Turkey Shepherd’s Pie

Hi, I’m Jasma, and I’m making a turkey shepherd’s pie

Shepherd’s pie is traditionally made with land however, I’m switching up pretty much every aspect of the traditional shepherd’s pie

Except for the structure this recipe is really great if you want to use up any leftover stuff

Why You’ll Love This

this recipe is really great if you want to use up any leftover stuff

Forage particularly after Thanksgiving because this shepherd’s pie is very forgiving to

Adjusting the quantity of ingredients and also what type of ingredients you use to make this yourself

Ingredients

For the Topping

• sweet potato
• buttercup squash
• water
• salted butter
• minced garlic
• a whole egg

For the Filling

• olive oil
• minced garlic cloves
• dried oregano
• ground turkey
• carrot
• red onion
• frozen green peas
• quinoa
• all-purpose flour
• salt
• soy sauce
• unsalted chicken broth

Optional Topping

• Parmesan cheese

Instructions

1. To prepare my mashed sweet potato and squash topping
2. I’m peeling my sweet potato and buttercup squash
3. Also removing the seeds
4. This will be boiled so I’m cutting it up into chunks
5. Then transfer into a pot and fill with water until everything is fully submerged
6. Get this on the stove turn the heat to high and allow this to boil for around 10 minutes until everything is fork tender
7. In the meantime prep the rest of the ingredients by dicing up a carrot
8. Mins in the garlic cloves
9. Also dicing a red onion
10. And finally rinse your quinoa then we can move over to the stove
11. On the stove I have a Dutch oven which I’m just heating up on high So that it’s nice and hot
12. Drizzle in some olive oil and follow with the minced garlic and dried oregano
13. Once that is fragrant we’re gonna add in the ground turkey
14. I’m gonna start by breaking it up ever so slightly and let the bottom get nice and brown before you start mixing it around and Breaking into smaller pieces
15. Then using a potato masher We’re gonna mash this into smaller and even pieces of ground meat
16. Then it goes the veggies we have the carrots red onion and some frozen green peas
17. Give that a stir around and also add in the rinsed quinoa from earlier
18. Follow with all-purpose flour and season with salt and soy sauce
19. For the liquid you can just use water if you don’t have any broth or stock on hand
20. But I’m using some unsalted chicken broth just to add some extra flavor
21. Give that a mix around to make sure everything is well distributed
22. The lid goes on and we’re gonna let this come to a boil
23. Then turn down to medium heat and allow it to simmer for around 10 minutes until the liquid has become condensed
24. Now we’re gonna go make the sweet potato and squash mash
25. This sweet potato and squash should be cooked at this point and just test it by poking it with a fork And if it’s soft that means it is
26. Take that off the heat and we’re gonna strain away the excess liquid and transfer everything into a clean bowl
27. But I like it a little bit chunky for this, so I’ll be mashing it by hand with a potato masher
28. While it’s still warm out in the salted butter minced garlic and a whole egg and makes that until combined
29. And at this point the turkey situation should be ready as well. So just take that off the heat too
30. All right to assemble the shepherd’s pie. I have these little oven safe dishes here
31. So evenly distribute the meat mixture into all of the small dishes
32. Pack that all down with the back of your spoon
33. And finally top it off with the mashed sweet potato and squash
34. I like to distribute things with a ice cream scoop just for the sake of convenience
35. And then just spread it out using a spoon
36. And optionally you can grate on some Parmesan cheese on to the top
37. Then just send this off into your preheated oven at 375 degrees Fahrenheit or 190 Celsius For around 20 minutes or until the top is nice and golden brown

Cooking Tips

• If you want to be precise This is where you would measure out by weight how much of these squash and sweet potato you’re using
• You can also use any type of herbs and seasonings you’d like here
• You can just use water if you don’t have any broth or stock on hand
• You can give this a stir every once in a while just to make sure nothing is burning on the bottom
• You can rice this with a potato riser if you like it to be really smooth and fine in texture
• The temperature of these sweet potato and squash should be at a point where it can melt the butter but not cook the egg immediately so try and find that sweet spot
• Otherwise you can just wait until everything’s cool and mix in melted butter instead

Serving Suggestions

I’m making individual serving shepherd’s pies

But if you’d like you can just put it in one large casserole dish and bake it all full together

There you have your turkey shepherd’s pie

Where the meat filling is balanced out with this slight hint of sweetness from the sweet potato and squash on top

And I hope you too will take this opportunity to put squash in every single thing you cook this fall