Combination Shepherd’s pie and Cottage pie

Combination Shepherd’s pie and Cottage pie

A combination shepherd’s pie and cottage pie is called what? I have no idea. I’m also topping it with mashed sweet potato rather than potato so it’s truly behind a hybrid, it is an all out mutated mess of a pie but I guarantee you this tastes the bomb.

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Slow cooked osso bucco and lamb shoulder pie topped with mashed sweet potato and served with steamed vegetables Gary Lum
Slow cooked osso bucco and lamb shoulder pie topped with mashed sweet potato and served with steamed vegetables

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Recipe

Combination Shepherd’s pie and Cottage pie
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
6 hrs
Total Time
6 hrs 10 mins
 
A combination shepherd’s pie and cottage pie is called what? I have no idea. I’m also topping it with mashed sweet potato rather than potato so it’s truly behind a hybrid, it is an all out mutated mess of a pie but I guarantee you this tastes the bomb.
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Australian
Servings: 2
Calories: 1000 kcal
Author: Gary Lum
Ingredients
  • 1 Lamb shoulder (deboned and rolled)
  • 1 cross section Osso bucco
  • 3 Onions (sliced)
  • 1 Carrot (diced)
  • 2 sticks Celery (diced)
  • 1 cup Beef stock
  • ½ cup Red wine
  • 1 Sweet potato diced
  • 1 tablespoon Sour cream
  • 1 tablespoon Coon cheese (shredded)
  • 1 cup Peppercorn gravy (instant)
Instructions
  1. Place the onions, celery, and carrot in the slow cooker and then add the beef and lamb. Slosh in the stock and wine and set the slow cooker to six hours.
    Lamb shoulder and osso bucco Gary Lum
  2. When the meat is cooked shred the beef and lamb together and add some of the onion, carrot and celery into a large mixing bowl.
    Slow cooked osso bucco and lamb shoulder with onions, carrot, celery Gary Lum
  3. Cook the sweet potato in a microwave oven until it is soft and then process with a stick blender. Add in the sour cream and cheese.
  4. Make up some instant peppercorn gravy and add it to the meat and vegetables and mix.
    Slow cooked osso bucco and lamb shoulder with onions, carrot, celery and peppercorn gravy Gary Lum
  5. In a pyrex baking dish add the meat and gravy mix. 

    Slow cooked osso bucco and lamb shoulder with onions, carrot, celery and peppercorn gravy Gary Lum
  6. Top with the sweet potato and then bake in an oven at 200 °C for 25 minutes.

    Slow cooked osso bucco and lamb shoulder pie topped with mashed sweet potato Gary Lum
  7. Serve with steamed vegetables.
    Slow cooked osso bucco and lamb shoulder pie topped with mashed sweet potato and served with steamed vegetables Gary Lum
  8. Shoot a photograph and eat the pie.
  9. Wash the dishes and then write the recipe.
  10. Write a blog post and hope that your food loving friends share the recipe on social media.
Recipe Notes

Sweet potato is sloppier than mashed potato so that’s why I use the microwave oven. I don’t use any extra water and just wait for the sweet potato to soften. The alternative is to bake the sweet potato for a smoky flavour.

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Lamb shoulder and osso bucco Gary Lum
Lamb shoulder and osso bucco
Slow cooked osso bucco and lamb shoulder with onions, carrot, celery and peppercorn gravy Gary Lum
Slow cooked osso bucco and lamb shoulder with onions, carrot, celery and peppercorn gravy
Slow cooked osso bucco and lamb shoulder with onions, carrot, celery Gary Lum
Slow cooked osso bucco and lamb shoulder with onions, carrot, celery
Slow cooked osso bucco and lamb shoulder with onions, carrot, celery and peppercorn gravy Gary Lum
Slow cooked osso bucco and lamb shoulder with onions, carrot, celery and peppercorn gravy
Slow cooked osso bucco and lamb shoulder pie topped with mashed sweet potato Gary Lum
Slow cooked osso bucco and lamb shoulder pie topped with mashed sweet potato
Slow cooked osso bucco and lamb shoulder pie topped with mashed sweet potato and served with steamed vegetables Gary Lum
Slow cooked osso bucco and lamb shoulder pie topped with mashed sweet potato and served with steamed vegetables

 

Questions and answers

 

What do you call a combination of a shepherd’s pie and cottage pie?

I was thinking Cottherd’s pie or Shepage pie. Given I’ve used sweet potato, it could be healthful or wellness inspired Cottherd’s pie or Shepage pie given sweet potato is all the rage.

Why do people mix up shepherd’s pie and cottage pie?

I don’t know. A shepherd’s pie is made with lamb and a cottage pie is made with beef.

What’s your favourite?

In a meat pie I really like a cottage pie. For a meal, I really like a shepherd’s pie especially served with vegetables.

Could you do this with a pressure cooker rather than a slow cooker?

Yes, it would be easy in a pressure cooker. I just like the whole ritual of the slow cooker.

What did you have for lunch today?

I made an English muffin cheeseburger

English muffin cheeseburger Gary Lum
English muffin cheeseburger

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26 Responses

  1. Ohmigawd, the osso bucco is making me drool! 🙂 And shepard’s pie is my total weakness! Yum, yum, yum!!

    By the way, I never asked…what is “Lummy”? In “Yummy Lummy”?

    It’s an amazing name for a blog, but I don’t know what “lummy” means. Edu-mah-cate me, puh-lease!

        1. My youngest brother got called Yummy Lummy by girls and when I started food blogging a friend at work suggested it, I figured, why not.

          1. It has a wonderful ring to it……which of course made me ask. Ha! ♥︎

            Good night you! It’s tomorrow night there…and it’s 2:38 am here. I have to be at the frickin’ courthouse in 5 hours. Bleh!

  2. I really thought shepherd’s pie was made with beef all this while… So then it’s cottage pie then. Usually I’m not a fan of sweet potato. But one time I had sweet potato mash with bits of bacon – that was amazing. Maybe an idea for your next pie, Gaz 😀

    1. Mmm…Mabel, you’re on to something there with the bacon pieces in the sweet potato. I have half the pie leftover, there would be bacon pieces added 😋

      1. Fried bacon pieces. You can never go wrong with that 😄 Let me know how it goes if you give that combo a whirl. This is one combo where the sweet and savoury go so well together 🙂

      2. Fried bacon pieces. You can never go wrong with that 😄 Let me know how it goes if you give that combo a whirl. This is one combo where the sweet and savoury go so well together 🙂

  3. This does look good! Well, except for the corn. I don’t like corn. I enjoy reading your recipes, I learn so many things. I had no idea of the difference between shepherd and cottage pies. I thought all tater topped casseroles were shepherd’s pie! I also have another question. What on earth is a stick blender???? A fork? A wooden spoon? Is it like calling walking ‘shank’s mare’ or ‘sailing by the ash breeze’ using an oar?

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