Baked meat with mashed potatoes and vegetables

Are you looking for a recipe that everyone will love? Then we recommend baked beef with mashed potatoes and vegetables. It's really easy to make! But we will show you how to prepare it as if it were a pie since it is a more striking way to present it to the most demanding palates.

How to prepare a baked meatloaf with mashed potatoes?

We recommend our baked meatloaf with mashed potatoes and vegetables if you want to surprise your guests with a very easy recipe but with a chef-like presentation. It's perfect!

Usually, you can offer this stew to your guests as if it were baked meat, with a garnish of mashed potatoes and another garnish of various vegetables. What if we told you that you could combine them and make a pie with them? You'll look like a star in the kitchen with this novel recipe! The best thing is that it is very easy to prepare, and its flavor is exquisite.

You will need special meat for cooking, not a steak for grilling, which is very important. Another alternative is to use minced meat for baking it in the oven. The easiest way to avoid complications is to use minced meat, so you won't have to shred a whole piece, and you will save time.

If you prefer to use special meat for baking, you can also do so, but keep in mind that when you take it out of the oven, you will have to shred it to assemble the pie.

Mincemeat pie with mashed potatoes recipe

Ingredients

• 500 grams of minced meat. You can use a mixture of pork and beef or the one you like best.
• Five potatoes.
• Five dried tomatoes.
• Two medium onions.
• Two carrots.
• One zucchini.
• Two garlic.
• 100 grams of grated cheese for gratin.
• A teaspoon of butter.
• A small glass of whole milk.
• Water.
• 50 grams of pine nuts.
• Extra virgin olive oil.
• Coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper.
• A sprig of fresh parsley for decoration.

Elaboration

• Remember to take the meat out of the refrigerator to let it come to room temperature.
• Place the meat in a bowl with the spices and seasonings of your choice. Minced beef does not need long marinating periods: it will quickly have the flavor you are looking for!
• For this recipe, you can use salt, freshly ground black pepper, cumin, and a dash of soy sauce or red wine to give a lot of flavor to the meat. Stir with your hand so that the meat soaks up the flavors of these ingredients very well.
• You can do the marinating process of the meat while preparing the mashed potatoes, which is what will take the most time.
• Cook the potatoes, without removing the skins, in a large saucepan with plenty of water. Put the carrots and zucchini in the same pot without peeling them. You can also put them in a separate pot.
• The cooking time will be about half an hour.
• When the potatoes are soft, it is time to remove them from the heat and peel them.
• You can soak them in cold water to cut the cooking time and make them easier to handle.
• When the potatoes are peeled, put them through a food processor so that you get mashed potatoes.
• You can use a blender or food processor, but mashing them with a fork will also suffice. If they are soft enough, this will be very easy.
• Melt a teaspoon of butter in the microwave or a frying pan.
• Pour the potatoes into a bowl and add the butter, milk, salt, and freshly ground black pepper. The amount of milk will vary depending on how thick you want the mashed potatoes to be. In this case, we advise you not to have a very liquid texture, as you will have to manipulate the puree to form the meatloaf.
• Place a drizzle of olive oil in a frying pan.
• Peel and chop the onions into julienne strips and add to the pan.
• Peel and slice the garlic and add to the onions.
• Season.
• When the onion starts to become transparent, add the minced meat. Stir a little until the meat changes color, but without being completely cooked.
• Chop the tomatoes into slices of about the same thickness.
• Peel and chop the carrots and zucchini.
• In a special ovenproof dish, place a base of mashed potatoes and then the meat mixture with the onion and garlic.
• Spread a layer of tomatoes on top, accompanied by carrots and zucchini.
• Add more mashed potatoes.
• On top, spread the grated cheese and pine nuts.
• Preheat the oven to 200º C.
• Place the pan with the meat and mashed potatoes in the oven for 10 minutes.
• Carefully remove and garnish with a sprig of fresh parsley.