Shepherd's Pie

Ingredients

  • extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 large yellow onion, roughly chopped
  • 4 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 2 tbsp curry powder
  • 2 tsp ground cumin
  • 2 small red or green bell peppers, chopped
  • 1 can 15 oz diced tomatoes
  • 1 pkg 12 oz TJ fake burger crumble
  • ½ cup water
  • 1 ¼ lbs potatoes, halved or quartered
  • ½ cup half & half
  • 1 cup fresh or frozen peas
  • ½ cup grated parmesan cheese
  • salt and peper to taste

Preparation

  1. Pre-heat oven to 400°
  2. Boil potatoes about 15-20" till done
  3. Meanwhile, saute peppers and crumble about 5" in large cast iron skillet, add tomatoes and water, saute additional 20" till soft
  4. Brown onions, curry, cumin about 5", add garlic and brown 1" longer
  5. Add onion/curry mixture to pepper mixture
  6. Blend together boiled potatoes, parmesan and half & half
  7. Add peas to blended potato mixture and layer atop onion/pepper mixture in skillet
  8. Bake 15" then brown in broiler no more than 1 minute or so