Name: Slow Cooker Ground Beef Shepherd’s Pie Recipe
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 300 min
Total time: 320 min
Ingredients: 1 pound lean ground beef; ½ onion (diced); 2 teaspoons minced garlic; 3 Tablespoons whole wheat flour; 1 Tablespoon tomato paste; 1 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce; 1 Tablespoon soy sauce; 14.5 ounces low sodium beef broth; 2 cups frozen mixed vegetables carrots, peas and corn; salt and pepper, to taste; 13.75 ounces instant mashed potatoes ((or homemade)); 1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese; fresh parsley (chopped, optional topping)

Get ready for a deliciously filling recipe when you make our slow cooker ground beef shepherd’s pie recipe. It is loaded with all the vegetables, potatoes, and meat that you need to satisfy your tastebuds.

For an easy ground beef recipe, make our slow cooker ground beef shepherd’s pie recipe. When you make this slow cooker shepherd’s pie recipe, you are able to take the traditionally loved shepherd’s pie recipe and take the extra work out of it!

A serving of Slow Cooker Ground Beef Shepherd’s Pie Recipe on a plate

You can make slow cooker ground beef recipes that are perfectly flavorful and delicious. And this slow cooker hamburger pie recipe is definitely one of them.

Since you don’t have to make it all over the stove top, you can prep it, set it all up in the slow cooker and leave it, making time for other things. Which, is exactly the kind of recipe I love to make on the nights where we have the the sports and school events that take up a lot of time.

We have some great recipes that you can use ground beef in the slow cooker. Some of my top recipes I like to make are our slow cooker tamale pie recipe, slow cooker cheesy beef and potatoes, and you definitely can’t go wrong with our slow cooker Mexican hamburger hashbrown casserole recipe. They are all extremely wonderful and made perfectly in the slow cooker.

Ingredients needed to make Slow Cooker Ground Beef Shepherd’s Pie

Ingredients You Need to Make Our Slow Cooker Ground Beef Shepherd’s Pie Recipe:

Lean ground beef
Diced onion
Minced garlic
Whole wheat flour
Tomato paste
Worcestershire sauce
Soy sauce
Low sodium beef broth
Frozen mixed vegetables (carrots, peas, and corn)
Salt
Pepper
Intant mashed potatoes (or homemade)
Sharp cheddar cheese
Fresh parsley, chopped

How To Make Our Slow Cooker Ground Beef Shepherd’s Pie Recipe:

To begin, get our your slow cooker, plug it in and spray it all with nonstick cooking spray.

Then brown the ground beef along with the diced onion and minced garlic on the stove top in a large skillet over medium high heat.

Once the meat is fully cooked, pour the meat mixture into a colander to drain the grease.

Now add the meat back to the pan along with the wheat flour and cook it all for another minute.

Adding tomato paste and sauces to ground beef

After the flour cooks in, stir in the tomato paste, Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, and beef broth and cook it all together for 5 minutes or until the sauce begins to thicken up.

Then reduce the heat down to low and pour in the frozen veggies, salt, and pepper, and stir it all together.

Meat and vegetable mixture in the bottom of a slow cooker

Once everything is mixed together, pour the meat mixture into the bottom of the slow cooker and spread it out long the bottom.

Prepared mashed potatoes on top of meat mixture in the slow cooker

Now, prepared the instant mashed potatoes according to the packaging and then carefully spread the potatoes over top of the meat.

After the layers have been made, place the lid on the slow cooker and turn it to low for 5-6 hours or until the shepherd’s pie is bubbly.

Next, remove the lid from the slow cooker and sprinkle on the cheese and return the lid to the slow cooker.

Slow Cooker Ground Beef Shepherd’s Pie topped with cheese in the slow cooker

Allow the cheese to cook with everything for another 10 minutes or until the cheese is fully melted.

Then simply top the pie with fresh parsley, serve and enjoy!

To Make This Easy Ground Beef Recipe You Will Need:

Slow cooker (THIS one works great!)
Large skillet
Colander
Wooden spatula
Nonstick cooking spray

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Can I Put Raw Ground Beef in the Slow Cooker?

You can, but most recipes have a step for browning the ground beef first to make sure that it is evenly cooked and the grease is drained. If you put the ground beef in the slow cooker raw, you will want to break it into little pieces first and then make sure that it’s fully cooked before consuming food.

I have found that I prefer to cook it before adding it to the slow cooker because then I can drain the grease off of the meat. However, if you want a recipe that doesn’t require cooking the ground beef before adding it to the slow cooker, check out our Slow Cooker Hobo Dinner recipe.

What is the Difference Between Shepherd’s Pie and Cottage Pie?

The biggest difference, and really the only difference between shepherd’s pie and cottage pie is the meat that you use as the base for the meal.

Traditionally shepherd’s pie was always made with minced lamb meat in areas like England and Ireland. Whereas as cottage pie was traditionally made with minced beef.

It seems as though the two are almost one in the same here in the United States. So if you make to make this the traditional way to make shepherd’s pie, opt for some minced lamb instead of ground beef.

Can I Use Homemade Mashed Potatoes?

We simply use instant mashed potatoes for this recipe out of easy and simplicity, but you are more than welcome to use homemade mashed potatoes it its place!

The Cozy Cook has a great homemade mashed potatoes recipe that you can give a shot and replace the instant mashed potatoes in this recipe.

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Serves: 8