Veggie shepherd's pie with sweet potato mash

Veggie shepherd's pie with sweet potato mash

The secret to this shepherd's pie’s filling is to choose big carrots so they don’t lose their texture when cooked

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 25 mins

Ready in 45 mins
Vegetarian Freezable

Vegetarian

Method

  1. Heat the oil in a frying pan, then fry the onion until golden. Add the carrots and all but a sprinkling of thyme. Pour in the wine, 150ml water and the tomatoes, then sprinkle in the stock cubes and simmer for 10 mins. Tip in the can of lentils, including their juice, then cover and simmer for another 10 mins until the carrots still have a bit of bite and the lentils are pulpy.
  2. Meanwhile, boil the sweet potatoes for 15 mins until tender, drain well, then mash with the butter and season to taste. Pile the lentil mixture into a pie dish, spoon the mash on top, then sprinkle over the cheese and remaining thyme. The pie can now be covered and chilled for 2 days, or frozen for up to a month.
  3. Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Cook for 20 mins if cooking straight away, or for 40 mins from chilled, until golden and hot all the way through. Serve with broccoli.
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Per serving

531 kcalories, protein 16.0g, carbohydrate 79.6g, fat 17.0 g, saturated fat 8.0g, fibre 12.0g, sugar 31.0g, salt 3.95 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, May 2007.

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  • 01 April 2010

    Cath rated and commented on this recipe

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    Delicious!

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  • 06 April 2010

    HelloKitty rated and commented on this recipe

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    Amazing. Have made this once and it was absolutely gorgeous! Made enough for 4 and it was all eaten up by just two of us! :)

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  • 15 April 2010

    Tracinda rated and commented on this recipe

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    Absolutely delicious! One of the nicest vegetarian recipes I've ever tried. I had lots of veg to use up in the fridge, so also added chopped mushrooms, courgette and a yellow pepper - it was gorgeous! And so healthy too. Thanks for this recipe!

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  • 23 April 2010

    JessicaLeigh rated and commented on this recipe

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    Absolutely delicious! I added two leeks, an extra carrot, a couple of bay leaves and 150g kale and left out the wine. I also changed the topping, I don't like sweet potato, so did a normal potato, swede and carrot mash with a couple of handfuls of freshly grated parmesan and loads of butter. Made 6 portions and had it for four meals in a row because it was so good. Will definitely be making it again very soon. Highly recommended.

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  • 26 April 2010

    Flossie rated and commented on this recipe

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    I'm not a vegetarian but try not to eat meat more than twice a week. My son (age 11) and I loved this although I did make several changes. I added bay leaves, garlic, tomatoe puree and wostershire sauce to the basic recipe. I also left out the water after reading the other comments. The addition of mushrooms and celery was very tasty and I used ordinary mashed potatoe. This sauce would make a very good vegie 'spag bol'. I will definitley use this recipie again.

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  • 10 May 2010

    LizS rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Excellent - needed garlic though, wish I'd read the comments before making it! I did add a splosh of worcester sauce and some mushrooms, which worked well. Too runny, so I reduced uncovered until it had more of a pie filling consistency. Great flavours and the potato topping was really good. A winner - will make this again.

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  • 12 May 2010

    Treggy23 rated this recipe

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  • 13 May 2010

    c.mountford rated and commented on this recipe

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    My brother complained it didn't look very pretty, but the big carnivore himself emptied his plate!

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  • 27 May 2010

    Rebeccah commented on this recipe

    Incredible recipe. Use 50ml less wine though and no water from the lentils, I'd also recommend using a bit of garlic and shallots instead of onions. Great recipe.

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  • 01 June 2010

    Lora rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    I used a mix of potato and sweet potato for the mash. As I'm watching fat intake and my other half's on a low sodium diet, I used Les-kol cheese, Kallo lower salt veg stock cubes and reduced fat marg rather than butter. I also used 100ml of water after reading some of the comments about too much liquid. The consistency turned out fine - topping was a little dry-looking but I expected that with a reduced fat cheese and it tasted decent enough. Although it didn't 'wow' me I found it tasty enough that I would make it again.

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  • 01 June 2010

    Lora commented on this recipe

    Forgot to add that the carrots came out a bit too chewy so I'd chop them smaller than sugar cube size and may also add mushrooms next time.

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  • 11 June 2010

    Linda86 rated and commented on this recipe

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    i absolutely loved this recipe, even in spring season it's still a wonderful dish It has the flavours of a harty lasagna, with the sweetness of the carrot and sweet potato and the crunchyness of the lovely cheddar (i used godminster it's the only thing i could find in the Netherlands) I used dried lentils, still about 100 ml of red whine (i think it's absolutely necessary for the great taste) and no extra water, because i made less of the total i used only 1 stock cube which was plenty. Enjoy!

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  • 11 June 2010

    Linda86 commented on this recipe

    i absolutely loved this recipe, even in spring season it's still a wonderful dish It has the flavours of a harty lasagna, with the sweetness of the carrot and sweet potato and the crunchyness of the lovely cheddar (i used godminster it's the only thing i could find in the Netherlands) I used dried lentils, still about 100 ml of red whine (i think it's absolutely necessary for the great taste) and no extra water, because i made less of the total i used only 1 stock cube which was plenty. Enjoy!

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  • 20 June 2010

    Debbie rated and commented on this recipe

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    I've just made it for the second time and added a few button mushrooms and some garlic, and left out the 150ml of water mentioned in the instructions (as it was runny the first time). Actually it was still runny but I thickened it with gravy granules... delicious!

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  • 21 June 2010

    Mark - Goa rated and commented on this recipe

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    A lovely tasty dish, the green lentils are a great replacement for minced beef.

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  • 03 July 2010

    lalybaba rated and commented on this recipe

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    I love the lentil carrot part of this and make regularly but like ange I prefer with regular potatoes yes can be a bit sloppy depending on how watery your tinned toms are.

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 25 mins

Ready in 45 mins
Vegetarian Freezable

Vegetarian

Great comfort food

Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 large onion , halved and sliced
  • 2 large carrots (500g/1lb 2oz in total), cut into sugar-cube size pieces
  • 2 tbsp thyme chopped
  • 200ml red wine
  • 400g can chopped tomatoes
  • 2 vegetable stock cubes
  • 410g can green lentils
  • 950g sweet potatoes , peeled and cut into chunks
  • 25g butter
  • 85g vegetarian mature cheddar , grated
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Per serving

531 kcalories, protein 16.0g, carbohydrate 79.6g, fat 17.0 g, saturated fat 8.0g, fibre 12.0g, sugar 31.0g, salt 3.95 g

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