Vegan Shepherd's Pie
This is a comfort food that is healthy with lots of lentils and veggies.
Servings: 2
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup brown lentils canned or cooked
- 1 cup zucchini
- 1 onion
- 1 cup broccoli
- ¼ cup tomato puree
- 1 tsp paprika
- salt to taste
- ½ tsp cayenne pepper
- ½ tsp cumin powder
- 1 tsp red wine vinegar (or red wine ¼ cup)
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 tsp dried mixed herbs or any herb of choice
- 1 cup vegetable stock
For Mashed Potatoes
- 5 large potatoes
- 1 tsp black pepper powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tbsp olive oil or mustard oil
- ¼ cup non-dairy milk
Instructions
- Wash & peel potatoes.
- Boil potatoes till it's soft.
- Now mash it with help of a masher.
- Add oil, salt, pepper and give it a nice mix.
Prepare the base mixture of veggies and lentils
- heat oil in a pan.
- Add onions, garlic, ginger finely chopped.
- Add celery stalks and veggies.
- Add bayleaf, hebs, cumin powder, paprika, cayenne pepper, salt.
- Give it a nice mix.
- Add lentils (uncooked, soaked for 20 minutes) add it to the pan.
- Add vegetable broth, red wine vinegar and simmer for 15 minutes or till lentils are cooked.
- *Note: - If you are using cooked/ leftover lentil, then first simmer veggies and then add cooked/ canned lentils. and again simmer.
- Don't add more water as we will not be adding any flour to thicken.
- Once veggies and lentils are cooked, remove from heat.
- Transfer to a bakeware at thbase layer.
- Now top it with mashed potatoes.
- Now broil it for 10 minutes.
- Remove from heat and serve hot.