I’d like to get the recipe for Fado’s Shepherd’s Pie with colcannon. My husband’s grandmother taught me to make this many, many years ago and I lost the recipe. Please can you help? — M.J. Letoha, Duluth
In sharing this recipe, Fado’s brand manager John Piccirillo wrote, “This dish has been a guest favorite for close to 20 years. Our founder, Kieran McGill, is from Ireland, and our recipe was inspired by how they make it at home. Shepherd’s Pie is traditionally made with lamb, but we use beef. It’s richer, and we feel it makes a better dish. Our culinary team took his input and created the dish we have today.”
The restaurant serves each pie in an individual 8-inch cast-iron skillet.
A note about the ingredients: the restaurant prepares its browning sauce in-house. They suggest home cooks use Kitchen Bouquet. They make the demi-glace using Knorr’s powdered demi-glace sauce mix and recommend you use that at home. You can purchase this mix, which comes in a 28-ounce container, and follow the container directions to make 2 cups.
Another option is to purchase two packages of More Than Gourmet Classic French Demi-Glace. Each 1.5-ounce package of demi-glace concentrate can be reconstituted in hot water to make 1 cup. The More Than Gourmet product can be found in some grocery stores in the soup and sauce section. The soup section is also where you will find beef soup base.
Colcannon
Prepare the colcannon while the Shepherd’s Pie filling is simmering so it will be hot when you pipe it on top of the pies. If you don’t have cooked cabbage on hand, chop 1/4 cup cabbage and add it to the potatoes during the last 10 minutes of cooking. It will cook along with the potatoes. Just drain them together and proceed with the recipe.
From the menu of ... Fado Irish Pub, 273 Buckhead Ave., Atlanta. 404-841-0066, fadoirishpub.com/atlanta.
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