Mushroom and Lentil Shepherds Pie
This dish is great with brussell sprouts and carrots on cold winter nights, and can easily be frozen.
Ingredients
- 120g (1/3rd packet) of green or brown lentils
- 1 vegetable stock cube
- 3 - 4 large potatoes
- 1 large brown onion (chopped)
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 green pepper/capsicum (chopped into small dices)
- 2 - 3 large cloves fresh garlic (to taste), crushed or chopped
- 2 tsp garam masala
- 4 - 5 large open mushrooms
- 1/2 cup tomato puree
- nutritional yeast flakes (for topping)
Directions
Lentils
- In a saucepan cover lentils well with hot water, add vegetable stock cube, and simmer for 20 - 30 minutes until soft. Set aside.
Potato topping
- Peel and dice potatoes and cook as usual (steam/microwave) until soft. Mash and set aside. Tip: add a little soy milk when mashing the potatoes.
Pie contents
- In a heavy based large pan or saucepan heat olive oil and add chopped garlic and onion, cook for several minutes before adding diced capsicum.
- Add Garam Masala and cook for a further 5 minutes before adding diced mushroom.
- Stir and continue to cook ingredients for approx 10 minutes, or until mushrooms are soft.
- Add tomato puree and simmer for a further 5 minutes.
- Add small amounts of water if needed.
- Add lentils to onions and mushrooms, and mix.
- Add ground pepper and/or sea salt to taste.
Assemble
- Assemble in a large oven proof dish place the onion/mushroom/lentil mix first, then top with the mashed potatoes.
- Use a fork to evenly distribute the potato, then sprinkle nutritional yeast flakes to finish.
Bake
- Place in a pre-heated medium to hot oven (approx 220C) for 30 - 40 minutes.
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