Not Your Normal Shepherd's Pie

How is that so? Do you like Shepherd's pie? Oh, I used to eat that - one with beef back when I still devour red meat. So, don't be surprised that this is entitled so. Well, I have been open that I don't eat potatoes. One, cause they make me fart a lot and two, there are so many franken potatoes so I haven't really made any shepherd's pie since today.

I've been ill for a few days so I had to ask hub to grab a chicken in the grocery accross from our place. As for the "no potato" .. I had an idea of what I'll use as an alternative - celeriac. I bought it from Ekoplaza since there was a lot back then - must be in season now, too. So how am I going to do this? Normally, they just top the vegetables and meat with the potato yes? I tried pulling out a pie a real pie in a pie pan.

What are the ingredients?

For the potato alternative .. (you may also use sweet potato and other stuff)

How to :

Peel the celeriac and cut into very small pieces, throw with the rice in the food processor then churn till you get that potato texture or that celeriacked rice. Sorry what?

Add zests of lemon to add some fragrance in it.

For the filling:

How to ..

Butter your pan and throw the raisins with the salted and peppered chicken in it. Let cook for 5 minutes.

Butter your pie pan and paste on some of the celeriacked rice or form your mock pie crust. Well, we're not really trying to bake it and let it harden like normal pie crust cause I doubt that the celeriac won't bleed in the heat.

Layer your carrot ...

..followed by your cooked raisined chicken...

.. followed by the broccoli ...

and finally top it with more celeriacked rice and form a bulk like top. How did I do it? With the help of a smooth rice spoon .. works better than a spatula for me.

Throw into the oven, yes I made a bigger one cause it would be handy not to cook for dinner anymore. Let it bake for 15 minutes for the small pie pan and 25 minutes for the bigger one.

While waiting for the pie to bake prepare the sauce.

You'll need ...

I forgot to include one cup of water ... and the goat cheese with garlic is the same one I used in this recipe.

How to :

Throw the butter and onion into the pan and let the onion sweat out for 3 minutes then add the rest. Let simmer.

By this time, the pie in the small pie pan is ready so take it out .. do just that ...

Grate some cheese on it.

Serve warm with the sauce.

I had to scoop the hardened top of the crust cause as I thought the rest stayed soft and mashed potato like [thanks to the celeriac] to show you what it looks like inside. That's after I ate the delicious - sweet tasting crust, it's hard to describe it - it tasted like a creamy potato except for there was no cream nor milk added on it.

Well, I finished it and dug in for more on the bigger one which hubby halved. The other half ... we're having for dinner, though I will have to make that sauce again. It was cow licked since it tasted like a sweet and sour cheesy sauce of a lasagna. I smeared more of the celeriac rice on the pan where I cooked the sauce. Sweating despite the cold weather since we're having storm today, I had to pull the pan from hubby to make sure there would be more left.

How about you, when was the last time you cooked a shepherd's pie? Which meat did you put in it? What did it taste like? I'd very much like to know so please spill.

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Not Your Normal Shepherd's Pie

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