{"id":104,"date":"2018-10-11T13:40:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T13:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/?p=104"},"modified":"2019-07-11T12:50:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T12:50:20","slug":"classic-shepherds-pie-without-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/classic-shepherds-pie-without-meat\/meat-free-recipes\/","title":{"rendered":"This week&#8217;s meat free recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Meat Free Shepherd Pie<\/h1>\n<p>No meat meals do not have to be dull and tasteless. Here is a shepherds pie recipe with meat ingredients swapped, shepherds pie is a classic meal in the United Kingdom, it is red meat and vegetables topped with mash potatoes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-107\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/10\/shutterstock_709859995-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/10\/shutterstock_709859995-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/10\/shutterstock_709859995.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ingredients<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>50g butter<\/li>\n<li>2 onions (chopped)<\/li>\n<li>4 carrots (diced)<\/li>\n<li>1 head of celery (chopped)<\/li>\n<li>2 bay leaves<\/li>\n<li>4 garlic cloves (finally chopped)<\/li>\n<li>7L vegetable stock<\/li>\n<li>3 tbsp tomato pur\u00e9e<\/li>\n<li>100ml red wine<\/li>\n<li>500g packed dried green lentils<\/li>\n<li>200g pack chestnut mushrooms (sliced)<\/li>\n<li>1 tbsp dried thyme<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the topping<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2kg floury potato<\/li>\n<li>85g butter<\/li>\n<li>100ml milk<\/li>\n<li>50g cheddar (grated)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Method<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Sauce: heat 50g butter in a pan then gently fry 2 chopped onions, 4 diced carrots, 1 chopped head of celery and 4 finely chopped garlic cloves for 15 minutes. Until soft.<\/li>\n<li>Turn the heat up, add 200g sliced chestnut mushrooms, cook for 4 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Stir in 2 bay leaves and 1 tbsp dried thyme, then add 500g green lentils. Pour in 100ml red wine and 1.7L vegetable stock<\/li>\n<li>Simmer for 40-50 mins until lentils are soft<\/li>\n<li>Take off heat and stir in 3 tbsp tomato pur\u00e9<\/li>\n<li>While the lentils are cooking, tip 2kg floury potatoes into a pan of water then boil for 15 minutes until tender.<\/li>\n<li>Drain the potatoes, mash with 85g butter and 100ml milk, season with salt and pepper<\/li>\n<li>Put lentil mixture into a serving dish and top with mash<\/li>\n<li>Scatter over 50g grated cheese and put in the oven (heat 190C\/fan 170C\/ gas 5) bake for 30 minutes or until top is golden<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meat Free Shepherd Pie No meat meals do not have to be dull and tasteless. Here is a shepherds pie recipe with meat ingredients swapped, shepherds pie is a classic meal in the United Kingdom, it is red meat and vegetables topped with mash potatoes. Ingredients 50g butter 2 onions (chopped) 4 carrots (diced) 1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7,15],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meat-free-recipes","tag-meat-free","tag-shepherds-pie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}