Description
Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Refined Sugar Free
This is the BEST shepherds pie recipe. It is everything you love about this favorite fall comfort food, made healthier using a sweet potato pumpkin blend topping, and a lean ground turkey filling made with extra veggies and bone broth. It is satisfying yet guilt free!
Ingredients
Topping:
- 2 medium sweet potatoes
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- 2 tbsp cashew milk
- 1/2 tsp chili powder
Filling:
- 2 lb lean ground turkey
- 1 yellow onion – diced
- 1 cup diced mushroom
- 1 cup frozen veggie mix (I used peas and carrots)
- 4 tbsp coconut aminos
- 3.5 tbsp tomato paste
- 1/2 cup bone broth ( I like Bonafide Provisions)
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp paprika
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/4 tsp salt
Instructions
Topping:
- Start by cooking the sweet potatoes: peel and chop into small cubes, put in a large pot, cover with water, and put on stove over medium to high heat (can add a tsp of salt if you want). Bring to a boil and then reduce to simmer, cover and allow to cook until potatoes are soft (20-30 minutes, you can test by sticking a fork in them).
- Drain and mash with a potato masher.
- Add pumpkin puree, milk, and chili powder and mash until combined.
- Set aside until it is time to cover filling.
Filling:
- In your cast iron- cook mushroom and onion with a little salt and pepper
- Add turkey and all filling spices and cook over medium heat.
- When turkey is almost done, add veggies.
- Once turkey is fully cooked add tomato paste, coconut aminos, and bone broth.
- Simmer about 5 minutes to allow flavors to combine and moisture to mostly cook off.
- Flatten evenly in cast iron.
- Once filling is done and evenly spread throughout the cast iron, spread topping over it.
- Bake in oven at 350F until topping is golden brown – about 20 minutes.
Notes
You can also make this a strictly sweet potato shepherds pie. Simply omit the pumpkin puree in the topping and add one more sweet potato so you are sure to have enough!
I want to reiterate in case you didn’t read above 🙂 the cast iron I used was a 12 inch. If you don’t have one that is okay. Cook everything on the stove and transfer to a baking dish. If it is much smaller, I would recommend halving the filling.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 40 minutes
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/6 of pan