Recipe: Yummy Shepherd's pie with sweet potatoes

Shepherd's pie with sweet potatoes. Scrub and pierce sweet potato; place on a microwave-safe plate. Sweet Potato Shepherd's Pie Sweet Potato Shepherd's Pie. Classic Shepherds Pie is traditionally made with lamb.

This meal is specially made during St. Patricks but can be enjoyed all year long! Drain and mash the potatoes, adding salt, pepper, and Italian seasoning. You can have Shepherd's pie with sweet potatoes using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Shepherd's pie with sweet potatoes

1. You need of Vegetables.
2. Prepare 1 of onion.
3. It's 1 1/2 cup of celery.
4. It's 1 cup of fennel.
5. You need 1 medium of tomato.
6. Prepare 1 small of zucchini.
7. You need 1 packages of mushrooms.
8. You need of Meat.
9. It's 1 lb of ground beef.
10. Prepare 1/2 lb of sausage.
11. You need 6 1/2 oz of can tomato paste.
12. Prepare of Topping.
13. Prepare 2 medium of sweet potatoes, mashed.

Yes, using boxed mashed potatoes would be easier, but trust me on this one, mashing the sweet potatoes by hand is so worth the few minutes of extra effort! The rest of the recipe is a piece of cake. Or, you know, a piece of Sweet Potato Shepherd's Pie. Shepherd's Pie with Sweet Potato Topping is a family-pleasing, meal prep friendly and an incredibly tasty recipe.

Shepherd's pie with sweet potatoes step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Peel sweet potatoes and cook in the microwave with one quarter cup of water until done.
3. Brown 1 pound ground beef, 1/2 pound sausage, 1 cup of fennel, 1 1/2 cup of celery, and 1 medium onion.
4. Season the meat mixture to taste.
5. Blend the sweet potatoes until smooth.
6. Cut up remaining vegetables including a summer squash 1 medium tomato and mushrooms.
7. Once the meat mixture is cooked to add the vegetables plus one 6 ounce can tomato paste to it.
8. Cover until heated through then transfer to a cake pan.
9. Bake uncovered in a 350°F oven for about 20 minutes then use the broiler to brown the top.
10. Let sit for about 5 minutes so the goodness congeals together.

Shepherd's Pie with Sweet Potato Topping is a recipe you'll likely make again and again! We shared this recipe a few years back at the beginning of our blogging days. It was a recipe I had created for a cooking class. To prepare sweet potato topped shepherd's pie, simply replace the mashed potatoes in your favorite shepherd's pie recipe with mashed sweet potatoes. Or use my easy-to-follow instructions below.

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