Shamrock Shepherd’s Pie for St. Patrick’s Day
The reason I made a shepherd’s pie for Saint Patrick's Day is that St. Patrick worked as a shepherd boy when he was a slave. The shamrock embellishes the top as St. Patrick’s symbol for the Trinity- one clover, 3 leaves!
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground beef
- Salt and pepper
- 1 cup frozen peas
- 1 cup frozen carrots
- 1 cup beef broth
- 2 ½ cups mashed potatoes
- 1 green pepper with three lobes
Instructions
- Brown the ground beef and add the broth, then salt and pepper to taste.
- Mix in the peas and carrots, and then put the ground beef mixture into a pie or casserole dish.
- Arrange the mashed potatoes on top however you’d like.
- Bake at 350 until the pie is warm throughout, and the mashed potatoes start to brown on the edges.
- Slice the green pepper crossways to get a shamrock shape, and add another sliver to make the stem. You’ll get the best shamrock shape from a slice close to the end of the pepper. Add this “shamrock” on top of the mashed potatoes to garnish the pie.
Notes
You have to be choosy when selecting a green pepper for this project! You need a green pepper with only 3 bulbs- not 4! If you get one with 4, when you slice it, it will look like a 4 leaf clover, not a shamrock. A 3 petaled shamrock is a great symbol for the Trinity.