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Lentil Shepherd's Pie.

You can cook Lentil Shepherd's Pie using 20 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Lentil Shepherd's Pie

1. You need of Ingredients for potato topping: -.
2. You need 4 of no medium size potatoes boiled and peeled.
3. Prepare 1/4 cup of milk.
4. You need 1 tbsp of olive oil.
5. It's 1/4 tsp of salt.
6. You need of Ingredients for making lentil stuffing:-.
7. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of cooked green french lentil/sabut masoor dal.
8. You need 1 of large size carrot.
9. Prepare 1 stalk of celery.
10. You need 1 of medium size onion.
11. You need 3 tbsp of tomato paste.
12. Prepare 2 of no garlic cloves.
13. You need 1 tbsp of olive oil.
14. You need 1/2 cup of peas.
15. It's 1 cup of pomegranate Juice.
16. Prepare 1/2-3/4 cup of vegetable broth/water.
17. Prepare 1 tsp of thyme leaves dried.
18. It's 1 tsp of garlic powder.
19. Prepare of Salt and black pepper powder as per taste.
20. You need 2-3 tbsp of chopped celery leaves.

Lentil Shepherd's Pie step by step

1. Chop onion, carrot, garlic and celery in small pieces in separate bowls and keep aside..
2. Heat the oil in a pan over medium-high flame..
3. Put a pinch of salt and black pepper in hot oil along with chopped vegetables and keep stirring continuously for 6-7 minutes until the vegetables are cooked properly..
4. Once the vegetables are cooked, add pomegranate juice and cook till it is over..
5. Slow down the heat,add cooked lentils, peas, tomatoes paste, 1/2 cups vegetable broth, thyme, garlic powder, salt and black pepper and cook on low flame stirring continuously for 5 minutes..
6. If the pulses become very dry, mix 1/4 cup broth more and mix well.Remove from flame and keep it aside..
7. In a big bowl add boiled potatoes and mash with the help of masher..
8. Add milk,oil, salt and pepper in mashed potatoes and mix well..
9. Preheat the oven for 200 minutes at 10 minutes..
10. Put the prepared mixture of lentils in ramkins or baking dish and put a layer of potato mixture over it..
11. Bake at 200 * C for 10-15 minutes.Broil the potatoes for two more minutes to make it crispy..
12. Once done remove from the oven,garnish with chopped celery leaves and serve hot..