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Recipe for Sweet Potato Shepherd's Pie

This comforting casserole would be the perfect thing to serve for dinner before going out trick-or-treating, and you know your kids would be full of protein, healthy carbs, and a lot of vegetables!

  • Total Time: 50 minutes
  • Yield: 6 1x

Ingredients

Scale
  • 1.5 lbs . ground beef (or chopped lean beef steak ( I used steak))
  • 2 cloves garlic (finely chopped)
  • 1 small shallot (finely chopped)
  • 1 tbsp . or so olive oil
  • 1 oz can tomato sauce (8 .)
  • 2 Tbsp . ketchup
  • 2 Tbsp . worchestershire sauce
  • cup about 1/2 frozen chopped spinach (or more if you like)
  • cup about 1 frozen peas
  • 1 medium - large sweet potato/yam
  • enough leftover mashed potatoes to spread on top -( I used 3 medium potatoes to get the amount shown (and it was kind of a lot))
  • cheese to sprinkle on top
  • salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

  1. Brown the beef along with the garlic and shallot in the olive oil. Add in the tomato sauce, ketchup, worchestershire, and spinach. Bring to a simmer, cover, and let it cook while you prepare the sweet potato.
  2. Slice the sweet potato into THIN slices. It's easier to eat if the sweet potatoes are sliced really thin!
  3. Next, microwave the slices for a minute or two until they are just a little softened.
  4. Now that they're softened a little, you can use a pumpkin cookie cutter to cut the sweet potatoes into pumpkins.
  5. Remember to save your scraps! You will be chopping them up and putting them in the meat mixture. Sometimes I have people ask me what I do with all my scraps from cutting out cheese and veggies into cute shapes for bento lunches - putting them in casseroles is one of my tricks 😉
  6. Now get out some tiny little cutters to make the jack-o-lantern faces. This recipe serves 6, so make that many jack-o-lanterns so everyone can have one 🙂
  7. Toss the sweet potato scraps and the frozen peas into the skillet with the meat mixture and simmer until heated through. Add salt and pepper to taste.
  8. Spray a casserole dish with non-stick cooking spray. Spoon in the meat mixture. Top with mashed potatoes. Sprinkle with the amount of cheese you desire and salt and pepper to taste. Lay the jack-o-lanterns on top. Cover with foil and bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes, or until the cheese melts. Remove the foil for about 5 minutes more to allow browning.
  • Author: beneficial bento
  • Prep Time: 30 minutes
  • Cook Time: 20 minutes
  • Category: main dish

Find it online: https://www.beneficial-bento.com/2012/10/recipe-for-sweet-potato-shepherds-pie.html