Jamie Oliver's Game-Changing VEGETARIAN Cottage Pie | Jamie's Meat-Free Meals

we're talking about proper hearty delicious meals and this one it's a great British classic cottage pie but this pie is busting with caramelized root veg rich gravy and fluffy mash making it so full of flavor you'll never look back I want a nice large casserole pan on a medium heat so add yourself a couple of tablespoons of nice olive oil and then some rosemary three sprigs is all you want now we're going to do two things the first thing is we're gonna flavor that oil secondly we're gonna make these soft woody herbs crispy and snappy and we'll sprinkle them over the finished cottage pie and it will blow your mind after just one minute remove the rosemary now we can ramp up the root veg by coating them in that lovely flavored oil starting with three hacked up carrots and half a sweet Swede has an amazing sweet delicious flavor it adds so much to a nice cottage pie and then half a celeriac now the celeriac has deep hearty flavors especially if you roast it or cook it in this way in flavored oil it's got a kind of celery flavor it's a bit mushroomy and so many people have never ever tried it last veggie two beautiful washed leeks and you get some amazing sweetness from this what's really brilliant is each one of these veggies taste very different and as we cook them they just get more intense and more delicious but in the wonderful world of making veggies tasting offer edible there's a few little tricks and one of them is cumin just a little pinch of cumin seeds give a savoriness a meteors a depth of flavor that's phenomenal and here's the thing right when you're clever about how you cook these veggies just like you would mean right when you respect it you can get comforting big deep sort of sumptuous flavors that you're gonna love as that cooks for 30 minutes kick off your mash by boiling 1.2 kilos of potatoes in salted water now I want to show you an epic gravy to this cottage pie pop 10 grams of dried porcini mushrooms in a blender with 600 milliliters of boiling water and leave to infuse course when you dry things like mushrooms the depth of flavor that you're gonna get is amazing then add 1 red onion plus a teaspoon of Marmite or Vegemite a great cheat to get savory seasoning that little bit will make all the difference and then three tablespoons of tomato puree give it a whiz but the best bit of this gravy is already in the pan with sticky bits galore on the bottom that's caramelization and the minute this hits the pan it will start the glazing the sticky bits that's gonna really give it flavor and make incredible gravy now my final ingredient with tin of lentils and the brilliant thing about lentils is they will cook away to nothing they'll thicken it slightly to make it wonderfully meaty loosen with water and let it cook down for 20 minutes then mash the spuds with butter seasoning a milk before topping your cottage pie so just use a fork to let it rain random chunks of spuds you wait this is gonna be good whack in the oven for 30 minutes at 190 degrees Celsius or 375 degrees Fahrenheit and that nega gravy will turn this meat-free cottage pie into a deep hearty dinner look at that that my friends is a beautiful thing and don't forget we had these little crispy bits of rosemary proper delicious food absolutely bloomin gorgeous come on you

Channel: Channel 4 Food

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Length: 4min 18sec (258 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 11 2019