Vegan Shepherd's Pie
Vegan Shepherd's Pie

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, vegan shepherd's pie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Vegan Shepherd's Pie is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Vegan Shepherd's Pie is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

So flavorful and satisfying that you won't miss the meat! The Best Vegan Shepherd's Pie features protein rich lentils with a medley of vegetables in a rich gravy, topped with classic mashed potatoes and baked to perfection for a rustic. This is the perfect comfort food which is plant-based, gluten-free and easy to make. Made with lentils, veggies, and mashed potatoes.

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

The ingredients needed to make Vegan Shepherd's Pie:
  1. Prepare 500 g rinsed, 12h-soaked green&brown lentils*
  2. Get 1500 g water
  3. Prepare to taste salt & pepper
  4. Prepare 1 large white onion ca.175g
  5. Make ready 4-6 garlic cloves ca.20g
  6. Make ready 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. Prepare salted water (e.g. 2tbsp of smoked salt)
  11. Get 260 g cashews
  12. Take 340 g water (e.g. reuse potato water)
  13. Take herb salt
  14. Take ground pepper
  15. Prepare ground nutmeg
  16. Get or the equivalent in jarred precooked lentils

Shepherd's pie is pure comfort food, and this vegan version will satisfy the taste buds of the vegetarians in the crowd. All Reviews for Traditional Style Vegan Shepherd's Pie. This meatless, dairy-free take on Shepherds Pie is packed with veggies (mushrooms! celery! parsnips! butternut squash!) and loaded. A rich, vegan lentil stew topped with homemade mashed potatoes.

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

This meatless, dairy-free take on Shepherds Pie is packed with veggies (mushrooms! celery! parsnips! butternut squash!) and loaded. A rich, vegan lentil stew topped with homemade mashed potatoes. Vegan shepherd's pie is a plant based take on this classic British dish. It's easy to make, nourishing, comforting and effortlessly gluten-free too. This vegan shepherd's pie is what (dinner) dreams are made of!

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