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 16g, carbohydrate 79.6g, fat 17 g, saturated fat 8g, fibre 12g, sugar 31g, salt 3.95 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, May 2007.

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  • 06 January 2012

    Tanya commented on this recipe

    Delicious !

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  • 09 January 2012

    Domestic-ish Goddess rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    This tastes delicious and was enjoyed by our vege friends and their children. I think the quantity of potatoe needs to be increased by half again as I doubled the recipe and it only just fed four children and four adults. None of us eat huge amounts and I had served it with plenty of broccoli. Will definately make again.

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  • 12 January 2012

    christine claydon rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Delicious! This has become a family favourite.

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  • 12 January 2012

    Longmead rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Fantasic! as suggested by others added the garlic to the onions and cinamon to the mash, really delicious

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  • 17 January 2012

    Louise rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    made this last week for lentil phobes ~ all plates were cleared ~ very tasty & very filling & will definitely be making this on a regular basis. OH said it was better than normal shepherds pie so it was a definite hit with a very fussy eater.

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  • 18 January 2012

    cocoabean commented on this recipe

    Must green lentils be used? Or could red lentils be substituted instead?

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  • 06 February 2012

    mamma smith rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Amazingly easy, cheap, tasty, healthy!! Ticked all the boxes for a midweek meal!! Will be making this again.

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  • 15 February 2012

    EmmaJane rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Fantastic recipe for winter! Really easy to make and full of flavour! I've made it at least 10 times :)

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  • 15 February 2012

    Sarahni commented on this recipe

    Made this for my Vegetarian boyfriend on Valentines day and it went down very well indeed! He actually preferred it to meat shepherds pie. The Sweet potato is the best part for me! Love love love it!

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  • 19 February 2012

    nisha83 rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Really nice vege meal (and I enjoy meat so that is high praise indeed!). I also added a bit of Quorn mince to give it another dimension- fantastic!

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  • 19 February 2012

    AmyMay commented on this recipe

    Amazing dish! Simple ingredients combine to create a result that exceeds expectations. A really lovely dish for winter.

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  • 21 February 2012

    secrisp rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Very tasty, especially the following day. I found it was a bit watery so did reduce it for about 10 mins longer than in the recipe, and also although I cut the carrots to sugar cube size and cooked them for an extra 10 mins, they were still a bit on the crunchy side. Better the following day. Will definitely be making this again!

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  • 22 February 2012

    SamanthaM rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Excellent family meal, made this a few times, although my daughter (4) prefered this with normal white potatoes. Made extra mash and this meal lasted 3 of us 2 days. Simmered the mixture for another 20 mins carrots a little too hard.

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  • 22 February 2012

    Rachey83 rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Lovely recipe (although the texture is quite mushy). My toddler loves it and he's very fussy.

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  • 23 February 2012

    JoBo rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    I didn't have lentils so i used beans instead and left out the wine but it came out great and tasted delicious and so healthy which is a bonus, definatly a new staple meal for us.

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  • 29 February 2012

    Fificooks commented on this recipe

    I made this on the strength of all the great reviews and wasn't disappointed. Had half a butternut squash that needed using up, so added that with the carrots. Delicious. My girls prefer it to a meat version, and its cheaper and healthier - Perfect family grub!

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  • 29 February 2012

    Fificooks rated this recipe

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  • 09 March 2012

    Emma-Lou commented on this recipe

    Made this for supper tonight, Hubby & 3 1/2 year old left clean plates!! Very tasty. The mixture was a little wet, but i just simmered for longer without the lid on & it soon thickened up. Just put the left overs with some puff pastry & have made yummy pasty's for our picnic tomorrow!!! Can't wait to eat them now!!

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  • 09 March 2012

    Emma-Lou rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Oops, forgot to rate!!

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  • 12 March 2012

    Pumpkin rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Totally delicious. Very rich gravy-like sauce. Found the carrots a bit too sweet the first time so added some celery & a bay leaf 2nd time around. Also boiled lentils separately 2nd time and there was a bit more bite to them than the canned ones.

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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 16g, carbohydrate 79.6g, fat 17 g, saturated fat 8g, fibre 12g, sugar 31g, salt 3.95 g

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