With a savoury ground meat base topped with creamy potatoes and a crunchy topping, Tourtiere Shepherd’s Pie is hearty and filling, making it a perfect meal.
Tourtiere Shepherd’s Pie is a comfort food that uses a Canadian favourite, tourtiere, to make a base for a shepherd’s pie. It is almost like a deconstructed tourtiere without a crust.
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Ingredients For Tourtiere Shepherd’s Pie
For this recipe, you will need the following ingredients:
The Meat Base:
- Ground pork.
- Garlic cloves.
- Yellow onion.
- Carrots.
- Celery.
- Green and red peppers.
- All-spice.
- Cinnamon.
- Nutmeg.
- Ground thyme.
- Sea salt.
- White pepper.
For The Potato Layer:
- Potatoes. We use yellow or russets.
- Butter.
- Milk.
- Sea salt.
- Pepper.
Topping:
- Butter.
- Bread crumbs. We use Italian seasoned bread crumbs.
- Black pepper.
Alternative Ingredients
The ground pork in this dish can be replaced with ground beef or turkey.
The vegetables in this shepherd’s pie are diced and to save time we sometimes use frozen diced mixed vegetables. Our go-to is No Name diced vegetable mix that has onion, carrots, celery, and peppers.
To add extra vegetables to the dish, a cup of kernel corn can be added to the other vegetables.
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Serving Shepherd’s Pie
Shepherd’s Pie is almost a meal in itself. It is hearty and filling. We like to serve it with a side salad since there are not a lot of vegetables in the dish itself.
A side of garlic bread or baguette goes well with shepherd’s pie, too.
What To Do With Leftover Shepherd’s Pie
Shepherd’s Pie should be cooled completely before storing it in a covered container in the fridge. Use within three days.
Leftovers can also be wrapped and frozen for up to three months. Thaw at room temperature before reheating.
We like to cut the shepherd’s pie into serving-size pieces before storing it in the fridge or freezer. It makes a great lunch or quick dinner.
Reheating Shepherd’s Pie
There are a few ways to reheat tourtiere shepherd’s pie:
In a microwave oven. Heat on a microwave-safe plate or in a container, for 1-2 minutes or until heated through.
In the oven. Preheat the oven to 350ºF and bake until heated through.
An air-fryer. This is our favourite way to reheat leftovers. Our air-fryer is not a drawer-type air-fryer, it can also be used as an oven, similar to a toaster oven. In our opinion, it’s the best way to reheat any leftovers.
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Tourtiere Shepherd's Pie
Ingredients
Potato Layer
- 8 cups potatoes, cubed
- ¾ cup milk
- ½ cup butter
- 1 tsp sea salt
- ½ tsp pepper
Meat Base
- 1 kilogram lean ground pork, approximately 2 pounds
- 1 medium yellow onion, diced
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 Tbsp all-spice
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 1 tsp ground thyme
- 1 tsp fine sea salt
- ½ tsp white pepper
- 1 cup diced carrots
- 1 cup diced celery
- 1 cup diced green and red peppers
Topping
- 2 Tbsp melted butter
- ¼ cup bread crumbs
Instructions
- In a large pot of salted water, add the potatoes and bring to a boil over high heat.
- Lower the heat to medium-high and cook the potatoes until tender. About 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, in a skillet over medium heat, brown the ground pork with the onion and garlic, crumbling the meat as it cooks.
- Once the meat is cooked, add the spices to the meat and mix well.
- Add the vegetables to the meat and stir.
- Cook the meat mixture for 2-3 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside.
- Drain the cooked potatoes and mash them with the milk, butter, salt, and pepper.
- Preheat oven to 375℉
- Evenly spread the meat mixture on the bottom of a 9"x13" pan or casserole dish.
- Top with the mashed potatoes, spreading it out to cover the meat completely.
- Brush the potatoes with melted butter.
- Sprinkle the breadcrumbs over the top of the melted butter.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until heated through and the top is starting to get golden.
- Allow the dish to cool for 2-3 minutes before cutting into squares and serving.
