| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 35 min |
| Prep: | 15 min |
| Cook: | 20 min |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 pounds ground turkey or chopped leftover turkey
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 2 teaspoons poultry seasoning
- 2 1/2 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled and cubed
- 1 onion, cut into 1-inch dice
- 2 carrots, peeled and grated
- 4 ribs celery, chopped
- 4 tablespoons butter, divided
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 2 cups turkey or chicken stock (recommended: Kitchen Basics brand)
- A few dashes Worcestershire sauce
- 1 (10-ounce) box frozen peas
- 1 very ripe banana
- A few dashes hot sauce
- 2 cups shredded sharp yellow Cheddar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
- In a deep skillet or a Dutch oven heat 2 tablespoons oil over high heat. Add meat and break up with a wooden spoon, season with salt and pepper and poultry seasoning.
- Place sweet potatoes in a pot, cover with water, cover pot, bring to a boil, salt and cook 15 minutes until tender.
- Grate onions and carrots into the turkey. Add the celery and stir, cook 5 minutes. While vegetables are cooking, heat 2 tablespoons butter in a small pot over medium heat. Add flour to melted butter and whisk 1 minute then whisk in stock and season with salt, pepper and Worcestershire. Thicken a few minutes.
- Stir the gravy into the turkey mixture. Stir peas into meat and turn heat off.
- Drain potatoes and return pot to heat. Add remaining butter and melt over medium heat. Peel and slice banana and add potatoes to the pot. Season the potatoes with salt and pepper and a few dashes hot sauce. Mash potatoes and banana to combine, adjust seasoning. Top the meat with the potatoes. Cover potatoes with cheese and set in oven. Bake to melt cheese, 5 minutes.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 4 servings |
| Calories | 1176 |
| Total Fat | 56 g |
| Saturated Fat | 25 g |
| Carbohydrates | 91 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 15 g |
| Sugar | 25 g |
| Protein | 78 g |
| Cholesterol | 265 mg |
| Sodium | 2155 mg |
Reviews
This dish lives in infamy at my house. I was so excited to try it but one bite and it was clear something was very wrong. THERE IS A TYPO IN THE INGREDIENTS! In her magazine it calls for 1/4 of a banana. This version calls for a whole banana. It tastes like someone mixed a box of banana candy into your sweet potatoes. Just leave the banana out and it will probably be fine. We unfortunately had to throw the whole thing away… it was inedible.
The gravy needs twice the flour and about 2/3’s the stock. Because the gravy did not thicken as intended it overflowed the potatoes when baking…more like a soup now.
Fair recipe. I love the idea of using turkey and sweet potato instead of the traditional shepherd’s pie but this just wasn’t fabulous. Too many ingredients and not worth it!
This has been a go to recipe since it came out years ago. I have made it for large groups and given it to families with new babies. I’ve been asked for the recipe over and over again. I do disagree with the amount of prep time. I like it both with ground turkey and left over chopped turkey. I think the flavors are great together.
I used leftover turkey and my family enjoyed everything below the sweet potatoes. If you’re making this for the first time, I’d just top the mix with regular, mashed sweet potates. The banana and cheese ruined the taste and were completely unnecessary.
After I had bought all of the ingredients, I read the recipe reviews and they were not all that great. It was too late though. The recipe said “15 minutes” prep time and 20 minutes cook time = not accurate. Between peeling and cubing sweet potatoes, dicing onions, chopping celery, and whisking butter and flour, this was a time consuming process. Luckily, my boyfriend pitched in. I did not have Worcestershire sauce so I substituted hot sauce and we also decided not to use the ripe banana that the recipe calls for. We LOVED it! This made enough for two very generous helpings tonight and plenty of leftovers. I think the next time around, it will be a bit easier and I am looking forward to it!
This recipe has a lot of potential, but I found I didn’t care for the sweetened potatoes with the cheese on top. I’ll make it again, but I’ll leave out the banana and cheese. That banana sweetness against the meat and cheese was just too strange. My husband loved the flavor combo. It’s just a matter of how a person’s tastebuds react to it. This is a recipe that people seem to either love or hate.
My husband who is British loved it. It was delicious and I personally appreciate that it’s a healthier version of the recipe than traditional shepherds pie.Also made it for some company. It was a big hit.
We love it, and the different tastes work well together.
Edible, but the flavors don’t work well at all. The sweetness of the potato and banana against the turkey, onions, and cheese was awkward. It smelled delicious which made the taste so much more disappointing.