Vegan Shepherd's Pie
Vegan Shepherd's Pie

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, vegan shepherd's pie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Vegan Shepherd's Pie is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Vegan Shepherd's Pie is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

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.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook vegan shepherd's pie using 16 ingredients and 23 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Vegan Shepherd's Pie:
  1. Take 500 g rinsed, 12h-soaked green&brown lentils*
  2. Prepare 1500 g water
  3. Prepare to taste salt & pepper
  4. Take 1 large white onion ca.175g
  5. Take 4-6 garlic cloves ca.20g
  6. Prepare 3-4 carrots ca.200g
  7. Get Olive oil (or vegan butter)
  8. Prepare 4 sprigs fresh thyme or 1½tsp dryied thyme
  9. Prepare 2420 g diced potatoes (came from a packet of 3kg)
  10. Get salted water (e.g. 2tbsp of smoked salt)
  11. Get 260 g cashews
  12. Make ready 340 g water (e.g. reuse potato water)
  13. Prepare herb salt
  14. Make ready ground pepper
  15. Take ground nutmeg
  16. Take or the equivalent in jarred precooked lentils

This Vegan Shepherd's Pie is the perfect comfort food which is gluten-free and easy to make. Made with lentils, veggies, and mashed potatoes! 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".

Steps to make Vegan Shepherd's Pie:
  1. Rub 27x36cm casserole with raw garlic clove, grease with vegan butter or olive oil (a spray is easiest)
  2. Boil lentils in 1.5 l of water for 40min (or use 2x 660g glas jars of lentils)
  3. Or cook lentils w/out soaking in thermomix
  4. If termomix available: add 500g lentils, tbsp veggie broth powder and 1.5l water; program 100°C for 40min reverse speed 1. Done :)
  5. Lentils into casserole
  6. Add salt & pepper to please your taste
  7. Mince garlic (in tmx at speed 7), onion, carrots (tmx 5) and sautee with thyme in olive oil (tmx varoma speed 1 for 3min)
  8. Add garlic etc to lentils in casserole and combine everything
  9. Let heat up and simmer at low temperature
  10. Grind pepper over lentils if desired
  11. Peal off knobbly parts of potato. I often leave a large amount of skin on because I like it. Choose what you prefer.
  12. Dice potatoes and start boiling salted water in pot
  13. When water is boiling add the potatoes, cover with lid and set timer for 15 minutes
  14. During cooking time you will need to lessen heat so potatoes don't boil over
  15. Preheat 220℃ oven
  16. Potatoes need to be very soft for mashing, and if done, pour out water (keep it for making cashew cream)
  17. Potatoes back into pot, lid on and now blend cashews with water at highest speed for 90 seconds
  18. 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.
  19. If using separate frying pan, transfer thickened lentils to casserole. Lentils are the base layer
  20. Top with mashed potatoes
  21. Into oven for 10-15 minutes until mash is a bit browned at peaks
  22. If lentils are a bit liquidy you can use hot-air oven, then please turn down to 200℃
  23. 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

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. The secret ingredient is nutritional yeast, a great vegan. Meanwhile, chop the carrots, celery, and onion, sauté in vegan butter or oil for a few minutes. Vegetarian Shepherd's Pie with mushrooms, carrots, peas, gravy and baked under creamy mashed potatoes. ♡ Plant based!

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