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Shepherd's Pie

Savory ground beef and vegetables under a mashed potato crust, browned in the oven.

Shepherd's Pie, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
55 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$10.43

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 lb ground beef (80/20)
  • 2 lb russet potatoes
  • 4 tbsp unsalted butter
  • 1/2 cup whole milk
  • 1 yellow onions
  • 1/2 lb carrots
  • 8 oz frozen green peas
  • 2 tbsp all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/4 cup beef broth
  • 1 tbsp worcestershire sauce
  • 1 tsp dried thyme

Method

  1. Boil the peeled, chunked potatoes in salted water until tender, 18 minutes. Drain and mash with the butter and milk. Season well.

  2. Heat the oven to 400F. Brown the beef in a skillet and drain the fat.

  3. Add the diced onion and carrot and cook 6 minutes until softened.

  4. Sprinkle the flour over, stir one minute, then add the broth, worcestershire and thyme. Simmer until thick.

  5. Stir in the peas, scrape into a baking dish and spread the mash over the top, roughing it up with a fork.

  6. Bake 30 minutes until bubbling at the edges and browned on top.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 11 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United Kingdom£36.02£9.0111 of 11 ingredients
Australia$68.42$17.1111 of 11 ingredients
New Zealand$104.09$26.0211 of 11 ingredients
Canada$106.52$26.6311 of 11 ingredients
United States$41.71$10.439 of 11 ingredients
Germany39,67 €9,92 €9 of 11 ingredients
Egypt‏٧٣٣٫٩٨ ج.م.‏‏١٨٣٫٥٠ ج.م.‏8 of 11 ingredients
Greece30,97 €*7,74 €7 of 11 ingredients
Spain15,21 €*3,80 €7 of 11 ingredients
Mexico$905.98*$226.507 of 11 ingredients
Austria€ 32,20*€ 8,056 of 11 ingredients

* We have read fewer than seven in ten of these ingredients in that country, so the total is a partial figure and the real one is higher.

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