Red Dragon Pie

Name: Red Dragon Pie
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 200 g dried red adzuki beans, soaked overnight in cold water, then drained; salt and black pepper to season; 80 g soft goat’s cheese; 650 g potatoes (Maris Piper or King Edwards), peeled and cut into chunks; 25 g unsalted butter; 1 tbsp dark soy sauce; a good bunch of flat-leaf parsley, chopped; 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped; 1 tbsp tomato purée; a pinch of dried chilli flakes; 1 large red pepper, deseeded and diced; 1 carrot, diced; 2 celery sticks, diced; 2 tbsp vegetable oil; 1 brown onion, diced; 1 sprig of thyme; 1 bay leaf

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Vegetarian Kitchen

By Prue Leith and Peta Leith

Published 2019

About

Red dragon pie is something my mother always made when I was a child – it was like a vegetarian version of shepherd’s pie, really comforting when we came home from school. When I worked at the Ivy we put it onto the vegetarian menu, topped with goat’s cheese mash (as here), which proved really popular. Red adzuki beans can be hard to find, but the larger supermarkets usually have them and you can buy them online. Serve with lightly cooked buttered vegetables, or a salad.