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Homemade cottage pie (ve)
When it's chilly there are few more comforting dishes to enjoy than a homemade, plant-based cottage pie. Portion sizes relate to a child of primary school age, please adjust to suit your needs.
- Preparation Time: 20 minutes
- Cooking Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 38 minutes
Ingredients
For the pie filling
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12.6 goil
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130 gonion finely chopped
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60 gleek finely chopped
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8 ggarlic granules
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2 gdried thyme
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30 gtomato puree
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100 gbrown lentils uncooked
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50 gsoya mince dried
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300 gcarrot cut into 1cm cubes
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250 gturnip or swede cut into 1.5 cm cubes
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1.5 gblack pepper
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1,100 mlveg stock
For the mash
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1.2 kgwhite potatoes
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50 gplant-based butter softened
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50 gplant-based cheese cheddar-style, grated
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100 mlplant-based milk
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5 gnutritional yeast
Instructions
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Heat the oil and cook the onion and leek for a few minutes until soft.
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Add the garlic, thyme and tomato puree.
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Cook for a further 2 minutes, stirring.
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Add the lentils, dried soya mince, carrots and swede or turnip, black pepper and stock.
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Stir to combine, bring to the boil and simmer gently for 40 minutes or until the lentils are completely cooked. Add more stock if required.
To make the mash
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Peel the potatoes and cut into equal size chunks.
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Place in a large pan of cold water, bring to the boil and simmer until cooked.
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Drain well and mash.
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Add the butter and cheese and fold in until completely combined.
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Add the milk and nutritional yeast and fold in until completely combined.
To assemble
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Put the pie mixture into an ovenproof dish.
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Top with the mash.
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Bake in a 220°C oven for 30 minutes, or until the top begins to brown and mixture starts to bubble up at the edges.
Notes
Chef tip: for variety and extra nutrients, the mash recipe can be replaced with the sweet potato and carrot mash recipe, or simply a sweet potato mash. Cooked peas and/or sweetcorn can also be added to the pie mixture at the point before topping with the mash for added nutrients.
Key facts per serving:
Fibre: 6g
Protein:8.3g
Saturated fat: 1.8g
Other nutrition facts: contains calcium, iron, zinc & vitamin B12
Allergens: gluten & soya, may contain sulphites
CO2 emissions: 0.55kg, very low carbon (A rated)
