Recipe: Delicious Vegan Shepherd's Pie

Vegan Shepherd's Pie. So flavorful and satisfying that you won't miss the meat! Place the potatoes in a pot, cover with cold water, and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Boil potatoes, mash them until smooth, then add the butter (vegan butter for a vegan shepherd's pie).

Perfect for a hearty and satisfying vegan dinner. The Best Vegan Shepherd's Pie features protein rich lentils with a medley of vegetables in a rich gravy, topped with classic mashed potatoes and baked to perfection for a rustic, comfort food everyone will love! Savory, comforting, hearty, easy to make and delicious - this Vegan Shepherd's Pie pretty much has it all. You can have Vegan Shepherd's Pie using 16 ingredients and 23 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Vegan Shepherd's Pie

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

Meanwhile, chop the carrots, celery, and onion, sauté in vegan butter or oil for a few minutes. Add the mushrooms, and cook until the edges begin to darken. Add the garlic, and season with salt and pepper. This vegan shepherd's pie is the dinner recipe version of wearing a fuzzy sweater and drinking hot mulled cider.

Vegan Shepherd's Pie step by step

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. Then a fluffy layer of Yukon gold potatoes, topped with fresh rosemary. This Vegan Shepherd's Pie has pure comfort in every bite! The filling combines mushrooms, ground walnuts, grated carrots, and onions for a meaty mince that is savory and satisfying!