes–I used russets
- Butter
- Milk
- Cheddar cheese–I like sharp
Steps
Warmth a pan over medium excessive warmth. Add within the beef and break it up. Add within the onion, salt, pepper, garlic powder, paprika. Brown for five minutes. Add beef to the sluggish cooker. (I take advantage of a sluggish cooker that has a stovetop setting so I simply use that as a substitute of doing this step on the range).
Stir within the carrots, tomato sauce, broth and tapioca.
Quarter the potatoes and place them on a sheet of foil. Curl up the sides of the foil to make a bowl form. Place the foil bowl into the sluggish cooker.
Cowl and prepare dinner on low for 4 hours.
Take away the potatoes and toss them right into a mixing bowl. Mash the potatoes. Stir within the butter, milk and a pinch of salt and pepper.
Unfold the potatoes excessive of the meat combination. Sprinkle the cheese on prime of the potatoes and let it soften.
Serve and revel in!
Notes/Suggestions
- Serve with garlic inexperienced beans, a easy facet salad, crusty bread or dinner rolls or apple slices.
- Tapioca?? The tapioca on this recipe acts as a thickening agent. Because it cooks, it helps the tomato sauce and beef broth flip right into a barely thicker, extra cohesive sauce that coats the meat and greens. This creates a richer texture and prevents the filling from turning into too watery. In case you don’t have tapioca then you may stir 2 Tbsp of cornstarch in with the meat broth till easy. Then stir that combination into the sluggish cooker in step 2.
- This recipe is gluten free.
- I used my 6 quart ninja sluggish cooker. I like my sluggish cooker as a result of it has the stovetop setting which permits me to brown my meat in it earlier than sluggish cooking.
- Leftovers of this shepherd’s pie will final within the fridge for about 3 to 4 days when saved in an hermetic container*. The flavors truly get even higher as they sit, so it’s a fantastic meal for reheating! If you wish to hold it longer, you may as well freeze particular person parts for as much as 2 to three months; simply be certain to wrap or seal them properly to stop freezer burn.
- One other recipe you may make with smoked paprika is Instantaneous Pot Smoky Sausage, Potato and Kale Soup.
- This recipe is tailored from Keith Richard’s Shepherd’s Pie on Meals.com.
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Keith’s Casserole
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook dinner Time: 4 hours on low
Complete Time: 0 hours
Yield: 4–6 servings 1x
Description
A heat, comforting shepherd’s pie made within the sluggish cooker with a savory mix of floor beef, tender carrots, and a creamy layer of tacky mashed potatoes. Good for a no-fuss dinner, it’s a comforting traditional.
Elements
Scale
Directions
- Warmth a pan over medium excessive warmth. Add within the beef and break it up. Add within the onion, salt, pepper, garlic powder, paprika. Brown for five minutes. Add beef to the sluggish cooker. (I take advantage of a sluggish cooker that has a stovetop setting so I simply use that as a substitute of doing this step on the range).
- Stir within the carrots, tomato sauce, broth and tapioca.
- Quarter the potatoes and place them on a sheet of foil. Curl up the sides of the foil to make a bowl form. Place the foil bowl into the sluggish cooker.
- Cowl and prepare dinner on low for 4 hours.
- Take away the potatoes and toss them right into a mixing bowl. Mash the potatoes. Stir within the butter, milk and a pinch of salt and pepper.
- Unfold the potatoes excessive of the meat combination. Sprinkle the cheese on prime of the potatoes and let it soften.
- Serve and revel in!
Notes
In case you don’t have tapioca then you may stir 2 Tbsp of cornstarch in with the meat broth till easy. Then stir that combination into the sluggish cooker in step 2.
- Class: Beef
- Methodology: Sluggish Cooker
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