Sunshine Shepard's Pie

I enjoyed a cosy homey Sunday yesterday and decided to spend the day reading, writing and cooking, first I made some buns, then I fancied making something savoury..a proper meal..because having thought about it, I haven't got many savoury meal recipes on here, I mostly blog about cakes and sweet things..and if I'm honest, I mostly think about cakes and sweet things too! 

So, here is my vegan version of the humble Shepard's Pie, I call it Sunshine Shepard's pie because the colour of the topping is like a beautiful sunshine and it brightened up my mood after all these grey, rainy April days we've been having. 

So warm up your mood and your tum with this hearty humble pie..

Ingredients for filling

2 cups red lentils

2 cups water

veg stock

1 tin organic baked beans

half a red pepper

half a yellow pepper

1 clove garlic

1 onion

2 tbsp olive oil

salt to taste

1 tsp rosemary

1 tsp sage

1 tbsp tomato purée 

Ingredients for the topping

1 butternut squash (or sweet potato) peeled and chopped

2 - 3 carrots chopped

1 tbsp soya marg

sprinkle of salt

Method

Firstly fry the onion and garlic in the olive oil and herbs for 5mins, then add the red and yellow peppers, add lentils, water and veg stock, bring to boil then simmer, add tomato purée and the baked beans and simmer for 30 mins.

As this is simmering peel and chop the butternut squash (or sweet potato) and carrots and bring to boil in a pan, when soft, add soya marg and salt and mash until thy has..a mash..a beautiful coloured one too!

Then transfer to a pie dish and warm in the oven a little if you wish, or enjoy straight away!

Goes well with some green veggies..like broccoli and spinach..and sprouts..if you like em!

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This is lovely topped with yeast flakes too..giving a great nutty, cheesy flavour. Here's the one I used... 

 Yeast flakes give an amazing flavour to savoury dishes and are a great source of vitamin B12, I got addicted to sprinkling these on almost everything I ate whilst I was in Glastonbury, even once contemplating sprinkling some on my porridge! Still yet to try that though..