For the mash
\n<\/em>1kg potatoes
\n25g butter
\n150ml milk<\/p>\n– Heat a little oil in a large saucepan or saute pan and sweat the onion, celery, and carrot until soft. Meanwhile chop up the meat into small pieces. Add these to the pan, season with salt and pepper and whack up the heat. Keep the pan moving as you brown the meat a little, before pouring in the wine and any leftover gravy. Simmer for a few minutes, add the tomato puree, and leave to tick over on a gentle flame for half an hour. Tip into a serving dish and leave to cool.<\/p>\n
– Preheat the oven to 200C. Peel the potatoes and cut into cubes. Bring to a boil in salted water and simmer until soft. Drain and mash thoroughly with the milk and butter. Season with salt and pepper and spread over the cooled lamb filling. Run the mash through with a fork, do some fancy patterns, fashion a potato rendering of the Vitruvian man, whatever – give the heat of the oven something to hold on to. Bake for 40 minutes and serve.<\/p>\n
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