I literally just devoured that piece. I'm comfortably full and feel great! The taste was amazing! Could've used some fresh cracked pepper in it though. What is it, you ask? Well, it's leftover tossed together and baked for my breakfast. I have this new Paleo type diet going on. It's low carb/high fat. So I don't have much to work with in my high carb home. Or so I thought! What I made fits in a 9 x 13 dish and is 8 servings. You can make this for a group, or for yourself to have breakfast (or lunch/dinner, who am I to say what meal it is?!). It's already made, it's healthy, you know what's in it, and it's delicious and filling.
Ingredients (seriously, take your leftovers, or whatever you have to put in this, it's a recipe that you decide what goes in it as you're cooking!):
- 1/2lb ground pork sausage
- leftover roasted chicken (whole breast and thigh is what we had left)
- butter (I have no clue how much I used, let's just say 4 or 5 Tbsp)
- 12 eggs (more or less depending on how egg-y you want it, what I used it's pretty equal amounts of everything)
- 1 C. leftover mashed potatoes ( I only had about a cup. It didn't look like enough at first, but was plenty.
- full fat sour cream (remember, this is high fat diet), I used the FUD brand Mexican crema
- 1 C. peas (or any other veggies you want: cauliflower, broccoli, onions, etc...or mix a bunch in there!)
- 1/3 - 1/2lb cheese
1) Brown the ground pork sausage, set in large bowl when finished.
2)Shred leftover chicken (I had about 2 cups or so with our leftover roasted chicken).
3) Melt 2 Tbsp butter in pan (I used the same pan as pork, it was cooked and it's all getting mixed anyways). Then add your chicken and just warm it up. Place it in bowl with sausage.
4) Add the dozen eggs to chicken and sausage. You can add seasonings if you want. I didn't, just in case, but it could've definitely used a bit of pepper. Really didn't need anything else, for me. And I like things highly seasoned.
5) I just wiped my skillet out and added another 2 or 3 Tbsp butter.
6) Then tossed in my leftover mashed potatoes. It acutally looks like a lot in this picture, but it's about a cup, MAYBE a cup and a quarter.
7) Add sour cream (I think it was about 3Tbsp). Mix until combined and creamy. Then set aside.
8) Add peas (or whatever veggies you're using) to the meat/egg mixture.
9) Spray 9 x 13 baking dish with nonstick cooking spray, then pour in the egg mixture.
10) Add mashed potatoes a little at a time over the mixture. Carefully even it out, it doesn't need to be perfect.
11) Add shredded cheese.
Play around with the ingredients. If you don't have chicken, throw in some bacon, or ground beef or diced up pork chop. It really doesn't matter what goes in this recipe, make it your own! Shepherd's Pie is about not having much, and using up the little you do have. So we had leftovers from dinner, why not find a fun way to use them instead of rubbery reheated roasted chicken? Let me know what you put in yours and how it turned out!
If you want to know a couple of the nutritional items, they per serving (1/8 of this recipe):
Calories 341
Carbs 8g
Fat 27g (remember, high fat diet)
Protein 29g
Fiber 1g
Sugar 2g
