Simple Way to Prepare Any-night-of-the-week Lentil Shepherd's Pie

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, lentil shepherd's pie. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Lentil Shepherd's Pie is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Lentil Shepherd's Pie is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have lentil shepherd's pie using 20 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Lentil Shepherd's Pie:

1. Get Ingredients for potato topping: -
2. Get 4 no medium size potatoes boiled and peeled
3. Prepare 1/4 cup milk
4. Get 1 tbsp olive oil
5. Prepare 1/4 tsp salt
6. Get Ingredients for making lentil stuffing:-
7. Get 1 1/2 cup cooked green french lentil/sabut masoor dal
8. Make ready 1 large size carrot
9. Prepare 1 stalk celery
10. Take 1 medium size onion
11. Take 3 tbsp tomato paste
12. Make ready 2 no garlic cloves
13. Get 1 tbsp olive oil
14. Make ready 1/2 cup peas
15. Make ready 1 cup pomegranate Juice
16. Prepare 1/2-3/4 cup vegetable broth/water
17. Get 1 tsp thyme leaves dried
18. Take 1 tsp garlic powder
19. Take Salt and black pepper powder as per taste
20. Make ready 2-3 tbsp chopped celery leaves

Instructions to make Lentil Shepherd's Pie:

1. Chop onion, carrot, garlic and celery in small pieces in separate bowls and keep aside.
2. Heat the oil in a pan over medium-high flame.
3. Put a pinch of salt and black pepper in hot oil along with chopped vegetables and keep stirring continuously for 6-7 minutes until the vegetables are cooked properly.
4. Once the vegetables are cooked, add pomegranate juice and cook till it is over.
5. Slow down the heat,add cooked lentils, peas, tomatoes paste, 1/2 cups vegetable broth, thyme, garlic powder, salt and black pepper and cook on low flame stirring continuously for 5 minutes.
6. If the pulses become very dry, mix 1/4 cup broth more and mix well.Remove from flame and keep it aside.
7. In a big bowl add boiled potatoes and mash with the help of masher.
8. Add milk,oil, salt and pepper in mashed potatoes and mix well.
9. Preheat the oven for 200 minutes at 10 minutes.
10. Put the prepared mixture of lentils in ramkins or baking dish and put a layer of potato mixture over it.
11. Bake at 200 * C for 10-15 minutes.Broil the potatoes for two more minutes to make it crispy.
12. Once done remove from the oven,garnish with chopped celery leaves and serve hot.

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