Vegan Cottage pie for babies. Topped with creamy, fluffy mashed potatoes. Traditional Shepherd's pie contains ground beef, which I considered swapping for walnuts, a combination of mushrooms and walnuts. This cottage pie recipe is perfect for all the family to enjoy - similar to shepherds pie.
Plus, it's vegan, gluten & dairy free!
Cottage Pie [Vegan] Is vegan cottage pie suitable for babies and toddlers?
Babies and young children will probably love this recipe, because it's flavourful yes quite soft for young palates.
You can have Vegan Cottage pie for babies using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Vegan Cottage pie for babies
- Prepare 1/2 cup of green lentils.
- Prepare 1 of small carrot.
- You need 1 of garlic clove.
- Prepare 1 of small onion.
- You need Tablespoon of oregano.
- Prepare of Potatoes.
- You need of Baby milk of choice.
- Prepare of Slither of oil.
I would leave out the wine, salt, soy, especially for babies. I would also either use a low-salt stock or use your own salt-free stock. Irish Cottage Pie loaded with kale, spinach, tomatoes, mushrooms, carrots, peppers, minced beef (omit for vegetarian recipe) and seasoned with fresh herbs topped with a special fresh mashed potato topping! This easy healthy dinner is baby led weaning friendly and tastes even better as leftovers! #irishrecipes #babyledweaning #babyledfeeding #vegetarian Of course I didn't grow up eating a vegan cottage pie - I wouldn't have known what veggie mince was if it slapped me in the face - but honestly this is way better.
Vegan Cottage pie for babies step by step
- Ingredients ✅.
- Cook carrots, onions and garlic in oil. Chop thinly and cook until soft.
- Dice potatoes and put on to boil.
- When onions, carrots & garlic is cooked & soft add lentils with water and oregano. You can also add more herbs here to taste (depending on where you baby is in weaning). Crank the heat so the lentils cook, stirring regularly.
- Keep stirring lentils and adding water as necessary until they are cooked. And if you need to walk off and look after your baby turn the hob off. Don’t forget and burn the whole thing.... 🙋🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️😭.
- When potatoes are cooked, drain and leave to cool. When they are room temperature blend with baby milk of choice (breast or formula).
- When lentils are cooked, leave to cool and blend with baby milk of choice. You may also want to add peas for protein..
- Portion for baby together like a cottage pie, with lentils and potato in each portion. Making as big as your baby would like..
- Note on storage. For baby food mixed with breast milk this can be kept in the fridge for 3 days from when the milk was pumped and 6 months in the freezer. For formula follow your providers instructions..
This is also often called a shepherds pie. The difference is that shepherds pie is usually made with lamb and cottage pie is made with beef. Cottage pie and shepherd's pie are basically the same thing when it comes to vegan fare, but traditionally a cottage pie is based on beef and shepherd's pie is based on lamb. But since we're making vegan versions we can really call it whatever, but since we've already done a vegan cottage pie , and we did that quite differently, we've. Meanwhile, chop the carrots, celery, and onion, sauté in vegan butter or oil for a few minutes.