Sheep’s Pie … Easy!
A Vegan Take on Shepherd’s Pie… Vegan, of course!
Comfort Food
Ingredients (serves 2 large portions, adjust as needed):
- 2 pounds Potatoes, peeled and cubed
- 2 cups Baby Carrots, halved
- 1 can Chick Peas
- Optional: Impossible Sausage Brats (2, slice as coins) or vegan meat sub
- ½ large Onion, sliced
- 2-3 cloves garlic, diced
- 1 cup warm water
- 2 tsp Better than Bouillon (or your favorite homemade or store bought stock and omit water)
- Green Peas, frozen is fine (1 bag lasts a while)
- Vegan Butter
- Flour (Gluten Free works GREAT)
- Salt, Pepper to taste
Method
IF YOU HAVE A STEAMER POT – makes things easier. If not, improvise
PRE HEAT OVEN to 420f
Boil water sufficient to cover potatoes plus 2 inches. Add salt and potatoes. Add steamer pot lid – and put carrots, chick peas, and impossible sausage (if using) in the steamer basket. Add lid. Boil about 15 minutes or until potatoes are fork-soft.
In a separate pan, toward the end of the 15 minute potato boil, sauté garlic and onions in olive oil until translucent.
When potatoes are done, add the carrots, chick peas, and impossible sausage (if using) to the onions and continue to sauté for 1-2 minutes.
Add 1-1.5 cups broth or prepared better-than-Bouillon made with water
Stir just to mix in.
Add 2 tbsp (give or take) of flour to thicken. Continue to cook on medium to medium high heat.
Once you’re satisfied with the consistency and the doneness of the mixture, remove from heat.
Drain potatoes, add 1 tbsp vegan butter and a pinch of salt and pepper, and mash by hand.
Then, taking the mixture of carrots and chickpeas and etc., line the lower ⅔ of an oven-safe baking dish (like La Creuset single-servings) or a casserole dish if you are going that route. Either is fine, but single servings from the oven are awesome.
Spread the potatoes on top of each dish… about ½ inch deep, give or take. Lightly pepper the tops.
Put ’em in the oven for about 20-25 minutes – watch that the potatoes don’t burn. Probably want to put the dishes on top of a baking tray to save your oven from unnecessary spillage. This stuff may boil over with goodness.
YOU MIGHT WANT to cut up some broccoli, lightly toss in olive oil and salt and pepper, spread evenly on a baking tray and put them in at the same time (we like them charred).
If you’re doing the broccoli, it should finish at about the same time.
IF you feel like it is cooked, but you’d like more color, you can turn on the broiler for just a few minutes (but watch closely – potatoes burn really fast under a high broiler).
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And thanks for reading!
Buen Provecho!