Shepherd's Pie

The next challenge for the most awesome vegetable in the world was shepherd's pie! I had yet to make mash with mooli before making my first of the shepherd's pies so I did take a bit of a gamble. The main reason for this taking a couple of weeks of development is that we recently moved into a house with an induction hob. Needless to say we aren't getting on, if anyone has any tips for cooking on one do let me know I'm swinging wildly between burning and under-cooking at the moment.

So for this lovely recipe, you will need: a food processor or hand blender, a large glass/ceramic dish a pan for boiling the mooli and a pan for frying the mince.

Ingredients (makes 8 portions)

1kg Mooli roughly cubed
1kg mince
50g Butter
1 onion diced (about 130g)
50g full fat philadelphia
100g Cheddar grated
1 stock cube (veg or beef)
5g Cornflour (can sub for xanthan gum to reduce the carbs)

Preheat your oven to 200 C

1. Peel the skin off the mooli and cube into a pan.
2. Cover with boiling water and simmer for 20 minutes until soft.
3. While the mooli is boiling dice the onion.
4. Brown the mince and add the onion.
5. Cook the mince and onion until it starts to look well cooked.
6. To the mince add the corn flour dissolved in 1 mug (250ml) of water.
7. Stir the cornflour into the mince and allow about half of the water to evaporate off.
8. When the water has reduced put the mince evenly across the bottom of your dish and leave to one side.
9. Drain the water from the mooli and return to the heat to dry as much water off as possibl
10. Blend the mooli in the food processor.
11. Add the butter and blend again.
12. Finally add the philadelphia and blend until smooth and creamy, season if desired.
13. Spoon the mash over the mince and smooth it until even.
14. Sprinkle the grated cheese all over the top (the more the better IMO!).
15. Cook in the oven for 45 min-1hr until crispy and bubbly.

Nutritional Information

Calories  477 kcal

Fat    39.6g

Carbs  4.8g

Fibre  1.5g

Protein   24.9g

Edit: sorry for the repost, I couldn't figure out how to get rid of a MASSIVE GAP that appeared at the top of the original.