Better Than Mum's Shepherd's Pie - IQS Recipes

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil.
• 2 medium onions, finely diced.
• 1/2 bunch thyme, leaves picked on half the sprigs, the other half left intact.
• 2 medium carrots, finely diced.
• 3 celery stalks, finely diced.
• 2 cloves garlic, minced.
• 50 g pancetta, thickly-sliced.
• 750 g beef mince.
• 250 ml chicken stock.
• 500 ml passata.
• 500 g potato, chopped.
• 600 g pumpkin, chopped.
• 1/4 cup full-fat milk.
• 40 g butter.
• sea salt, to taste.
• freshly cracked black pepper, to taste.