Meat Eating Husbands Love This Shepard's Pie

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Recipe submitted by kmouse, 06/11/07

Meat Eating Husbands Love This Shepard's Pie

Ingredients (use vegan versions):

4 or 5 russet baked potatoes, peeled and cooked
2 teaspoons olive oil
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 medium onion, chopped
1 cup mushroom or vegetable broth
3/4 cup plain soymilk
8 oz. slice mushrooms
1 head broccoli, chopped or grated, stems and all
2 carrots, chopped or grated
2 celery ribs, chopped
1 teaspoon cornstarch plus 1 teaspoon flour
1 tablespoon nutritional yeast
2 handfuls French fried onions

Directions:

I got a version of this recipe from my friend Becky. I've altered it a bit to my own tastes. Her meat eating husband loves it so I figured mine will too. Made it last night and got many compliments from my husband!

Mash cooked potatoes with as much soymilk as you need and lots of vegan buttery spread to make them nice and creamy. Add some salt and pepper and a sprinkle of garlic powder.

Heat the oil in a large pan and saute the garlic and onion over medium heat until soft and translucent. Add the broccoli, carrots, mushrooms and celery and cook until veggies start to wilt.

Add the broth and soymilk along with the cornstarch and flour. Let the mixture come to a boil, stirring frequently. Sauce will thicken up a bit. Season with salt and pepper if you need to. When all the vegetables are cooked, remove from heat.

Spray a 8"x8" baking dish with nonstick oil spray and spoon the vegetable mixture onto the bottom. Cover with the potatoes and smooth them down. Sprinkle the top with nutritional yeast and French fried onions. Heat in oven for 10 minutes or so until top is slightly firm and onions are browned.

Serve with garlic toast or fresh bread. Enjoy!

Another way to prepare this is to spread half the potatoes on the bottom of the dish, add the veggies on top, then spread the remaining potatoes on top of the veggies. Either way it is delicious!

Serves: 6

Preparation time: 30 minutes


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kmouse

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Re: Meat Eating Husbands Love This Shepard's Pie

« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2007, 09:24:38 PM »

This is one of my favorite comfort foods. I made it a few times already and tonight I added some Morningstar soy crumbles to the veggies to add some "meaty" texture. It was very good!


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Re: Meat Eating Husbands Love This Shepard's Pie

« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2007, 03:58:17 PM »

i made this for dinner last night, and it was amazing!!! even my meat-eating boyfriend loved it! Next time i make it i'm going to add somemore veggies.


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Re: Meat Eating Husbands Love This Shepard's Pie

« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2007, 08:51:52 PM »

So delicious!!! I used sliced portobellos and extra mashed potatoes to fill a 13 x 9 casserole, and added a little pepper, savory, thyme, and sweet basil and it was a complete hit! (And my husband loved it too!) 350 degrees was plenty to brown the onions. Thanks, this is going to be a favorite of ours for a long time!!!


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Re: Meat Eating Husbands Love This Shepard's Pie

« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2007, 12:15:19 AM »

Excellent! I am a beginner vegetarian - but this recipe works for anyone. I added fake crumbly meat from Trader Joes and it was great!


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Re: Meat Eating Husbands Love This Shepard's Pie

« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2007, 04:24:44 PM »

ok, this rocks. We aren't even vegan, but my son has a hardcore dairy allergy and I'm sick of cooking two meals, one for us and one for him. A girlfriend stopped by while this was cooking and had a piece with me and she loved it. She's not vegan either! hahaha!

Highly, highly suggest this recipe.


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Re: Meat Eating Husbands Love This Shepard's Pie

« Reply #6 on: August 20, 2007, 05:42:09 PM »

Wow! This was great. My husband made it for me in one of his everlasting attemptes to vegetarian-ize me. He definately won the battle, even if he's not winning the war!


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Re: Meat Eating Husbands Love This Shepard's Pie

« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2007, 09:32:11 AM »

I made this dish yesterday and it was excellent.Hubby loves it and wants to have it again. Definitely a winner!


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Re: Meat Eating Husbands Love This Shepard's Pie

« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2007, 03:01:33 PM »

This recipe definitely lives up to its name! I added a can of kidney beans to round out the meal in terms of protein, and it was excellent. Next time I will probably also add some corn, and maybe TVP.


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Re: Meat Eating Husbands Love This Shepard's Pie

« Reply #9 on: September 18, 2007, 03:35:29 PM »

Yummy!

I cheated the second time and used three packages of instant potatoes, still turned out great.


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Re: Meat Eating Husbands Love This Shepard's Pie

« Reply #10 on: November 11, 2007, 08:26:36 PM »

This turned out really well. I added roasted garlic to the mashed potatoes (I used red potatoes) and added some homemade seitan. This dish was delicious. I've never tried traditional shepard's pie, so I can't judge it as a replacement, but I thought the meal was solid. I will be making this one again. Thank you.


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Re: Meat Eating Husbands Love This Shepard's Pie

« Reply #11 on: December 31, 2007, 09:34:47 AM »

Turned out well! Maybe I my veggies had too much water in them, but my sauce didn't thicken up as much as i wanted. Will try to use a little more cornstarch next time!


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Re: Meat Eating Husbands Love This Shepard's Pie

« Reply #12 on: February 16, 2008, 12:46:08 AM »

This came out pretty well. I made Rosemary Garlic Mashed Potatoes for the top but I added way too many cloves of roasted garlic so it took over the flavor. My mistake but overall this recipe was great. I'll try it again minus some garlic.


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Re: Meat Eating Husbands Love This Shepard's Pie

« Reply #13 on: April 13, 2008, 02:17:02 PM »

This was overall a good recipe. The sauce didn't thicken like I was expecting it to, which did detract some from the dish's tastiness. But it was still really good and even fine leftover the next two days. Definitely a good comfort food.


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Re: Meat Eating Husbands Love This Shepard's Pie

« Reply #14 on: May 20, 2008, 08:22:50 PM »

Delicious! I did make a couple of changes... I added about 1 cup of cooked lentils, a
heaping tablespoon of soy sour cream, and put the nutritional yeast in the mixture.
I also made a bit more sauce so that it wouldn't be too thick. I blended soy sour cream
in the mashed potatoes too... yum! Thanks for the recipe, I will certainly prepare it again!


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