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Spiced Cauliflower Shepard's Pie

Mar 28, 2025

Ingredients

 

1 cauliflower head

A handful of potatoes

1 white onion 

Olive oil

Salt and pepper

1 tbsp tomato paste

450g lamb (or beef, or turkey) mince 

1 tin chopped tomatoes

1 tin lentils

30g butter

1tbsp turmeric

1tbsp grainy mustard 

100g spinach leaves, rinsed

 

 

  1. Preheat the oven to 180C
  2. Chop up the head of cauliflower (save the inner leaves) and the potatoes. Boil them in salted water until soft (around 10-15 minutes). 
  3. Slice the onion and fry it in olive oil in a casserole dish. Once soft, adfd in a tablespoon of tomato paste. Cook for a minute, and then crumble in the mince and add the chopped tomatoes. Half fill the tin with water and add this in, and add in the lentil tin including the juice. Add salt and pepper and allow to simmer while you focus on the topping. 
  4. Chop the inner leaves of the cauliflower and add these to the potatoes and cauliflower once soft. Boil for a couple of minutes and then drain, putting them back in the pan. Mash the cauliflower and potatoes. Add in the turmeric, butter, mustard and spinach leaves, season and stir it all together. 
  5. Spoon the cauliflower mix on top of the mince mix. Smooth it over and cook at 180C for 20 minutes, or until browned on top and piping hot all the way through. 

 

This is a one pot meal, filled with meat and veggies so no sides needed. 

Freeze a portion to make your future self very happy. 

 

See the recipe video here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DF5n3IVIfP7/ 

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