Best Traditional Meat-Free Shepherd’s Pie

Traditional Meat-Free Shepherd's Pie
Traditional Meat-Free Shepherd’s Pie

This Traditional Meat-Free Shepherd’s Pie is a long-time coming. Finally a tasty, authentic traditional pie. I’ve been making my French Canadian Shepherdโ€™s Pie for years, and wanted to try the classic. After a few recipe tests, some kids opinions, and a final consensus, here we have it!

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Traditional Meat-Free Shepherd’s Pie

  • Author: Karine K
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 20 minutes
  • Total Time: 30 minutes
  • Yield: 8 servings 1x

Ingredients

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For the Top:

  • About 1 1/2 lb Russet potatoes, cut into cubes
  • Oat milk, to achieve desired consistency
  • 3 tablespoons plant butter
  • Sea salt and pepper, to taste

For the Bottom:

  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 large carrot, chopped fine
  • 1 large onion, chopped fine
  • 2 sprigs rosemary, leaves separated from stems and minced
  • 3 sprigs fresh thyme, leaves separated from stems and minced
  • 4 cloves garlic, minced
  • 8 ounces TVP (textured vegetable protein)
  • 23 cups vegetable broth
  • Soy sauce, to taste
  • 1/2 small can tomato paste
  • 1 bag of frozen peas
  • Sea salt and pepper, to taste

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400หš. Bring potatoes to a boil in a large saucepan of salted water. Boil for about 15 minutes, or until the potatoes are fork-tender. Strain the potatoes, put back in pot and add oat milk, butter, and sea salt and pepper to taste. Mash and add milk until you get the desired consistency.

While the potatoes cook, heat the oil in a very large pan over medium-high heat. Add the carrot, onion, rosemary, thyme, and garlic. Cook, stirring often, until the vegetables start to brown, about 5-6 minutes. Add the TVP and the broth and mix until well combined and rehydrated. Add many generous glugs of soy sauce, the tomato paste, the green peas, sea salt and pepper, to taste, and mix well. Add more broth and more seasonings, if necessary. Cook over medium heat for 2 minutes, until well blended.

Scoop mixture into a large, deep oven-proof dish. Spoon the potatoes on top and spread evenly with the back of a spoon. Top with a nice basting of melted butter or the Nutiva butter-flavored coconut oil. Place in the oven and bake for 15-20 minutes, to brown the top and set the pie. Oh, my. Bon appรฉtit!

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Hachis parmentier sans viande

  • Author: Karine K
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 20 minutes
  • Total Time: 30 minutes
  • Yield: 8 portions 1x

Ingredients

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Pour le dessus:

  • Environ 1 livre et demie de pommes de terre Russet, coupรฉes en cubes
  • Lait d’avoine
  • 3 c. ร  soupe de beurre vรฉgรฉ
  • Sel de mer et poivre, au goรปt

Pour le dessous:

  • 2 c. ร  soupe d’huile d’olive
  • 1 grosse carotte, hachรฉe finement
  • 1 gros oignon, hachรฉ finement
  • 2 branches de romarin, les feuilles enlevรฉes et รฉmincรฉes
  • 3 branches de thym frais, les feuilles enlevรฉes et รฉmincรฉes
  • 4 gousses d’ail, รฉmincรฉes
  • 8 onces de protรฉines vรฉgรฉtales (TVP)
  • 2 ร  3 tasses de bouillon de lรฉgumes
  • Sauce soya, au goรปt
  • 1/2 petite boรฎte de pรขte de tomate
  • 1 sac de petits pois surgelรฉs
  • Sel de mer et poivre, au goรปt

Instructions

Prรฉchauffer le four ร  400หš. Porter les pommes de terre ร  รฉbullition dans une grande casserole d’eau salรฉe. Mijoter pendant 15 minutes, ou jusqu’ร  ce qu’elles soient tendres. ร‰goutter et remettre dans la casserole. Ajouter le lait d’avoine, le beurre, le sel de mer et le poivre, au goรปt. Piler, en ajoutant du lait d’avoine jusqu’ร  la consistence dรฉsirรฉe. Rรฉserver.

Pendant la cuisson des pommes de terre, chauffer l’huile dans une grande poรชle, ร  feu moyen-รฉlevรฉ. Ajouter la carotte, l’oignon, le romarin, le thym, et l’ail. Cuire, en remuant souvent, jusqu’ร  ce que les lรฉgumes commencent ร  dorer, environ 5 ร  6 minutes. Ajouter les protรฉines vรฉgรฉtales et le bouillon de lรฉgumes et mรฉlanger jusqu’ร  hydratation complรจte. Ajouter de gรฉnรฉreux traits de sauce soya, la pรขte de tomate, les petits pois, et du sel de mer et poivre, au goรปt. Bien mรฉlanger. Ajouter plus de bouillon et d’assaisonnements, si nรฉcessaire. Cuire ร  feu moyen, en remuant, pendant 2 minutes.ย 

ร‰tendre le mรฉlange du dessous dans un grand moule profond allant au four. Dรฉposer les pommes de terre sur le dessus, et รฉtendre dรฉlicatement avec le dos d’une cuiller. Badigeonner le dessus avec du beurre vรฉgรฉtal fondu ou de l’huile de coconut ร  saveur de beurre, et mettre au four pendant 15 ร  20 minutes, jusqu’ร  ce que la croรปte soit dorรฉe. Oh la la. Bon appรฉtit!

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Potato and Leek Soup

Potato and Leek Soup
Potato and Leek Soup

This simple Potato and Leek Soup is velvety smooth. Potage parmentier, as I knew this soup growing up, is a simple soup of potatoes and leeks that hits all the right notes. It’s savory and a great base for a multitude of other soups. Personally, I like it just as is, with some chives and crispy potato bits. I have to say that it took me a while to be comfortable with soups that are traditionally dairy-based. I had tried this soup with almond milk and could always taste that little “something”. After harvesting some potatoes from the garden, my first thought was a potage. And this time, I tried it with a can of coconut milk. Total. Revelation. Oh and using a hand blender makes this a breeze.

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Potato and Leek Soup

  • Author: Karine K
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 60 minutes
  • Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
  • Yield: 6 servings 1x

Ingredients

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  • 1 tablespoon grapeseed oil
  • 3 large leeks, cut in half lengthwise and thinly sliced crosswise
  • 1 lb potatoes, peeled and cut into cubes
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 2 sprigs fresh thyme
  • 7 cups vegetable broth
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper
  • 1 cup coconut milk
  • To serve: chives, green onions, or parsley

Instructions

Heat the grapeseed oil in a large soup pot or Creuset over medium-high heat. Add the leeks, lower the heat to medium, and cook, stirring often, until the leeks are soft, but not burned, about 6-7 minutes. Add the potatoes, stir well, and cook for 3-4 minutes, just enough to soften them a bit. Add the bay leaves, fresh thyme, vegetable broth, sea salt, and pepper, and cook, partially covered, until the vegetables are tender, about 45-50 minutes. Take off the heat, fish out the bay leaves and thyme sprigs, and add the coconut milk. Blend using a hand blender, or otherwise transfer to a blender or food processor, and pulse until desired consistency. Serve garnished with chives, green onions, or parsley. Bon appรฉtit!

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Potage parmentier

  • Author: Karine K
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 60 minutes
  • Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
  • Yield: 6 portions 1x

Ingredients

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  • 1 c. ร  soupe d’huile de pรฉpin de raisin
  • 3 gros poireaux, coupรฉs en deux sur la longueur, et tranchรฉs mince
  • 1 livre de pommes de terre, pelรฉes et coupรฉes en cubes
  • 2 feuilles de laurier
  • 2 branches de thym frais
  • 7 tasses de bouillon de lรฉgumes
  • 1 c. ร  thรฉ de sel de mer
  • 1/2 c. ร  thรฉ de poivre
  • 1 tasse de lait de coconut
  • Garnitures: ciboulettes, oignons verts, ou persil

Instructions

Chauffer l’huile dans une marmite ou une cocotte ร  feu moyen-vif. Ajouter les poireaux, baisser le feu ร  moyen et cuire, en brassant souvent, jusqu’ร  ce que les poireaux soient tendres, de 6 ร  7 minutes. Ajouter les pommes de terre et faire revenir pendant 3 ร  4 minutes. Ajouter les feuilles de laurier, le thym, le bouillon de lรฉgumes, le sel de mer et le poivre. Laisser mijoter ร  demi-couvert, jusqu’ร  ce que les lรฉgumes soient tendres, de 45 ร  50 minutes. Retirer du feu, retirer les feuilles de laurier et les branches de thym, et ajouter le lait de coconut. Mรฉlanger ร  l’aide d’un mรฉlangeur ร  main, dans un mรฉlangeur ou ร  l’aide d’un robot culinaire. Servir garni de ciboulette, d’oignons verts, ou de persil. Bon appรฉtit!

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