Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, vegan shepherd's pie. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
My family wasn't big on casseroles growing up and John and I aren't big on them now, but this recipe may be our one exception. Traditional Shepherd's pie contains ground beef, which I considered swapping for walnuts, a combination of mushrooms and walnuts, or lentils. Shepherd's pie is pure comfort food, and this vegan version will satisfy the taste buds of the vegetarians in the crowd.
Vegan Shepherd's Pie is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Vegan Shepherd's Pie is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have vegan shepherd's pie using 16 ingredients and 23 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Vegan Shepherd's Pie:
- Take 500 g rinsed, 12h-soaked green&brown lentils*
- Take 1500 g water
- Prepare to taste salt & pepper
- Prepare 1 large white onion ca.175g
- Prepare 4-6 garlic cloves ca.20g
- Get 3-4 carrots ca.200g
- Take Olive oil (or vegan butter)
- Take 4 sprigs fresh thyme or 1½tsp dryied thyme
- Make ready 2420 g diced potatoes (came from a packet of 3kg)
- Make ready salted water (e.g. 2tbsp of smoked salt)
- Take 260 g cashews
- Prepare 340 g water (e.g. reuse potato water)
- Make ready herb salt
- Make ready ground pepper
- Get ground nutmeg
- Take or the equivalent in jarred precooked lentils
A great meat-free dinner recipe which is flavorful and very tasty! Healthy Vegan Shepherd's Pie "Delicious lentil veggie pie with mashed potato topping". That's what I made for dinner quite. This delicious, savoury vegan shepherd's pie freezes very well, so make in individual portions if you prefer, or freeze the leftovers.
Instructions to make Vegan Shepherd's Pie:
- Rub 27x36cm casserole with raw garlic clove, grease with vegan butter or olive oil (a spray is easiest)
- Boil lentils in 1.5 l of water for 40min (or use 2x 660g glas jars of lentils)
- Or cook lentils w/out soaking in thermomix
- If termomix available: add 500g lentils, tbsp veggie broth powder and 1.5l water; program 100°C for 40min reverse speed 1. Done :)
- Lentils into casserole
- Add salt & pepper to please your taste
- Mince garlic (in tmx at speed 7), onion, carrots (tmx 5) and sautee with thyme in olive oil (tmx varoma speed 1 for 3min)
- Add garlic etc to lentils in casserole and combine everything
- Let heat up and simmer at low temperature
- Grind pepper over lentils if desired
- Peal off knobbly parts of potato. I often leave a large amount of skin on because I like it. Choose what you prefer.
- Dice potatoes and start boiling salted water in pot
- When water is boiling add the potatoes, cover with lid and set timer for 15 minutes
- During cooking time you will need to lessen heat so potatoes don't boil over
- Preheat 220℃ oven
- Potatoes need to be very soft for mashing, and if done, pour out water (keep it for making cashew cream)
- Potatoes back into pot, lid on and now blend cashews with water at highest speed for 90 seconds
- Start mashing up potatoes, add cashew cream (depending on type of potato you might not need all of the cream) and a dab of butter. Add salt, nutmeg and pepper to your taste.
- If using separate frying pan, transfer thickened lentils to casserole. Lentils are the base layer
- Top with mashed potatoes
- Into oven for 10-15 minutes until mash is a bit browned at peaks
- If lentils are a bit liquidy you can use hot-air oven, then please turn down to 200℃
- As I have left the peal on half of the potatoes, you can see specks of it in the baked potato crust of this just out-of-the-oven delicious shepherd's pie
The secret ingredient is nutritional yeast, a great vegan. This naturally vegan lentil shepherd's pie is made by baking stewed lentils and vegetables with a garlic chive mashed potato topping. My meatless shepherd's pie recipe is flavorfully made with normal, non-weird, nutritious ingredients and I hope that you and your family love it! Meanwhile, chop the carrots, celery, and onion, sauté in vegan butter or oil for a few minutes. These shepherd's pie recipes run the range from the traditional (featuring ground or minced lamb) to the modestly modified (ground beef instead of lamb) to the more modern and experimental (vegan or paleo shepherd's pies).
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