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Low Carb "Potato Mash" (no cauliflower)

ketointheuk

ketointheuk

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I tried cauliflower last year and then mashing swede for the top of sheperds pie but personally I find that mixng swede and celeriac gives the best potato like flavour! celeriac is 2.2g carbs war and swede less than 5 so well low carb to make! This i made with more than a kilo of both combined and makes a good 8 portions as a side, even more!

NUTRITIONAL VALUES (this recipe makes at least 8 side portions, so this is assuming 1/8th of the recipe)
296kcal 23g Fat 14g Protein 2.5g Carbs (3g Fibre)

Video recipe here:
 
Contralto said:
it seems a lot of ingredients and a lot of trouble and a lot of money to disguise and bury perfectly good ground meat in an unnecessary starch?
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meat? there isn't meat? technically not even that much starch or ingredients since it's cheese, celeriac and swede? are we talking about the same recipe?
 
ketointheuk said:
meat? there isn't meat? technically not even that much starch or ingredients since it's cheese, celeriac and swede? are we talking about the same recipe?
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Most probably not, as I could not see any meat either in the video.
 
ketointheuk said:
I tried cauliflower last year and then mashing swede for the top of sheperds pie but personally I find that mixng swede and celeriac gives the best potato like flavour! celeriac is 2.2g carbs war and swede less than 5 so well low carb to make! This i made with more than a kilo of both combined and makes a good 8 portions as a side, even more!

NUTRITIONAL VALUES (this recipe makes at least 8 side portions, so this is assuming 1/8th of the recipe)
296kcal 23g Fat 14g Protein 2.5g Carbs (3g Fibre)

Video recipe here:
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Thank you very much, just what I was looking for. (and the presenter is cute) !
 
Contralto said:
I think there is a definition difference US to UK for shepherd's pie. Shepherd's pie US is this concoction that we used to have served us in elementary school consisting of a half inch of baked ground lamb covered with about three inches tall of instant mashed potatoes and served on a plate in a large slab. Children would moan when it showed up. Only thing worse was a dish called **** on a shingle, i.e. a piece of toast covered with kind of tough mystery meat covered with a very artificial gravy
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It's easy to remember what meat goes in shepherds pie, mutton that is minced up.

Cottage pie has beef mince in it.
 
Contralto said:
US does not sell mutton normally, except in a couple Asian markets, only lamb. Meanwhile, we have plenty of sheep
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Australia exports a lot of live sheep around 70,000 head at a time by ship. These mainly go to peace loving Arab countries like Saudi and the Arab Emirates.
 
@Contralto - in my part of the UK shepherds pie contains minced lamb. Without it the mixture in the recipe is just a celeriac/swede alternative to mashed potatoes - as is indicated by the wording at the start of the video :wideyed:
 
I’m tired after watching the video

Mixing the suede with the celeriac sounds good, so I’ll give it a go (not sure I want to boil my veg for an hour and risk losing all the vitamins though).
 
I’m sat right now eating mashed celeriac for the first (and probably last) time. I had a fair bit left over and a swede in need of eating so tomorrow will give this a whirl. Got to be worth a try
 
Ledzeptt said:
Mixing the suede with the celeriac sounds good, so I’ll give it a go (not sure I want to boil my veg for an hour and risk losing all the vitamins though).
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The school dinner cooks did not worry about stuff like that, just boil the guts out of it was their method.
 
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