Low carb dinner is here this St. Patrick’s Day with our Healthy Shepherd’s Pie recipe. Packed with protein, keto friendly, made with common ingredients like cauliflower, and loaded with all the right flavors!

For this one you’ll need a mixing bowl, a food processor or blender, and something to bake your healthy shepherd’s pie in. If you don’t have a food processor, here’s a link to the one we’ve been using!

Add right into your mixing bowl 1 pound of lean ground beef or turkey (anything over 90/10), 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of black pepper, 1 teaspoon of Italian seasoning or equivalent, and 2 large whole eggs.

Mix all of those ingredients together. I like using my hand to speed this step up.

Inside your food processor or blender add 1 large yellow onion, 1/2 large red onion, and 6 cloves of garlic or 3 teaspoons of minced garlic.

Process or blend those together for a few seconds.

Shepherd’s Pie Mix

Take out a stovetop pan, turn your burner on medium heat, and add in 1 tablespoon of olive oil.

Pour in the vegetable mix that you just made once it heats up and let it cook over medium heat for around 10 minutes. Make sure to keep it moving as it cooks!

Continue by adding in your ground meat mix and cooking that until your meat has browned. You’ll want to occasionally mix everything around to that it doesn’t burn while browning it.

Optionally add in some chili sauce to give it a kick and/or anything else you want to add for flavor.

Mix in 16 ounces of frozen mixed vegetables and continue cooking for 5-10 minutes or until most of the juice is gone.

Take out a baking dish and pour your mix in as the first layer. The size baking dish you use is completely up to you and how thick you want your healthy shepherd’s pie pieces. Keep in mind that the thicker your pie is, the longer it’ll take to cook.

Cauliflower Mashed Potatoes

For the low carb mashed potato top layer you’re going to need 1 or 2 heads of cauliflower (I used 600g total).

Remove the leaves from your cauliflower heads and boil it on the stovetop until it starts to split apart with a fork.

Put your cooked cauliflower into your food processor with 1 table of butter or butter substitute. Process those until they look like cauliflower mashed potatoes.

Evenly distribute your potatoes as the top layer over your beef layer and sprinkle a little Italian seasoning on top.

Put your healthy shepherd’s pie into the oven on 400F/204C for 25-30 minutes. Once your edges start to brown it should be done.

Wash this recipe down with a Protein Shamrock Shake!