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Originally Posted by becks7  ...Evermont, other than using turkey meat my mind has been trying to come up with some sort of alternate ingredients to use for that pie. When the Irish & Scottish fests come around I'll have to bring those swimming nose clips, it'll be torture. |
OK, here's how I might do it:
Diabetic friendly shepherds pie (untested)
3 cups mashed new potatoes (not overcooked or over mashed)
3 cups mashed cauliflower
6 cloves roasted garlic
2 Tbsp butter
2 tsp salt substitute
1 cup fresh peas boiled
1 pkg (4 patties) Morningstar Farms original Grillers veggie meat substitute
1/2 cup vegetable broth
1/4 cup tomato paste
1 Tbsp fresh rosemary
1 tsp dried thyme
1/2 cup aged cheddar, shredded
fresh cracked black pepper - to taste
Thaw frozen grillers and tear them to tiny bits by hand. Dice potatoes and steam them adding chopped cauliflower to the steamer when potatoes are 1/2 done. Use a non-stick skillet, no oil, to VERY lightly brown the grillers over medium heat - it only takes a few minutes, you're really just heating it up. (it tastes like meat, but there's no call to overcook it). While the pan with grillers is still hot, add vegetable broth, tomato paste, rosemary and thyme reduce heat to med-low to simmer uncovered stirring occasionally. Remove from heat when the consistency looks right.
Preheat oven to 350F.
Mash potatoes and cauliflower together with roasted garlic, salt and butter.
In a buttered casserole dish layer the non-meat mixture, then peas, and potato mixture. Top with cheese and black pepper. Bake for 15 minutes, cool and serve.
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New potatoes have a lower glycemic index than other potatoes. If the potatoes are too much (you know who you are) just leave them out and double the cauliflower. The salt substitute is just a nod to reducing hypertension. I use 75% fat free cheddar just to scale back on calories a bit. I left out the pie crust for obvious reasons.
Apologies to any shepherds pie purists out there - but we gotta do what we gotta do.
