Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, vegan shepherd's pie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Vegan Shepherd's Pie is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Vegan Shepherd's Pie is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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*
- Make ready 1500 g water
- Get to taste salt & pepper
- Take 1 large white onion ca.175g
- Make ready 4-6 garlic cloves ca.20g
- Take 3-4 carrots ca.200g
- Take Olive oil (or vegan butter)
- Prepare 4 sprigs fresh thyme or 1½tsp dryied thyme
- Take 2420 g diced potatoes (came from a packet of 3kg)
- Get salted water (e.g. 2tbsp of smoked salt)
- Take 260 g cashews
- Get 340 g water (e.g. reuse potato water)
- Take herb salt
- Get ground pepper
- Prepare ground nutmeg
- Make ready or the equivalent in jarred precooked lentils
Since the vegan shepherd's pie is so hearty with the mushroom base and starchy potato topping, it doesn't need much to go along with it. A nice green salad is the perfect complement to the rich flavors of the casserole, and I like having it with a glass of red wine to go along with the mushroom gravy. This vegan shepherd's pie is the dinner recipe version of wearing a fuzzy sweater and drinking hot mulled cider. It's cozy comfort food to the max!
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
It's cozy comfort food to the max! Imagine: a creamy gravy filled with tender vegetables, lentils and scented with fennel and sage. This vegan shepherd's pie is what (dinner) dreams are made of! Jaye was the one who conceived of it (he's great with the savory stuff!) and he wanted to experiment with chopping up mushrooms super fine and putting them in with the veggie mince to create a really hearty texture. A comforting vegan shepherd's pie is perfect for a healthy weeknight dinner.
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