Roast Lamb turn into Shepherd's Pie

For this you need roast lamb or beef (minced), potatoes, butter, milk, olive oil, finely chopped vegetables of your choice (carrot, celery, zucchini) or use frozen mixed vegetables to save time, onion and garlic (finely chopped), tomato sauce, Worcestershire sauce, beef stock and grated cheddar cheese.

Boil potatoes until tender then drain them. Add butter and mash until smooth. Add milk and beat to combine.

Heat oil and fry the onion, garlic and vegetables until they are soft. Add minced lamb/beef, sauce and beef stock. Keep on stirring until mixture comes to the boil. Simmer for 3 minutes. Set aside to cool.

Preheat oven to 200oC. Sppon mixture into small ramekin dish if you prefer personnal size or big oven dish if you want to serve them together. Top with mashed potato. Rake the top with a fork then sprinkle the cheese. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden.

Roast Beef or Lamb turn into casserole

For this casserole you need :

Roast beef or lamb left over

1 onion and 1 carrots, diced

1.5 tbsp plain flour

2 cups beef stock

Worcestershire sauce

soy sauce

4-5 sprigs of thyme

Put oil in a pan, add vegetables and cook for 1-2 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Sprinkle flour and still until the vegetables are coated. Gradually pour in stock while still stirring.

Add the remaining ingredients, stir until boils.

Put in the roast beef or lamb, cut into bite sized pieces.

Then you can continue cooking the beef in a casserole dish in the oven, or keep in on the stove. Just make sure you stir it now and then and put more water to keep the ingredients just covered.

If you cook beef or lamb casserole from the beginning, you need need sometime for the meat to get tender, but because you put in cooked meat, it will not take that long for your beef or lamb to be ready.

Serve with pasta or rice