Paleo Deconstructed Shepherd’s Pie {Grain Free, Sugar Free, Trim Healthy Mama and GAPS Legal}

Shepherd’s Pie is one of my favorite comfort foods. It has meat, potatoes, and veggies. Shepherd’s Pie is warm and filling. It can be a one pot meal. AND best of all Shepherd’s Pie is EASY TO MAKE.

Want to know something? If you deconstruct your Shepherd’s Pie it can be even easier to make. 🙂

I’ve shared with you all about Trim Healthy Mama before, how it easy it is to follow, and I’ve shared some of my favorite THM recipes with you. But they have mostly been recipes for baked goods, like these Soft Coconut Flour Waffles, yummy and chocolatey Chocolate Zucchini Protein Muffins, and Mocha doughnuts for your next coffee break. So I wanted to share some actual meal recipes with you to show you how yummy and delicious THM is.

Enter Deconstructed Shepherd’s Pie. Super easy to make and you can make it into an S-Helper, or E meal, depending on how you cook it. I prefer the S-Helper version, but both are good. We’ll go over both ways in later on in the recipe.

I used green beans, onions, kale, sweet potato, bacon and hamburger to make my Deconstructed Shepherd’s Pie. For my boys and husband I used green beans, onions, hamburger, mashed white potatoes, and bacon. The bacon crumbles on top were the boys’ favorite. We haven’t done that before when we’ve made shepherd’s pie, but now I think I’m going to have to use it every time.

Paleo Deconstructed Shepherd’s Pie {Grain Free, Sugar Free, Trim Healthy Mama and GAPS legal}

2 pounds hamburger, I get grass fed beef from my in-laws and it was really lean, there wasn’t hardly any fat in the pan after cooking it

1/2 onion

2 cloves garlic

salt and pepper

1 bunch of kale, chopped {you could take the stem out, but I normally just leave it}

1 quart green beans, home canned, or about four cups cooked

1 sweet potato, cubed

mashed white potatoes if you aren’t following THM

1/2 pound bacon, cooked until crisp, cooled and crumbled up

Fat free broth of your choice for E version.

 

Trim Healthy Mama Deconstructed Shepherd’s Pie S-Helper Version

Brown hamburger, onion, green beans, and garlic together. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Cook bacon to desired crispiness, once the bacon has cooled crumble it up. Saute the kale in the bacon fat. In a small saucepan cover the sweet potato cubes with water, bring to a boil, lower heat, and cook until done.

To assemble: layer however you want. I put the kale on the bottom, followed by the burger/green beans/onion, then 1/2 cup sweet potato cubes, and lastly the bacon crumbles.

To make an E meal:

Cook the burger on its own. Rinse it after cooking. Saute the green beans, onion, garlic, and kale in fat free broth of your choice. Place the sweet potato in a small pan and cover with water, bring to a boil, then simmer until potatoes are cooked. No bacon if you want an Energizing meal.

To assemble: veggies on bottom, up to one cup of burger (which is 4oz), sweet potato on top. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

 

If you aren’t following Trim Healthy Mama:

Brown hamburger, onion, green beans, and garlic. Season with salt and pepper. Cook bacon to desired crispiness, once the bacon has cooled crumble it up. Saute the kale in the bacon fat. In a small saucepan cover the sweet potato cubes with water, bring to a boil, lower heat, and cook until done.

To assemble: do whatever you want, using sweet potato or mashed white potatoes. But always end with the bacon on top. It just looks prettier that way.