Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, lentil shepherd's pie. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Lentil Shepherd's Pie is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Lentil Shepherd's Pie is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To make the lentil shepherd's pie: Chop up your veggies, and prep for the mash potatoes. Heat the oil in a large frying pan or skillet over medium-high heat. This recipe for lentil shepherd's pie pairs well with a night in, a good book, and a side of these honey miso roasted carrots. Making your own broth for this recipe is easier than you think.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have lentil shepherd's pie using 20 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Lentil Shepherd's Pie:
- Prepare Ingredients for potato topping: -
- Take no medium size potatoes boiled and peeled
- Take milk
- Make ready olive oil
- Get salt
- Take Ingredients for making lentil stuffing:-
- Take cooked green french lentil/sabut masoor dal
- Make ready large size carrot
- Get celery
- Make ready medium size onion
- Prepare tomato paste
- Get no garlic cloves
- Make ready olive oil
- Make ready peas
- Get pomegranate Juice
- Make ready vegetable broth/water
- Get thyme leaves dried
- Make ready garlic powder
- Get Salt and black pepper powder as per taste
- Prepare chopped celery leaves
Perfect for Thanksgiving or a weeknight dinner! This vegetarian Shepherd's Pie has all of the flavor you'd expect in the traditional version but with all of the hearty goodness of lentils! Tender lentils are simmered in a rich savory broth, topped with creamy mashed potatoes and baked to golden perfection! Serve this easy meal as a meatless favorite any time of year.
Steps to make Lentil Shepherd's Pie:
- Chop onion, carrot, garlic and celery in small pieces in separate bowls and keep aside.
- Heat the oil in a pan over medium-high flame.
- Put a pinch of salt and black pepper in hot oil along with chopped vegetables and keep stirring continuously for 6-7 minutes until the vegetables are cooked properly.
- Once the vegetables are cooked, add pomegranate juice and cook till it is over.
- Slow down the heat,add cooked lentils, peas, tomatoes paste, 1/2 cups vegetable broth, thyme, garlic powder, salt and black pepper and cook on low flame stirring continuously for 5 minutes.
- If the pulses become very dry, mix 1/4 cup broth more and mix well.Remove from flame and keep it aside.
- In a big bowl add boiled potatoes and mash with the help of masher.
- Add milk,oil, salt and pepper in mashed potatoes and mix well.
- Preheat the oven for 200 minutes at 10 minutes.
- Put the prepared mixture of lentils in ramkins or baking dish and put a layer of potato mixture over it.
- Bake at 200 * C for 10-15 minutes.Broil the potatoes for two more minutes to make it crispy.
- Once done remove from the oven,garnish with chopped celery leaves and serve hot.
Tender lentils are simmered in a rich savory broth, topped with creamy mashed potatoes and baked to golden perfection! Serve this easy meal as a meatless favorite any time of year. French green lentils (Puy lentils) make a hearty base for this vegetarian shepherd's pie. They may be slighter harder to find than other lentils, but they're worth the extra effort. Cook, uncovered, until the lentils are al dente (firm and just tender), adding more.
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