Delicious and Easy to Make
Vegetable Lasagna Recipe
This is a very easy recipe teaching you how to make a stupendous VEGETABLE LASAGNA.
YIELD/SERVES: 8
Ingredients:
- 1 lb whole-wheat lasagna
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan
- 1/2 tablespoon dried basil
- 7 oz lowfat goat cheese
- 1/3 cup chopped pitted black olives
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme
- 2 tablespoons minced garlic
- 4 cups prepared pasta sauce
- 1/2 tablespoon dried oregano
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 2 small diced zucchini
- 2 small diced summer squash
- 3/4 cup diced bottled roasted red pepper
Instructions:
- Heat your oven to 375°F (190°C).
- While the oven is heating up mix the goat cheese, olives, oregano, thyme, basil, and the garlic in a bowl then season it all with salt and pepper.
- Spread 1 cup of the pasta sauce on the bottom of an 8″ x 11″ baking dish. Add one layer of lasagna and season it with black pepper. Add a layer of zucchini, red pepper, and squash. Then dollop some spoonfuls of the goat cheese mixture you’ve made before over the vegetables and spread to cover. Repeat the layers till you finish with pasta and sauce. Sprinkle some Parmesan cheese on top and cover with aluminum foil.
- Put it in the oven and bake it for approximately 40 minutes, then uncover and bake for 5 minutes more or until the top browns.
- Let it stand for 10 minutes and serve.
What is a lasagna?
Lasagna is an Italian word for a wide and flat type of pasta. The plural for lasagna is lasagne and it’s believed to be one of the oldest types of pasta.
This Italian dish is made by stacking several layers of thin, flat and wide pasta alternating with fillings of special tomato sauce with ground meats, vegetables, cheese, and other ingediants.
The lasagna is baked in an oven and usually topped with melted grated mozzarella cheese.
NUTRITION PER SERVING: ( g = grams)
- 312 calories
- 5 g fat (2 g saturated fat)
- 58 g carbohydrates
- 14.9 g protein
- 7.3 g fiber
