You know me. I LOVE my sweet potato recipes.
Tell me you've tried my cinnamon sweet potato chips? Or the out-of-this-world recipe that is the sweet potato & peanut butter dauphinoise?
If you answered no to those questions, and you love sweet potato, i demand that you try them. ASAP.
Sweet potato, lentil & carrot shepherd's pie... but without the meat.
Trust me on this one.
You will need:
- 4 medium sized sweet potatoes (peeled and chopped into chunks)
- 1 large onion (chopped up)
- 2 large fat carrots or 4/5 small ones (chopped into 2cmx2cm ish chunks)
- 1 can (400g) of chopped tomatoes
- 2 veggie stock cubes
- 1 can (400g ish) of green lentils
- 1tbsp olive oil
- 200ml red wine
- handful of feta to sprinkle on top
- 2tbsp fresh thyme (take the leaves off the stalk)
1.
Preheat the oven to 180deg.
In a frying pan, fry the onions until they turn golden. Add the carrots and the thyme to the pan, making sure you leave a few pinches of the thyme aside for later.
Pour in the wine, 150ml water and the can of tomatoes, then crumble in the stock cubes too.
Leave to simmer for 10 minutes.
2.
Empty the can of lentils (juice too) into the pan and simmer for a further 15 minutes or until carrots begin to soften (not squishy).
3.
In a separate saucepan (after you have left the lentils to simmer in 2.), boil the chopped sweet potatoes until you can slide a fork in and outta them pretty easily. Usually 15 mins.
4.
Drain the sweet potatoes and mash them until smooth. I added a bit of almond milk and a little bit of butter to cream it up here.
5.
Empty the lentil mixture into an oven proof dish and smooth the sweet potato over the top.
Season with the remainder of the thyme that we kept aside previously...
6.
Pop it into the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes.
At 20 minutes i took it out and crumbled feta cheese over the top and put it back in for 5 more minutes.
Thyme to tuck in!
MY TIPS:
- Don't leave your carrot chunks too big, keep them to the recommended size so that they cook thoroughly and soften enough.
- Experiment by adding in different vegetables with the carrots e.g. peppers, courgette, mushrooms.
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Mollie xoxo
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