Recipe

Mean Veggie Lasagne Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Zoetheunicorn / All my dishes 1 year ago Even my carnivore brother devoured this. Mean veggie lasagne is WAY better the next day. Prep:60m Cook:20m Servings:6	Zoetheunico
	vegetarian lasagne pasta lowfat lowfat

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Ingredients

1/4 cup dry red lentils

1 brown onion, chopped

1 clove garlic, minced

1 small stick cellery, sliced

1 zucchini, sliced

1/2 red capsicum/ bell pepper, chopped

1 can chopped tomatoes

2 Tbsp tomato paste

1/4 cup water

1 tsp oregano

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fresh lasagne sheets

200g pumpkin, thinly sliced

80g spinach, chopped

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1/3 cup cornstarch

3 cups milk

1/4 brown onion (not chopped)

**350g ricotta - optional, works ok without it too **

1/2 tsp nutmeg

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grated cheese to sprinkle

Directions

In a small bowl, cover lentils with boiling water to cover and leave to soak 30 minutes. Drain and rinse.

Spray a medium saucepan with oil, cook onion and garlic, then add celery and zucchini. Cook another 3 minutes or so. Add capsicim, keep cooking. ...

Add lentils, tomatoes, tomato paste, water and oregano. Bring to boil and let simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.

***MAKE WHITE SAUCE****

Add cornstarch to medium saucepan. combine with a little milk to form a paste, stir in remaining milk. Add onion.

Heat milk so it boils and thickens, stirring constantly.

Remove from heat. Remove onion, add nutmeg and whisk in the ricotta if you're using it.

Preheat oven to 180 celcius.

Spread a small amount of the white sauce on the bottom of your lasagne dish. Do a layer of pasta sheets.

Now a layer of the tomato mixture (try to get all the zucchini bits in this bottom layer) , then some white sauce, then another pasta layer.

Arrange the pumpkin slices over the pasta sheet, then more tomato mixture, then the spinach, then some white sauce.

Another pasta sheet, then the remaining tomato mixture, and the rest of the white sauce. Top with grated cheese and bake for about 20 minutes or so.

serve with garden salad.

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Comments

misslizzi 1 year ago said:
Wow! What an interesting array of vegetables. Never woulda thought of adding lentils or pumpkin to a lasagne. This looks terrific!

lacrenshaw 1 year ago said:
Simply lovely, zoe! My thanks to you and also my 5.
Lorraine

leonora5 1 year ago said:
Fantastic! I'm gonna love this!

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