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Tex-Mex Shepherd's Pie is a stellar comfort dish, worthy as an addition to your weeknight rotation. Vegetarian Shepherd's Pie with Carrots and Mushrooms. Skillet Chicken Thighs with Potatoes, Carrots, and Greens. This comfort dish takes advantage of a few shortcuts that don't lesson the flavor or quality of the meal, like refrigerated mashed potatoes and pico de gallo, so you can get dinner on the table fast.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook tex-mex shepherd's pie using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Tex-Mex Shepherd's Pie:
- Prepare 3 lbs. Lean ground beef
- Get 3 pkgs Taco seasoning
- Make ready Small amount of flour or cornstarch
- Prepare 1 sm. Bag potatoes; cooked & mashed (or can you use instant)
- Make ready 1 Lrg. Can corn, drained
- Take 1 Lrg. Can green beans, drained
- Prepare 1 med. Can diced tomatoes, drained
- Prepare 1/2 med. Onion, chopped (optional)
- Prepare Velveeta cheese slices (or block if you prefer cutting your own)
I grew up eating shepherd's pie—the conventional variety with peas, carrots and corn and topped with mashed potatoes—and there's a certain comforting nostalgia in it, especially at this time of year. This version is a significant improvement over a traditional shepherd's pie (sorry mom), with a tex-mex. Cottage pie is made with beef a Sheppard's pie is made with lamb. Notes on Tex-Mex Shepherd's Pie: If you are wanting to go even further down the Tex-Mex flavor route, here are a few mix-in's we thought of after the fact: crushed tomatoes, pinto beans, kidney beans, black olives, crumbled bacon, diced pepperoncinis or banana peppers, etc.
Steps to make Tex-Mex Shepherd's Pie:
- Peel, cook, and mash your potatoes as you normally would. Set aside.
- Brown your ground beef, drain, and add taco seasoning according to package instructions.
- Once your ground beef is done, add in just a little flour or cornstarch to slightly thicken the sauce, careful to avoid lumps.
- Add in your drained vegetables one can at a time, stirring to distribute them evenly.
- Pour into 13"x9" casserole dish plus an extra 9"x9" casserole dish, pressing it down and spreading evenly across the bottom.
- Layer your Velveeta slices across the top of the meat & veggie mixture. Go as cheesy as you want with it. I personally like mine really cheesy! 😉
- Get your oven preheating to 400°. Start layering on those mashed taters! Spread them evenly across the top of everything, layer them as thick as you want, so long as you have enough for both casserole dishes.
- Pop them in the oven for about 45 mins until bubbly and heated all the way through.
- Optional: broil the last few minutes to form a golden brown crusty layer to your mashed potatoes…we were starving so we didn't bother with this step this go around LOL!
- Scoop it out into bowls and enjoy!!!
Cottage pie is made with beef a Sheppard's pie is made with lamb. Notes on Tex-Mex Shepherd's Pie: If you are wanting to go even further down the Tex-Mex flavor route, here are a few mix-in's we thought of after the fact: crushed tomatoes, pinto beans, kidney beans, black olives, crumbled bacon, diced pepperoncinis or banana peppers, etc. Tex Mex Shepherd's Pie - Quick Weeknight Dinner. This comfort dish takes advantage of a few shortcuts that don't lesson the flavor or quality of the meal, like refrigerated mashed potatoes and pico de gallo, so you can get dinner on the table fast. Share: Rate this Recipe Shepherd's Pie.
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