Gardener's Pie

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 900 g potatoes, halved
• 2 carrots, sliced
• 250 g broccoli, cut into florets
• 250 g leeks, thickly sliced
• 50 g green beans, trimmed and halved
• 75 g butter
• 350 ml skim milk
• 4 garlic cloves, crushed
• 25 g plain flour
• 150 ml dry cider
• 2 teaspoons coarse grain mustard
• 1/4 teaspoon paprika (pinch)

Recipe

• 1 cook the potatoes in lightly salted boiling water until tender. (about 15 mins).
• 2 halfway through cooking steam the carrots above the potatoes for 3 minutes add the broccoli and cook for a further 2 minutes finally add the leeks and green beans for another 2 minutes. if you don't have a steamer pan, cook the veggies until tender but not soft.
• 3 drain the potatoes and mash with the 25g of the butter, garlic and 4 tbsp of the milk.
• 4 in a new pan heat half the remaining butter and stir in the flour. gradually whisk in the milk until smooth. whisk in the cider and mustard.
• 5 place the vegetables in a large ovenproof dish and pour on the sauce. top with the mash and dot with the last of the butter and paprika.
• 6 cook for 35 minutes at 200°c/400°f.