Easy Guinness Shepherd’s Pie recipe. This dinner idea made with beer is a great meal idea to make for St Patrick’s Day.
Less than one week until St Patrick’s Day! Do you celebrate?
If I am being completely honest, I don’t. However, I do appreciate any excuse to make food using Guinness beer so maybe I do celebrate.
Let’s celebrate with this Guinness Shepherd’s Pie, shall we?
What do you need to make this Guinness Shepherd’s Pie?
We’re dealing with mainly ingredients that you always have in your pantry. Minus the Guinness for me, only because me and John aren’t really huge alcohol drinkers.
All you need is:
- potatoes
- salted butter
- milk
- salt and pepper
- ground lamb or beef
- onions
- carrots
- garlic
- tomato paste
- cornstarch
- Guinness Beer
- Worcestershire sauce
- dried thyme
- frozen peas
Freezing this Guinness Shepherd’s Pie
One of the questions that I get asked the most often is if you can make a recipe ahead of time, or if you can freeze it.
Shepherd’s Pie is one of the best make ahead meals. After you assemble the pie, all you need to do is cool it, then freeze it for up to 1 month.
To cook it from frozen, all you need to do is bake at 320˚F for around 1 hour and 20 minutes, or until the centre is piping hot.
If you aren’t going to freeze it, keep it in the fridge for up to 2 days, then cook according to instructions in the recipe.
More St Patrick’s Day recipes
Looking for more recipes to make this St Patrick’s Day? Try some of these:
- Walnut Crusted Salmon with Guinness Reduction
- St Patrick’s Day Nutella Cups
- St Patrick’s Day White Chocolate Saltine Cracker Toffee
And if you try this recipe, let me know! Rate it, leave a comment and tag me with #atasteofmadness on Instagram! I always love seeing what you are creating!
Guinness Shepherd's Pie
Ingredients
- 1 lb russet potatoes, peeled and cut into quarters
- 3 Tbsp salted butter
- 1/2 cup milk
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 lb ground lamb or beef
- 1 medium onion, diced
- 1 medium carrot, peeled and diced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/2 Tbsp tomato paste
- 1/2 Tbsp cornstarch
- 1 1/4 cup Guinness beer
- 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1/2 tsp dried thyme
- 3/4 cup frozen peas
Instructions
- Place the potatoes in a medium saucepan. Cover with water then heat over medium hear until potatoes can be easily pierced with a knife. Drain and mash. Mix in the butter, milk, salt and pepper. Set aside.
- Meanwhile, cook the ground meat in a large skillet until no longer pink. Add in the onion, carrot and garlic, and cook for another 5 minutes.
- Mix in the tomato paste and cornstarch until combined. Add in the Guinness and Worcestershire sauce.
- Cover and reduce heat to low. Allow to simmer for around 10-15 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 375˚F.
- Stir in the peas to the ground beef mixture. Pour this mixture into a 9 inch square pan.
- Spread the mashed potatoes on top of the beef mixture.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes.
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We love shepherd’s pie and your version was exceptionally delicious and so easy to make! It’s a Keeper!
Yay! I am so glad!
All the juices and aroma coming from this Guinness shepherd’s pie had us salivating even before putting a forkful in our mouths. So delicious!!
That makes me so happy to hear 🙂
Guinness in cooking or baking is such a game changer! I made this recipe yesterday and my partner, who is Irish said it was the best shepherds pie he ever had! Highly recommend this recipe to anyone, and I will be making it again and again!
Agree!! So glad you liked this!
Literally one of my favorite dishes and one I would sacrifice a Guinness for, very good and easy to make. A one dish dinner!
Yes!! So glad you liked this!
This is total comfort food! The beer added such a wonderful depth of flavor to the sauce. We all loved it.
My favourite comfort food 😉
Love this recipe. This sounds like a delicious one pot meal. Perfect try this weekend.
It’s so good!! 🙂
Talk about the ultimate comfort food dish! This Guinness Shepherds pie hits all the right notes and the Guinness adds delicious layers of flavor.
So glad you liked it 🙂
I replaced the Guinness beer with a gluten-free beer and OMG it was amazing. So flavorful and simple to make.
Yay! That makes me so happy!
I love shepherd’s pie. It’s one of my favourite winter comfort foods. I’ve never made it with Guiness. Absolutely have to try that!
Yes! Let me know how it goes 🙂
Shepherd’s pie is my favorite, and the addition of Guinness adds so much flavor! Definitely making this a lot from now on!
It’s my new favourite way of making it 🙂
Wow! This is an amazing pie, that looks so yummy! The juiciness that this dish gives will just melt your eyes making it so enticing and tempting! Loved it!
So glad you liked it Amy 🙂
We love shepherd’s pie. Might even be a weekly meal at our house! I love the idea of adding Guinness beer to the mix! Sounds delicious!
It’s such a good addition 😉