Meat and Potatoes, who can resist such glorious foods!
Today, I created my version of Shepherd’s Pie.
I love any food that has cheese in it and the well seasoned meat doesn’t hurt at all.
Yes, I am quite aware that Shepherd’s Pie is made with lamb, hence the name Shepherd.
I didn’t want to use lamb, I wanted to use ground turkey because I love the taste of ground turkey.
Use whatever meat you like, you can use pork, chicken, beef, it’s up to you!
I’ve even on occasion replaced the meat with all veggies, using mushrooms and zucchini for a meatless version.
This is a dish that is really simple to put together, after browning up the meat with celery, bell peppers, onions, and garlic, you top the meat with creamy, cheesy, potatoes and bake for about 15 minutes.
You can really turn this into your own personal favorite by switching up the veggies to your personal preference.
You can also prepare the dish in advance and freeze it, thaw it in the fridge overnight and bake it the next day.
This turned out great, it’s baked, cheesy, goodness, you must make this to experience the food love people!
I can only explain but once must make this to have the real food experience.
Enjoy!
Cheesy Creole Shepherds Pie
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 40 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 lb. ground turkey
- 1 bell pepper, diced
- 1 onion, diced
- 1 stalk celery, diced
- 3 cloves garlic, diced
- 1/4 cup beef broth, low sodium
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon creole seasoning
- 1 tablespoon black pepper
- 1/2 tablespoon garlic powder
- 1/2 tablespoon onion powder
- 1/2 tablespoon paprika
For the potatoes:
- 6 medium baking potatoes, peeled, diced
- 1/2 stick butter, melted
- 1/2 cup milk
- 4 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 cup jack cheese, grated
- 1 cup sharp cheese, grated
- 1 green onion stalk, sliced
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Mix seasoning blend together and set aside.
- Peel potatoes and dice into about 1/4 inch chunks. Place in pot, cover with water and bring to boil. Cook for about 12 minutes, until potatoes are tender.
- While potatoes boil start cooking meat.
- Place about 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a pan over medium heat, Add bell pepper, onion, and celery, season with 1 tablespoon of seasoning blend.
- Saute 5 minutes, add garlic and cook 1 minute more.
- Add ground turkey, season with 2 tablespoons of seasoning blend. Reserve the remaining seasoning blend for the potatoes.
- Cook turkey for about 10 minutes, add broth and cook 5 minutes more.
- Mix 1 tablespoon cornstarch with 1 tablespoon water, add to ground turkey and cook a few minutes more to thicken sauce.
- Drain potatoes, add remaining seasonings, melted butter, milk and mash until creamy. Add cream cheese and half of the cheese blend, mix well.
To assemble casserole:
- Add meat to a 9 inch greased casserole dish. Top with potatoes, then top with remaining cheese.
- Bake at 400 degrees for about 15 minutes.
- Remove from oven and top with green onions.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 4-6
I usually make shepherd’s pie with ground beef, but I love the idea of using turkey instead. And I love all the cheese you topped it with!
Thank you Beth, next time I am going to try a mixture of sausage and turkey and see what happens. lol
This is a perfect recipe! I can’t wait to try this for my family! Yum!
Thanks Laura!
Why do I have to print all of the pictures and comments from other people when ALL I want to print is the darned recipe?
Hello Don,
I just recently switched my site form Blogger to WordPress and I am in the process of updating all my recipes to prevent you from having to print the whole page. I just updated this one so now you can just print out the recipe. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Enjoy!
Lisa
Really … you don’t know how to use the delete key?
Cheesy Creole Shepards Pie. I am on Weight Watcher and would like to know the nutritional value in this recipes. I need to know the point plus value. It would be greatly appreciated
Hi Donna, unfortunately, I don’t know how to calculate Weight Watchers points for this recipe. I wasn’t even aware there was a point calculator. You can omit the butter, use light cheeses and skim milk and turn this dish into a low fat version. Hope that helps.
Lisa
If you don’t feel like making the mashed potatoes, just use a bag of tator tots!
Great idea Diane!
I made this with leftover turkey and topped it half with leftover mashed sweet potatoes and the other half leftover mashed potatoes. It was delicious.
Yum Kathy, I will be trying that for sure!
Lisa…Lisa…Lisa… This was the BEST shepherds pie I ever made/tasted. Girl you have got it going on OK? OK!!! LOL… Cookbook please, like yesterday. God Bless
We made this last night and my husband and I loved it! I didn’t have creole seasoning so I used half old bay and just kind of freehanded some extra onion powder, garlic powder and black pepper in. I topped with a little left over pepper jack, it was delicious. Thank you for sharing, will definitely be making again.
I’m glad you enjoyed it Amy! I love Old Bay!
I won’t say a word! 🙂 Can’t wait to make this– I’ll let you know how it turns out!