I have gotten asked many times “where do I get the inspiration for my recipes?” and like many other recipe writers, it is either from food that I love at the moment or food that provides me good childhood nostalgia.
However, today’s inspiration was nothing less than trying something that has no memory with. My excitement is nothing more than challenging myself to make something completely unconventional to my normal meals.
But we shall say if you have not already tried my other pie recipes just know that I expect nothing less than the best when writing this recipe.
We are taking the Herbnstyle kitchen to Western Europe, a place I have never been to. But just like Western Europe, I have never tried Shepherd’s Pie until this moment and time.
So, today I have a Sheperd’s Pie recipe with curry influence! Get your passport we are going to Europe!
Ingredients
- Curry Sweet Mashed Potatoes
- Vegetable Oil
- Yellow Onion
- Garlic
- Plant-Based Meat
- Mushrooms
- Thyme
- Curry
- Chili Powder
- Tomato Paste
- Carrots
- Peas
- Balsamic Vinegar
- Vegetable Broth
Materials
- Large cooking pan
- Spatula
- Kitchen Knife
- Large Baking Dish
- Measuring cups and spoons
Start by preparing sweet potatoes by using my Curry Mashed Sweet Potatoes recipe.
While cooking sweet potatoes recipes begin to saute diced onions and minced garlic with vegetable oil in your large cooking pan or skillet over medium heat.
Once diced onions are transparent, incorporate your ground meat alternative and diced mushrooms cook until brown.
Tip: for this recipe, I used Beyond Beef plant-based meat to avoid soy and gluten
As your plant-based beef cooks down, season your meat with ground thyme, curry powder, and chili powder.
At this time your meat should be fully brown and have the appearance of cooked taco meat. Now add in tomato paste, diced carrots, and frozen peas and combine over medium-low heat.
After incorporating vegetables, pour in balsamic vinegar and vegetable broth followed with arrowroot powder and mix until the filling has thickened.
While waiting for filling to thicken, add bay leaf, salt, and pepper to taste and let the filling sit on low heat for 5-6mins.
Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees.
While the oven is preheating, prepare pie using your large baking dish. Fill the bottom of the dish with your meat pie filling and top pie with mashed sweet potatoes until the dish is fully covered.
Reminder: be sure to remove bay leaves before building your pie!
Once the oven is full preheated bake pie in the oven for 20-30mins until potatoes are lightly crisped and browned.
Once finished cooking removes from oven and allow to cool for 10min and serve!
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Vegan Sweet Potato Shepherd's Pie
Ingredients
- 1 Curry Mashed Sweet Potatoes
- 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil
- 1 med Onion, Yellow diced
- 2 cloves Garlic minced
- 1 Ibs Beyond Beef
- 1 cup Mushrooms diced
- 1 tsp Ground Thyme
- 1 tsp Curry
- 1 tsp Chili Powder
- 6 oz Tomato Paste
- 1 cup Carrots thinly sliced
- 1 cup Frozen Peas
- 1 cup Vegetable Broth
- 2 tbsp Balsamic Vinegar
- 1 tbsp Arrowroot Powder cornstarch alternative
- 3 Bay Leaves
- Salt & Pepper to taste
Instructions
- Prepare curry mashed sweet potatoes recipe, as written
- In a large pan over medium heat saute diced onion and minced garlic in vegetable oil
- Once onions are transparent, add beyond beef and break down and cook plant-based beef
- Add mushrooms, ground thyme, curry powder, and chili powder and combine with a spatula until beef and veggies are coated with seasoning
- Once combined, add tomato paste, carrots, and peas; mix until tomato paste is fully incorporated on medium-low heat
- Pour balsamic vinegar and veggie broth and mix well
- Once liquids are mixed add arrowroot powder to thicken the pie filling
- finish filling with bay leaves and salt and pepper and allow to sit for 5-10mins on low
- Preheat oven to 375° and grab a baking pan
- fill to bottom of the baking dish with meat filling and fully cover the top of the dish with mashed sweet potatoes until fully covered
- Bake for 20-30min until potatoes have browned lightly
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