Skillet Shepherd's Pie

This is one of my favorite meals.

Ingredients:

• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 carrot, chopped
• 1 celery stalk, chopped
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 1/2 lbs ground beef
• 1 15 1/2 ounce can tomatoes, diced
• 1 tbsp tomato paste
• 1/4 cup beef stock
• 1 cauliflower, cooked
• 2 tbsp butter
• 1/4 cup cream
• 1 cup Cheddar cheese, grated, divided
• Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions:

• Preheat oven to 350 F.
• Sauté garlic, onion, carrot, celery and bay leaf until soft.
• Add meat and cook until brown.
• Stir in tomatoes, tomato paste and beef stock.
• Cover and cook for 20 mins.
• Blend cooked cauliflower in a food processor with butter, cream and half of the cheese.
• Scatter beef into a baking dish and spread cauliflower mixture over it.
• Mark surface with fork.
• Scatter remaining cheese on top.
• Bake for 30 minutes.

I usually make this dish with cauliflower, but I recently made a more Paleo version, of this, with sliced green plantains instead. Make sure the plantains you get are very hard and green. They can not be ripe in any way. Fry them in your favorite healthy fat. I used avocado oil to fry mine. The end caloric composition is still low carbohydrate.