Recipe: Delicious Sheppards pie stuffed baked potatoes

Sheppards pie stuffed baked potatoes. Shepherd's Pie is a delicious dish of ground meat (traditionally lamb, but beef is popular as well), gravy, vegetables, and topped with mashed potatoes. There's many varieties but one thing they tend to have in common is time. One of the only draw backs of making shepherd's pie is the amount of time it takes to make.

Shepherd's Pie Stuffed Baked Potatoes turn your favorite comfort food casserole upside down for a fun twist on a classic. A simple spud becomes a full meal when you fill your loaded baked potatoes with ground beef and veggies and top with melted cheese. This easy dinner idea will be a new (naturally gluten free) family favorite! You can cook Sheppards pie stuffed baked potatoes using 9 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Sheppards pie stuffed baked potatoes

1. Prepare 3 of large baking potatoes.
2. It's 2 tbsp of low fat cream cheese.
3. Prepare 1 tbsp of butter.
4. It's 1 tbsp of grated Parmesan cheese.
5. You need 2 tbsp of half/half or milk.
6. Prepare 1 lb of lean ground beef/turkey.
7. You need 1 cup of frozen carrots and peas.
8. You need 1/2 cup of Campbell's pot roast sauce.
9. Prepare of Finely shredded cheddar/jack for topping.

Place the scooped out potatoes into a bowl, mash the potatoes and mix in the butter, milk, ½ teaspoon salt, and ¼ teaspoon pepper. Place the potatoes in the tin foil lined pan. Fill each potato with the meat and vegetable mixture. Pierce the potatoes with a fork in a few spots.

Sheppards pie stuffed baked potatoes step by step

1. Bake potatoes at 450 for 1 hr let cool briefly then slice in 1/2.
2. Scoop out the middles don't go down to the skin you want a shell for filling.
3. Take your potato insides and add to a blender, add tbsp of butter.
4. Parmesan cheese.
5. Cream cheese.
6. 2 tbsp of half & half, remember to scrape down the sides for even combination.
7. Cook ground meat this is a copper pot no extra oil needed. I'm using this tool to break up the ground beef as evenly as possible.
8. Add in frozen peas and carrots.
9. I'm using 1/2 cup of this sauce for the meat filling it has all the seasonings you'll need..
10. Fill potato shell up with meat filling. I'm weighing mine. It held 4.5 ounces of filling.
11. Place mashed potatoes in a piping bag and pipe on top of your stuffed potatoes.
12. Bake at 375 for 25 minutes then top with shredded cheese. I used 1/2 serving on my potato it was enough.
13. Here is my dinner I'm having it with a small serving of beet and kale salad.
14. Here was the calorie and macro breakdown for this meal.

Slice each potato in half lengthwise. Scoop the flesh into a large bowl, saving the potato shells. The recipe is the same - a mince filling topped with mashed potato. The only difference is that Shepherd's Pie is traditionally made with lamb mince whereas Cottage Pie is made with beef mince. I always get the names confused!