Candice Brown's Chunky Shepherd's Pie| Family Recipes

Ingredients

• olive oil
• 1 heaped tbsp plain flour
• 800g lamb stewing steak (e.g. neck), cut into 50p-sized pieces
• 1 large red onion, diced
• 1 red pepper, seeded and diced
• 3 small carrots, peeled and diced
• 2 celery sticks, diced
• 150g chestnut mushrooms, diced
• 100g chorizo, skinned and sliced
• leaves from 1 small bunch fresh rosemary, thyme and sage, finely chopped
• 1 dried bay leaf
• 2 tsp finely chopped garlic (jarred or fresh)
• 1 small fresh red chilli, finely chopped (remove the seeds if you don’t like too much heat)
• 1 tsp hot smoked paprika
• ½ tsp paprika
• ½ tsp cayenne pepper
• 1 tsp dried thyme
• 2 tsp mushroom / porcini powder (or mushroom ketchup)
• 1 heaped tbsp tomato purée
• 200ml red wine
• 300ml beef stock (fresh or from stock cube)
• 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 4 sweet potatoes
• 4 large baking potatoes
• milk
• butter
• 3 leeks, trimmed and sliced
• 100g grated cheese (I like mature cheddar)
• salt and freshly ground black pepper