Ingredients List
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Units:
- 200 g mushrooms sliced
- 1 capsicums deseeded and sliced
- 1 broccoli cut into small pieces
- 150 g sweetcorn
- 250 g brown lentils cooked or canned, drained and rinsed
- 840 g pasta sauce oil-free sauce or homemade
- 300 g lasagna pasta sheets
- 1 onion unpeeled
- 2 sweet potato also known as kumara, unpeeled
- 3 garlic cloves unpeeled
- 50 g cashew nuts soaked in 1/2 cup of hot water
- 1 tbsp white miso paste
- 1 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 1 tbsp dijon mustard
Instructions
Instructions
- Steam the onion, sweet potato and garlic in a pressure cooker at high pressure for ten minutes. If you don't have a pressure cooker then you can steam the veg in a steamer over hot water for around 30 minutes.
- Leave in the steamer basket to cool
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C / 350 degrees F.
- While the vegetables are steaming, in a large non-stick pan sauté the mushrooms in a couple of tablespoons of water over a medium heat.
- Stir regularly and add a little more water if they start to stick.
- After five minutes once the mushrooms are starting to brown add the bell pepper / capsicum and sauté for another five minutes or so until the pepper softens.
- Add the broccoli, sweetcorn and lentils and continue to cook for another five minutes until the broccoli is tender.
- Divide the sheets of lasagne into three piles.
- Layer one third of the lasagne in the bottom of the dish. I use 12 sheets of lasagne in two dishes so start with two sheets in each.
- Spread half the cooked mushroom, vegetable and lentil mixture on top of the lasagne.
- Spread half the pasta sauce (one can) over the vegetables.
- Repeat the layering with another layer of lasagne, vegetable mixture and the remaining pasta sauce.
- Finish with the last third of the lasagne sheets.
- Once the steamed kumara/sweet potato, onion and garlic are cool enough to handle, cut off the bottom of the onion and garlic cloves and slip off their skins and discard.
- Slip off the skin of the kumara/sweet potato and discard.
- Put the kumara/sweet potato flesh, peeled onion and garlic, cashews including their soaking water, miso, nutritional yeast and mustard in a liquidiser or high speed blender and process until smooth.
- Scrape down the sides and add more hot water if necessary to get a thick 'cheese' sauce.
- Taste and adjust seasoning.
- Pour the 'cheese' sauce over the lasagne sheets in an even layer. You may not need all the sauce but it keeps well in the fridge for other things.
- Bake for 45 minutes.
If you want a crunchy topping add a layer of fresh breadcrumbs in the last 10 minutes of cooking.
I divide this lasagne into two ceramic dishes - 20x20cm and 18x23cm so I can freeze one for later. You could make a big one in a large lasagne pan.
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