Lentil Shepherd's Pie
Lentil Shepherd's Pie

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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.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook lentil shepherd's pie using 20 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Lentil Shepherd's Pie:
  1. Make ready Ingredients for potato topping: -
  2. Take no medium size potatoes boiled and peeled
  3. Get milk
  4. Prepare olive oil
  5. Get salt
  6. Get Ingredients for making lentil stuffing:-
  7. Make ready cooked green french lentil/sabut masoor dal
  8. Get large size carrot
  9. Get celery
  10. Make ready medium size onion
  11. Make ready tomato paste
  12. Make ready no garlic cloves
  13. Prepare olive oil
  14. Get peas
  15. Get pomegranate Juice
  16. Prepare vegetable broth/water
  17. Get thyme leaves dried
  18. Make ready garlic powder
  19. Make ready Salt and black pepper powder as per taste
  20. Make ready 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:
  1. Chop onion, carrot, garlic and celery in small pieces in separate bowls and keep aside.
  2. Heat the oil in a pan over medium-high flame.
  3. 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.
  4. Once the vegetables are cooked, add pomegranate juice and cook till it is over.
  5. 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.
  6. If the pulses become very dry, mix 1/4 cup broth more and mix well.Remove from flame and keep it aside.
  7. In a big bowl add boiled potatoes and mash with the help of masher.
  8. Add milk,oil, salt and pepper in mashed potatoes and mix well.
  9. Preheat the oven for 200 minutes at 10 minutes.
  10. Put the prepared mixture of lentils in ramkins or baking dish and put a layer of potato mixture over it.
  11. Bake at 200 * C for 10-15 minutes.Broil the potatoes for two more minutes to make it crispy.
  12. 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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