Martin Shaw's Shepherd's Pie - Vegan Recipe Club

Ingredients

• Topping
• Cooked potatoes for mashing plus olive oil or vegan margarine, salt and black pepper. For a diabetic-friendly topping use sweet potatoes instead of white and minimise the oil or margarine
• Pie filling
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 3 cloves of garlic, crushed
• 1 red pepper, roughly chopped
• 1 medium courgette, chopped in half lengthways then sliced
• 110g (4oz) mushrooms, chopped
• 225g (8oz) veggie mince (eg Fry’s, Linda McCartney or supermarket own-brand) OR 1 x 400g tin whole cooked lentils (250g home-cooked)
• 2-3 tsp mixed dried herbs
• 2 x 400g/14½ oz tins of chopped tomatoes
• 1 tbsp tomato purée
• 1-2 tsp yeast extract (eg Marmite or an own-brand) or dark miso
• Salt and pepper, to taste