Vegetarian Lasagne

Method

• step 1

  Pre-heat oven to 200C/gas mark 6

• step 2

  Put butter in heavy bottomed pan over low to medium heat. Add flour and stir for a few minutes. Add milk and simmer before stirring. It will form a dense mass. Add another cup of milk and let it simmer but not boil, before stirring into floury mass. then add all milk gradually and nutmeg into cream-like consistency.

• step 3

  Put spinach in colander, pout boiling salted water till it wilts. Drain and pat to dry.

• step 4

  Break up ricotta roughly. Cut mozzarella into slices 0.5cm thick. Lightly drizzle olive oil over the bottom of ovenproof dish. Scatter a third of the spinach, sprinkle marjoram or oregano, add a third of mozzarella and ricotta, spoon bechamel over and then lasagne sheets. Do all the layers, top with bechamel.