Easy vegetarian lasagne
This recipe is so good, it’s bound to become a family favourite!
- 60 minutes
- Serves 4


Recipe by: Mixer
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Ingredients
- 2 x 400g tins chopped tomatoes
- 75g vegetarian Italian style hard cheese
- 4 tablespoons tomato purée
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 tablespoons dried oregano
- A little grated fresh nutmeg
- 300g ricotta or cream cheese
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 200g washed baby spinach leaves
- 10 lasagne sheets
- 75g Cheddar cheese
- 1 lettuce
FOR THE SALAD DRESSING:
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
Method
- Turn the oven on to 180OC. To make the tomato sauce, sieve the chopped tomatoes to remove the liquid. Tip the chopped tomato pulp (not the liquid) into a bowl and mash with a fork.
- Peel the garlic cloves, crush with a garlic crusher and add to the tomatoes. Add the tomato purée, oil and oregano to the tomatoes and mix really well. Season with pepper.
- To make the filling, grate the Italian style hard cheese. Put two-thirds of the grated cheese into a big bowl. Put the remaining third of the grated cheese into a small bowl and put to one side for the topping.
- Grate a little fresh nutmeg into the big bowl of cheese using the smallest holes on the grater. Add the ricotta and a little freshly ground black pepper, and mix well.
- Pick off any long stalks from the baby spinach leaves, then tear the leaves into small pieces. Add to the bowl of cheese and mix together with a spoon.
- Spoon a third of the cheese and spinach mixture on to the base of an ovenproof dish. Lay 3 lasagne sheets on top. Spoon a third of the tomato sauce over the lasagne sheets.
- Repeat with another third of the ricotta mixture, lasagne sheets and tomato sauce, then finish with the remaining third of ricotta mixture, lasagne sheets and tomato sauce.
- Sprinkle the remaining grated cheese over the top of the dish. Using oven gloves, put it into the oven and cook for 35 minutes, until golden brown.
- Carefully tear the lettuce leaves in half and put into a bowl to make your side salad. Drizzle over the olive oil and vinegar, and carefully mix together until the leaves are coated in the dressing.
If you don’t have a garlic crusher, you can mash the garlic with the back of a spoon.
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