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Lentil Shepherds Pie recipe

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Nice little recipe, with fairly common store cupboard ingredients too. Originally from Tesco magazine, don't let that put you off though).

 

Serves 4

 

1kg (2lb 4oz) potatoes

1 tbsp vegetable oil

1 small onion, finely chopped

2 garlic cloves, crushed

200g (7oz) red lentils

600ml (1pt) vegetable stock

2 tomatoes, diced

1 tbsp brown sauce

50g (2oz) frozen peas, (can also add same amount of frozen sweetcorn too)

K"Ooops, word censored!" of butter/marge

Milk

Salt and pepper

1Preheat oven to 190 C/375 F/Gas Mark 5. Cook potatoes in boiling salted water for 10-15 minutes, until cooked though. Meanwhile heat oil in a large pan and cook the onion and garlic for 2-3mins. Add the lentils and stock, bring to the boil and simmer rapidly for 10 minutes.

 

2Stir in the tomatoes and brown sauce into the lentil mixture and simmer gently for 2-3mins.

 

3Add the peas and/or sweetcorn and cook for 2 mins. Season and spoon into an ovenproof dish.

 

4Mash the potatoes with the marge and milk and then spoon on top of the lentil mixture.

 

5Cook for 20-30mins until the potato is crisp and golden.

 

I tend to serve it with garlic bread and just put this in the oven when you're halfway through the oven cooking time.

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My variations-

I make this with Puy lentils as I prefer the texture, its something I cooked as a veggie and still enjoy now (sometimes I think we all get a bit hung up on 'veggie foood' as a separate arm of cooking- good food is just good food!) and I don't put milk or butter in me mash- just run the spuds through the ricer and add a splash of olive oil and some mustard powder.

I've also made it half extra-lean mince and half lentils, and that's super too.

 

If you need to soak the lentils it will say on the packet, but normally no.

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