Shepherd's pie recipe Recipe | Better Homes & Gardens Australia

Ingredients

• 8 lamb shanks (2.4kg), Frenched
• Sea-salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper, to season
• 1 Tbsp ground allspice
• 1 Tbsp plain flour
• 100ml extra virgin olive oil
• 3 sticks celery, finely sliced
• 3 carrots, peeled, cut into 2cm lengths
• 10 eschalots, peeled, sliced into rounds
• 6 cloves garlic, sliced
• 6 sprigs thyme
• 4 sprigs rosemary, leaves picked, roughly chopped
• ¼ cup tomato paste
• 2 Tbsp honey
• 250ml dry white wine
• 400ml chicken stock
• 100ml hot water
• 400g can diced tomatoes
• 1 Tbsp unsalted butter, softened
• Extra 1 Tbsp plain flour
• 6 Dutch cream potatoes (about 1kg), peeled, cut into 5cm pieces
• 1 cup (40g) finely grated parmesan
• 4 egg yolks
• 6 grinds of whole nutmeg or
• ¹⁄8 tsp ground nutmeg
• Extra 150g unsalted butter, chopped