With our delicious veggie filled lasagne, try as many different veggie combinations as you like! The veggie and ricotta lasagne is great with our homemade ricotta recipe.
?Serves: 8
Prep: 15mins Cook: 80 mins
Ingredients
- ½ butternut pumpkin (you can leave skin on)
- 1 medium sweet potato (skin on)
- 2 zucchinis
- 3 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
- 1 brown onion
- 1 teaspoon crushed garlic (fresh or jarred)
- Handful of mushrooms
- 1 jar of passata
- 1 can lentils, drained
- 2 cups of fresh baby spinach
- Fresh parsley or tablespoon dried mixed herbs
- 1 box lasagna sheets
- 2 cups or 500g ricotta cheese (try our homemade ricotta recipe)
- ½ cup grated Parmesan
Directions
- Preheat oven to 180°C
- Slice pumpkin, sweet potato and zucchini into long thin slices
- Lay on baking paper (or use a little olive oil to line baking tray instead of baking paper), drizzle with 2 ½ tablespoons oil and roast in oven for 25-30 mins
- In the meantime, dice onion and mushrooms
- Heat leftover olive oil in a pan and cook mushrooms and garlic for 5 mins on medium heat, stirring often
- Add jar of passata, lentils, spinach and herbs
- Reduce heat and simmer till roast veggies are ready
- Spoon a thin layer of sauce into bottom of baking dish (about 1/3 of sauce)
- Layer with lasagne sheets (use 1/3 of the lasagne sheets)
- Add a layer of roasted zucchini and cover with another thin layer of sauce
- Place ⅓ of the ricotta on top in little spoonfuls
- Cover with layer of lasagne sheets
- Layer with pumpkin and sweet potato, remaining sauce and another ⅓ of ricotta
- Add a final layer of lasagne sheets
- Finish with final layer of ricotta (this time spread it across lasagne sheets to fully cover them) and sprinkle of parmesan cheese
- Cover in foil and place into the oven to bake at 180ºC for 35 minutes
- Remove foil and cook for final 5 minutes to get a golden finish on top
Notes
Try different veggies to roast such as broccoli, eggplant and carrots
Try pre-soaking lasagne sheets in boiling water for 5 minutes for softer texture