'Cottage' Pie
Simple & delicious without meat
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 400 g tinned tomatoes
- 600 g lentils
- 1 onion
- 5 cloves garlic
- 1 celery stalk
- 2 sweet potatoes
- 2 potatoes (baked potato)
- 0.5 tsp paprika
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 cube beef stock
- tomato paste
- salt and pepper
- oregano
- Butter
- Shredded cheese
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200C.
- Peel & chop up the sweet & white potatoes into chunks. Fill a pot with water & wait for it to boil, add the chopped potatoes.
- Dice celery, garlic & onions.
- Drizzle olive oil into a pan, add diced onions, garlic & let them soften & sweat. Then add the diced celery until they begin to soften.
- Add lentils, tomatoes & into the pan stir until thoroughly mixed. Add tomato paste, oregano, stock cube, salt & pepper.
- Check the potatoes - poke the chunks with a fork. If the fork goes through. Turn off the heat & drain the potatoes. Mash up the softened potatoes with some butter, salt & pepper.
- In a baking tray, add the cooked lentil mix, followed by the mashed potato. Spread the mashed potato with a fork. Add the shredded cheese until it covers the top.
- Bake pie until the top turns golden brown, approx. 15 minutes.
Notes
- For this recipe, I was using up cupboard ingredients & used tinned lentils & tomatoes. If you are using dry lentils, then soak according to packet instructions until they are ready. The same with the potatoes! :)
- The beef stock can be substituted with vegetable stock
- For size reference: I used a 24x24 baking tray, and all of the cooked ingredients fitted perfectly.