Steps to Make Vegan Shepherd's Pie

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, vegan shepherd's pie. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Vegan Shepherd's Pie is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Vegan Shepherd's Pie is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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.

Guide to Prepare Vegan Shepherd's Pie

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

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Vegan Shepherd's Pie:

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

Let simmer for a few minutes to. 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. It's still cold and rainy here, so the comfort food continues!

Instructions

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 week has been filled with Vegan Lasagna, Hearty Soups, Baked Vegan Mac and Cheese, and this Vegan Shepherd's Pie. I've always loved Shepherd's Pie but I never made my own version before, so I thought it would be fun to veganize Gordon Ramsay's Version. I'm not sure how happy Gordon would be about this, so thankfully we are at. 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!

As simple as that How to Make Vegan Shepherd's Pie

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