Recipe for Spicy Lentil & Parsnip Pie - serves 4

[Guest guest]

This is from the BBC Vegetarian Good Food Magazine for Christmas - therefore is

a little high in kcals but it is a treat meal

 

Ingredients

 

50g/2 oz Butter (or Vegan equivalent)

1 medium onion sliced

2 medium carrots, diced

225g/8 oz split red lentils

2 tbs medium curry paste (or powder but add a little more liquid, even your own

fresh dry fried spices!)

400g/16oz can chopped tomatoes

2 tbsp tomato puree/paste

650g/1lb 7oz parsnips, sliced (we used potatoes as we had no parsnips, sweet

potatoes would work as well)

1 leek, sliced

85g/3oz vegetarian cheddar, grated

 

Method

 

In a pan melt half the butter/substitute, add the onion and carrots and cook for

5 mins or until softened. Add the lentils, curry paste (or sub), tomatoes,

tomato paste and 300ml/10fl oz water. Cover and simmer for about 25 mins until

tender.

 

Meanwhile cook the parsnips/potato in salted water for 10 mins, add the leeks

for the final 2 mins, both should be tender when done. Drain and roughly mash

with the remaining butter/sub and season to taste.

 

Season the lentil mix to taste and pour into a casserole dish, spoon the mash

over the top, sprinkle with the cheese and grill until golden.

 

for the original recipe

 

PER SERVING - 604 kcals, protein 24g, carb 65g, fat 29g, saturated fat 14g,

fibre (fiber) 15g, sugar none, salt 1.06g

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Thanks, Dragon. Yes, it is a bit high, but as you

say can be considered a 'treat' meal - something

you make for visitors

 

And it does sound delicious - although too fatty

for some!

 

Love and hugs, Pat

 

--- The Dragon <dragonsteeluk wrote:

 

> This is from the BBC Vegetarian Good Food

> Magazine for Christmas - therefore is a little

> high in kcals but it is a treat meal

>

> Ingredients

>

> 50g/2 oz Butter (or Vegan equivalent)

> 1 medium onion sliced

> 2 medium carrots, diced

> 225g/8 oz split red lentils

> 2 tbs medium curry paste (or powder but add a

> little more liquid, even your own fresh dry

> fried spices!)

> 400g/16oz can chopped tomatoes

> 2 tbsp tomato puree/paste

> 650g/1lb 7oz parsnips, sliced (we used potatoes

> as we had no parsnips, sweet potatoes would

> work as well)

> 1 leek, sliced

> 85g/3oz vegetarian cheddar, grated

>

> Method

>

> In a pan melt half the butter/substitute, add

> the onion and carrots and cook for 5 mins or

> until softened. Add the lentils, curry paste

> (or sub), tomatoes, tomato paste and 300ml/10fl

> oz water. Cover and simmer for about 25 mins

> until tender.

>

> Meanwhile cook the parsnips/potato in salted

> water for 10 mins, add the leeks for the final

> 2 mins, both should be tender when done. Drain

> and roughly mash with the remaining butter/sub

> and season to taste.

>

> Season the lentil mix to taste and pour into a

> casserole dish, spoon the mash over the top,

> sprinkle with the cheese and grill until

> golden.

>

> for the original recipe

>

> PER SERVING - 604 kcals, protein 24g, carb 65g,

> fat 29g, saturated fat 14g, fibre (fiber) 15g,

> sugar none, salt 1.06g

>

>

>

>

> The Dragon (aka High Priestess Enchanting

> Evenweave)

> WIPs/UFOs = The Castle, The Green Man, Celtic

> Summer, exchange 70%, Computer Whizz 80%,

> Perfect Pets 16%, Zodiac Cats, Element Dragons

> 60%

> http://dragonsteel.multiply.com/

> http://tempewytch.diaryland.com/

>

> [Non-text portions of this message have been

> removed]

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Pat, we cut down the fat used to about half, used milk to make the mash and

used potatoes instead, this cut the kcals down by about 150 !

 

Pat <drpatsant wrote: Thanks, Dragon. Yes, it is a bit high, but as

you

say can be considered a 'treat' meal - something

you make for visitors

 

And it does sound delicious - although too fatty

for some!

 

Love and hugs, Pat

 

--- The Dragon wrote:

 

> This is from the BBC Vegetarian Good Food

> Magazine for Christmas - therefore is a little

> high in kcals but it is a treat meal

>

> Ingredients

>

> 50g/2 oz Butter (or Vegan equivalent)

> 1 medium onion sliced

> 2 medium carrots, diced

> 225g/8 oz split red lentils

> 2 tbs medium curry paste (or powder but add a

> little more liquid, even your own fresh dry

> fried spices!)

> 400g/16oz can chopped tomatoes

> 2 tbsp tomato puree/paste

> 650g/1lb 7oz parsnips, sliced (we used potatoes

> as we had no parsnips, sweet potatoes would

> work as well)

> 1 leek, sliced

> 85g/3oz vegetarian cheddar, grated

>

> Method

>

> In a pan melt half the butter/substitute, add

> the onion and carrots and cook for 5 mins or

> until softened. Add the lentils, curry paste

> (or sub), tomatoes, tomato paste and 300ml/10fl

> oz water. Cover and simmer for about 25 mins

> until tender.

>

> Meanwhile cook the parsnips/potato in salted

> water for 10 mins, add the leeks for the final

> 2 mins, both should be tender when done. Drain

> and roughly mash with the remaining butter/sub

> and season to taste.

>

> Season the lentil mix to taste and pour into a

> casserole dish, spoon the mash over the top,

> sprinkle with the cheese and grill until

> golden.

>

> for the original recipe

>

> PER SERVING - 604 kcals, protein 24g, carb 65g,

> fat 29g, saturated fat 14g, fibre (fiber) 15g,

> sugar none, salt 1.06g

>

>

[Guest guest]

> Hi Pat, we cut down the fat used to about half, used milk to make the mash and

used

potatoes instead, this cut the kcals down by about 150 !

 

Thank you so very very much, Dragon!!!! Huge hugs!

 

Oh but I DO wish you had said so from the start - no criticism intended and I

know you

meant to give the recipe as you had found it. Good for you. BUT . . . .

 

This is what we mean by 'tried-and-true' recipes here - that they should be

posted as YOU

have made them, without regard to whatever 'original' recipe you found.

Otherwise, you

know, the low-fat or low-cal version hasn't actually *been* tried so we don't

know for sure

if it works (even if it looks as if it should!).

 

So thanks very much for writing in and correcting your recipe. I'l;l; make the

changes and

put it in the appropriate slimming file.

 

Please please PLEASE everyone, don't just copy a recipe here - if you have

changed it,

please change it before you send it here. That is exactly what we want - YOUR

wonderful

versions of recipes from cookbooks and the internet as well as your own

inventions. What

you do IS the new recipe - so let's see that here. We nearly missed a wonderful

recipe here

because it had so many fats and calories in it!!!!!

 

Thank you again, Dragon! I'll fix it up!

 

Love and hugs as always,

 

Pat