Guide to Prepare Vegan Shepherd's Pie in 20 Minutes for Family

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, vegan shepherd's pie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Vegan Shepherd's Pie is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Vegan Shepherd's Pie is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

Shepherd's pie is pure comfort food, and this vegan version will satisfy the taste buds of the vegetarians in the crowd. 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.

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 that.

The ingredients needed to make Vegan Shepherd's Pie:

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

It is a meatless take on traditional meaty shepherds pie (cottage pie) we are all familiar with. This Vegan version is made by substituting canned lentils, mushrooms and meatless ground crumbles for ground meat or lamb and adding frozen peas, mushroom broth, herbs and spices and topping it off with dairy free. 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:

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

It's cozy comfort food to the max! Imagine: a creamy gravy filled with tender vegetables, lentils and scented with fennel and sage. It's still cold and rainy here, so the comfort food continues! 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.

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