Shephard Pie / Sfornato di macinato e patate

This is a very simple and typical British dish. The original recipe says it should be done with lamb minced meat, but of course you can use beef mince as well.

Questa e' una semplice e tipica ricetta Britannica. La ricetta originale dice che la carne macinata dovrebbe essere di agnello, ma ovviamente potete usare carne di maiale se preferite.

This is how I make it. I do understand that there are different recipes, many use carrots and celery with the onion, it's up to you, really.

Questa è la mia ricetta. Capisco che ci sono diverse ricette, molti usano con la cipolla della carota e sedano. Sta a voi mettere nel soffritto cio' che preferite.
Ingredients:

200 gr minced meat / carne macinata

1/2 onion finely chopped / mezza cipolla tagliata finemente

salt, pepper / sale, pepe

2 big potatoes / patate grandi

some nutmeg / un po' di noce moscata

4 tablespoons of tomato sauce / cucchiai di salsa di pomodoro

1,5 tablespoon of butter / 1 cucchiaio e mezzo du burro

Boil the potatoes, mash them and add in some salt, pepper and greated nutmeg.

Bollite le patate, passatele ed aggiungete sale, pepe e noce moscata gratuggiata.

Lighty fry the onions, till they get golden, add in the minced meat and cook properly adding the butter in, and the tomato sauce.

Add in some water if you need some more moisture. But please remember that we are not cooking a meat sauce, this one must have no liquid part.

Soffriggete la cipolla, finche' dorata, aggiungete la carne macinata finche' cotta per bene, se rischia di attaccarsi aggiungete un pochino di acqua. Ma ricordate che non stiamo facendo un sugo di carne, questa non deve avere parti liquide, ben asciutta.

Pour the cooked meat into a buttered tray, press it down a little in order to get it firm inside the tray.

Versate in una teglia imburrata questa carne cotta in padella, pressate un po' con una forchetta per compattarla bene nella teglia.

Add in the mashed potatoes.

Aggiungete le patate schiacciate.

Bake for 20 mins in a preheated oven at 180 degrees.

Cuocete in forno, preriscaldato, a 180 gradi per 20 minuti.

Very good served warmed!

Ottima servito caldo!

Spiced Minced Meat in pastry

Looks good, doesn't It ? It is a main dish, does not take long to make and is super delicious!

Ingredients:

Filling:

200 gr miced meat

spices ( thyme, pepper )

extravirgin olive oil

1 slice of bacon, 1 cm high

half onion

cheese ( 3 slices )

salt

Wrapper:

100 gr of flour

salt

extravirging olive oil

yeast ( 5 gr )

Prepare a dough with the flour, salt, water, yeast. Exactly like you would do for plain simple bread. Let it rise for 1 hour.

Slice the onion thinly.Put in in a frying pan with hot oil, chop the bacon slice into dices.

Let the onion soften up and become very golden.

In the meantime place the minced meat in a bowl.

Add in the salt, pepper, spices, 2 tablespoons of extravirgin olive oil.

At the end add in the fried bacon and onion slices.

Mix very well, make a firm dough.

When the bread dough is ready, flat it out with a rolling pin.

Place in on a tray with baking paper.

Take your miced meat dough and spread half of it on the pastry.

Flat in out a little.

take your 3 slices of cheese and lay them on the center.

Take the remaing minced meat dough and place it on top of the cheese.

Flat it out and kind of seal the border, this will prevent the melted cheese to drip out with cooking.

Wrap the minced meat dough with the pastry, leave an opening on the top. This will let steam out and your meat will cook properly.

Place in a pre-heated oven at 180 degrees.

Must be pink-ish in the middle with a golden pastry crust.

Enjoy with fries :-)