Vegetable Shepherd’s Pie

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Transform your frozen or leftover veggies into a simple and wholesome dinner for the family. Packed with the goodness of gut-healthy ingredients like sweet potato and lentils, it’s budget-friendly and easy to prepare in advance too. A great meat-free Monday option!

8

Serves

0

Serves of fruit (per serve)

4

Serves of vegetables (per serve)

Ingredients

1 ½ kg sweet potato, peeled and chopped
1 tbs olive oil
1 red onion, sliced
1 leek, sliced
1 stalk celery, sliced
2 carrots, diced
1 cup red or brown lentils, rinsed
1 cup water
1 ½ cups vegetable stock
425g can chopped tomatoes
2 tbs tomato paste
1 tsp soy sauce
½ cup frozen peas
½ cup frozen corn kernels
½ cup parsley, chopped
salt and pepper to season
½ cup parmesan cheese
1 tsp sesame seeds

Method

Heat oven to 200°C. Steam the sweet potato for 20 minutes or until tender. Mash to preferred consistency and season to taste.
While the sweet potato is steaming heat oil in large frypan and saute onion, leek, carrot and celery until onion is soft.
Add the lentils, water, stock, tomato paste, tomatoes, soy sauce and bring to the boil. Cover, reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes. Remove the lid and simmer for a further 10 minutes until thick. Stir through peas, corn and parsley and season with salt and pepper to taste.
Place the vegetable and lentil mix into an ovenproof dish and cover with the mashed sweet potato. Sprinkle with the parmesan cheese and sesame seeds and bake for 20 minutes until golden brown.

Recipe Notes

This recipe is a great way of getting a variety of vegetables in just one meal.

Tinned brown lentils instead of red lentils would also work well in this dish to create a layered texture.

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Nutrition per serving

1340 kJ	7g Fat	2g Sat. Fat	43g Carbs	18g Sugars	12.3g Fibre	15g Protein	449mg Sodium
300 per 100 g	2g per 100 g	0.5g per 100 g	10g per 100 g	4g per 100 g	2.8g per 100 g	3g per 100 g	101mg per 100 g

Acknowledgements

Recipe originally published by Nutrition Australia and created by Sanitarium Health Food Company.

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