Sweet Potato Curry Shepard Pie

Sounds gross, right?! Well, lets just be clear. This was so amazingly tasty! And a great introduction to fall delicious food, but with an ethnic slant. Ever since I moved away from home and now living on my own, I have been cooking more and more often with Curry and Garam Masala. These flavors, with all the others that are similar, are so aromatic and delicious to all the foods that I love. During winter, I enjoy cooking a lot with my crockpot, and lets just say one of the best meals is a curry stew cooked for hours in a crockpot. YUM!!!

Not only is curry among my many favorites, I love this time of year because of the sweet potatoes and yams that are all over the grocery stores! To bake one, cut it in half, and just eat the insides, then eat the skin…Oh, my goodness. Nothing on Earth has tasted that sweet! It’s like eating dessert for dinner. For this recipe, the top is a light whipped sweet potato and the inside of the shepard pie is a mix of ground turkey and root veggies. Surprisingly, the ingredients and directions will seem extremely labor intensive, but it’s really not. Especially once you pile a large portion onto your plate, you won’t even bat an eye lash at the time and sweat it took to make this dish.

Ingredients: 1.5 pounds ground turkey, 1 pound baby red potatoes, curry powder, can of chicken broth, white flour, pound of carrots, bag of frozen peas, fat free milk, butter, 3 large sweet potatoes, 1/2 onion

Directions:

1. In a skillet, heat a bit of oil and cook the turkey until it is not pink. Then, add 1 tbsp of curry and 1/3 cup of flour into turkey. Cook until well-combined (~2 min). Meanwhile, coat the inside of a pyrex dish.

2. Add can of chicken broth to the turkey and cook until it’s boiling. Place that mix in the pyrex dish, wipe clean and add a bit more oil.

3. Cook onion until its soft and brown. Then add peas and carrots to the skillet. Cover and cook until carrots are soft.

4. In a medium saucepan, place potatoes in water and boil. Poke with fork until soft. Remove from water and let dry then cut into quarters and place in pyrex dish with turkey mix.

5. Microwave the sweet potatoes until soft to poke with a fork. Then cut in half and let cool (they will be REALLY hot!). Once cooler, remove from skin. and mash. Add 1/2 cup of milk and 1 tbsp of butter and combine well. Place this mix on top of the turkey and veggies.