Vegetable Lasagne
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Vegetable mix can be made the day before
- Easy
- Serves 6
Ingredients
- 2 large red onions finely chopped
- 4 cloves of garlic finely chopped or crushed
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 350g mushrooms finely chopped
- 1 each of red, green and orange peppers
- 2 courgettes peeled and chopped in to small chunks
- 3 aubergines, 1 chopped in to small chunks, 2 sliced long ways
- 2 400g tin tomatoes
- 1 tspn cumin
- 2 tspn paprika
- Squirt of tomato purée 2-3tbspns
- 3 tspn Worcestershire sauce or vegetarian equevelant
- I tspn tobasco sauce
- 2 tspn soft brown sugar
- I pint of water
- Lasagne pasta sheets
Cheese sauce
- 2 large red onions finely chopped
- 4 cloves of garlic finely chopped or crushed
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 350g mushrooms finely chopped
- 1 each of red, green and orange peppers
- 2 courgettes peeled and chopped in to small chunks
- 3 aubergines, 1 chopped in to small chunks, 2 sliced long ways
- 2 400g tin tomatoes
- 1 tspn cumin
- 2 tspn paprika
- Squirt of tomato purée 2-3tbspns
- 3 tspn Worcestershire sauce or vegetarian equevelant
- I tspn tobasco sauce
- 2 tspn soft brown sugar
- I pint of water
- Lasagne pasta sheets
- 4 tspn corn flour
- 2-3 tspn low fat butter
- 1 1/2 pints of milk
- 1 tspn mustard
- 1 tspn paprika
- Cheese
Method
- STEP 1In a small pot mix tomato purée, paprika, cumin, Worcestershire sauce, tobasco sauce add a little water till runny put to one side
- STEP 2Heat the oil in a large frying pan on a medium heat add onions and garlic and cook till softened, add mushrooms and cook till slightly coloured, add pot of spice mix prepared earlier and stir through until everything is covered in spice mix, add 1/4 of tin of water and turn up heat till water begins to bubble stirring all the time add peppers and courgettes stir everything until coloured slightly and cook for 5-6 mins add chopped up chunks of aubergines cook until slightly softened, add tomatoes and sugar and 3/4 tin of water stir mix thou roughly and cook until mix bubbles add tin of water cover and turn down heat cook for further 30-40 mins Tip check mixture regularly stirring and adding more water if nessecary
- STEP 3While vegetable mix is cooking get a small bowl add corn flour to a little milk melt butter or low fat equevelant in a seperate sauce pan add rest of the milk and bring to boil, once boiled remove from heat and and corn flour mix stirring continuously once thickened add grated cheese and mix till smooth add paprika and mustard and stir once again
- STEP 4In a large baking tray or oven proof dish layer the bottom with aubergine slices then spoon over vegetable mix to completly cover them Lay pasta sheets then cover them with cheese sauce mix add another layer of aubergines and vegetable mix lay pasta sheets and another cheese sauce mix Finally sprinkle cheese over the top Cook in oven gas mark 4 for 30-40 mins or until golden and crispy
