Vegetarian meat pie with beans and sweet ...

Pie Recipe This simple vegetarian shepherd makes a great dish for vegetarians and a light, meatless alternative for carnivores. It is packed with the goodness in the form of beans, vegetables and herbs and a delicious filling of sweet potato.

Shepherds Pie usually with minced / ground lamb (cottage pie is made with minced meat) and meat in this dish was replaced with a mixture of beans - choose your favorites - Add egg whites, herbs and tomatoes offer to goodness. The dish is a complete meal in itself requires very little to serve, but if you feel something is necessary, crusty bread and a green salad is an excellent accompaniment.

If you have a vegetarian Shepherd Pie leftover freezes very well.

Preparation time: 30 minutes

Cooking time: 40 minutes

Total time: 1 hour 10 minutes

Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients:

• 900g / 2 pounds peeled sweet potato, cut into large cubes
• 6 tablespoons milk
• 110g / 1 stick of butter, cut into cubes
• Vegetable oil
• 115g / 1 cup chopped onion
• Sliced 115g / 1 cup carrots into small pieces
• 1 clove garlic, finely chopped
• 1 mixed beans, drained, see notes below ***
• 1 can tomatoes, diced, drained
• Broth
• 115g / 1 cup chopped mushrooms
• 2 tbsp finely chopped parsley
• 1 tbsp coriander
• 115g / 1 cup grated cheddar cheese
• Salt and pepper

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 375 ° F/190 ° C / gas 5

• Cook until they are soft sweet potatoes, drain. Show milk and butter in the pan used to cook the potatoes, return to the heat and heat gently until the butter melts. Add the sweet potatoes and mash.
• Season and reserve.
• Heat oil in a large deep skillet. Cook onion and carrot and 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook 1 minute.
• Meanwhile, cook beans, mushrooms and a quarter of the vegetable broth to the mixture of onions and carrots for 5 minutes. The remaining broth, tomatoes, parsley, coriander and season and season with a little salt and pepper.
• Put the sauce in a 8 "/ 20 cm 3" / 7cm glass or ceramic refractory deep and cover with the mashed potatoes. Sprinkle grated cheese over the potatoes and bake in oven for 30-35 minutes heated until top is crisp. golden and bubbly. Serve at once.

*** Use a mixture of canned or cooked beans. If you have not cooked beans, the court will have to start the day before soaking and cooking beans. Or you can just until cooked beans, but much easier for this dish is to buy pre-cooked a can of beans. Select your favorite bean mixture: I like white beans, flageolet, kidney and add texture, chickpeas.

Call the changes with various herbs. Yummy.