A veggie cottage pie packed with vegetables and topped with mash. This recipe makes one to serve and one to freeze for another night. Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.

COTTAGE GARDEN PIE

Shepherds pie is a BIG favourite in our house.

It's meat free, but I still call it shepherds pie, shepherdess pie or cottage pie.

I decided to call this version Cottage Garden Pie as it's stacked with vegetables.

I can just imagine someone going out into their cottage garden and picking all the veg they need for dinner, then bringing it in with warm earth still clinging to it.

That's really not me!

The best I do in our garden is a few pots of herbs. Oh well, we can't all be Alan Titchmarsh.

HOMEMADE COTTAGE PIE

This pie is made with a base of soya mince and vegetables in gravy.

Soya mince is also called vegetarian mince, meat-free mince or TVP.

Both my cottage pie and shepherd's pie also include onions, carrots and mushrooms, but this one is absolutely full of veg.

It's a great family dish and a sneaky way of adding extra veg into your family's diet. Are you ready to count with me?

VEGETABLES IN COTTAGE GARDEN PIE

1. ONION
2. GARLIC
3. CARROTS 
4. COURGETTE (ZUCCHINI)
5. PEAS
6. MUSHROOMS
7. TURNIP (SWEDE)
8. CAULIFLOWER
9. POTATOES

HOW COTTAGE GARDEN PIE IS MADE

You start by frying the onions and garlic in olive oil, then you add the carrots, courgette, peas and mushrooms and cook gently before adding the veggie mince, stock, wine and flavourings.

You can see the savoury mince bubbling away above.

The savoury mince is then transferred to two large ovenproof dishes, topped with a layer of mashed turnip and then a layer of mashed potato with hidden cauliflower mixed in.

I popped one dish in the freezer for another evening and one in the oven to cook until the mash is golden.

For more Scottish recipes have a look at my recipe index of Scottish Recipes for Vegans and Vegetarians

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MORE PIES TO TRY

• Mash Topped Chilli Pies
• Mash Topped Vegetable Pie
• Vegan Shepherd's Pie with Lentils and Creamy Mash
• Extra Veg Vegan Shepherd's Pie

Cottage Garden Pie

Yield: 8-10

Author: Jacqueline Meldrum

Prep time: 10 MCook time: 1 hourTotal time: 1 H & 10 M

A veggie cottage pie packed with vegetables and topped with mash. This recipe makes one to serve and one to freeze for another night. Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.

Ingredients:

• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• 6 medium carrots, chopped
• 1 large courgettes (zucchini), chopped
• 1 cup frozen peas
• 5 large flap cap mushrooms
• 454g/1 lb frozen vegetarian (soya) mince
• 1 ½ pints/3 ¼ cups/ 710 ml  vegetable stock (3 or 4 cubes)
• 1 large glass red wine
• 4 tbsp tomato puree
• 3 tbsp HP brown sauce (or BBQ sauce)
• a good grinding of salt and pepper
• 400g/14 oz turnip (swede), chopped
• 1 small or half a medium cauliflower, broken into florets
• 1 kg/1 lb 2 oz potatoes, chopped
• 4 tbsp butter or margarine
• a good grinding of salt and pepper

Instructions:

How to cook Cottage Garden Pie

1. In a large pot, saute the onion and garlic gently in the olive oil until the onion is soft.
2. Add the carrots and cook gently for 5-10 minutes until the carrots begin to soften too.
3. Add the courgette and cook for a couple of minutes, then add the mushrooms and peas and cook for another couple of minutes.
4. Add the soya mince, vegetable stock, wine, tomato puree and brown sauce and stir in well. Bring to the boil, then reduce to a simmer, cover and cook for 30 - 40 minutes until the flavours have combined well and the sauce has thickened. Stir occasionally. When it is ready, season.
5. While the savoury mince is cooking, steam or boil your turnip, cauliflower and potato in separate pans. Once it is soft, mash and season the turnip, then mash together the cauliflower and potato with some butter or vegan spread and season this too.
6. Once everything is ready, assemble your two large pies. First fill each dish with savoury mince, then add a layer of turnip and finish with a layer of mashed cauliflower and potato.
7. Pop one dish in a pre-heated oven (200c/180c fan/gas mark 6) for about 20-25 minutes until the potato is golden and the dish is piping hot. Once cool, pop the other dish in the freezer to save for another night.
8. Serve with even more veg! You are a hero!!!
9. Enjoy!

Notes:

This recipe makes enough for two large cottage pies.
These pies can be frozen after they are assembled.

Calories
428.90

Fat (grams)
16.11

Sat. Fat (grams)
6.77

Carbs (grams)
42.66

Fiber (grams)
7.57

Net carbs
35.09

Sugar (grams)
9.01

Protein (grams)
21.97

Sodium (milligrams)
670.77

Cholesterol (grams)
65.90

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