Your grandmother used to use Shepherd's Pie as a way to use up leftovers and mask poorer quality meat. Not this recipe. Bypassed are the heavy cream, fatty meat and previously cooked vegetables of yesteryear. In their place are fresh local ingredients; farmers' market vegetables/herbs, local dairy milk and grass-fed top quality beef /lamb (or soy for our vegetarian followers). The result is a Shepherd's Pie rich in flavors and healthy to eat and still easy to make.
Ingredients
4 tsp canola oil
12 oz meat (ground beef or
lamb) or soy crumbles
1¼2 cup chopped onion
2-4 cups vegetables (diced car-
rots, peas, corn, diced turnip -
your choice)
1-2 cups diced tomatoes
1 tsp crushed garlic
1 tsp dried oregano
4 medium potatoes, microwave
cooked and sliced
1 cup farm fresh milk (skim for
super healthy, 2% good,
whole/cream-indulgent)
1¼4 cup Hard Rock (or cheddar)
Cheese, crumbled
Directions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a skillet, add oil over medium heat and brown the meat (soy). Add onion and vegetables stirring them with the meat until just tender. Stir in diced tomatoes and add garlic/oregano and cook five minutes more. Turn mixture into baking dish or divide into four individual baking dishes (Spraying baking dishes lightly with canola spray before putting mixture in will make clean-up easier). In a bowl, mash microwaved potatoes with the milk. Cover the meat (soy) mixture/s with the potato and sprinkle cheese on top. Bake 10 - 15 minutes and cheese is brown and bubbling. Serves four.
I highly recommend a trip on Saturday (9 a.m. - 1 p.m.) to the Saratoga Springs Farmers' Market (Salvation Army Building on Woodlawn Ave) to get the freshest and tastiest of ingredients. Plus there is music to shop by and fresh ground coffee to get you smiling.
4 tsp canola oil
12 oz meat (ground beef or
lamb) or soy crumbles
1¼2 cup chopped onion
2-4 cups vegetables (diced car-
rots, peas, corn, diced turnip -
your choice)
1-2 cups diced tomatoes
1 tsp crushed garlic
1 tsp dried oregano
4 medium potatoes, microwave
cooked and sliced
1 cup farm fresh milk (skim for
super healthy, 2% good,
whole/cream-indulgent)
1¼4 cup Hard Rock (or cheddar)
Cheese, crumbled
Directions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a skillet, add oil over medium heat and brown the meat (soy). Add onion and vegetables stirring them with the meat until just tender. Stir in diced tomatoes and add garlic/oregano and cook five minutes more. Turn mixture into baking dish or divide into four individual baking dishes (Spraying baking dishes lightly with canola spray before putting mixture in will make clean-up easier). In a bowl, mash microwaved potatoes with the milk. Cover the meat (soy) mixture/s with the potato and sprinkle cheese on top. Bake 10 - 15 minutes and cheese is brown and bubbling. Serves four.
I highly recommend a trip on Saturday (9 a.m. - 1 p.m.) to the Saratoga Springs Farmers' Market (Salvation Army Building on Woodlawn Ave) to get the freshest and tastiest of ingredients. Plus there is music to shop by and fresh ground coffee to get you smiling.
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