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Brenda’s Vegetarian Lasagna

  • main dishes

Ingredients

  • approximately 4 tablespoons olive oil
  • 2 chopped onions
  • 3 large cloves garlic, minced
  • 250 grams sliced mushrooms, fresh or frozen
  • 2 green peppers, chopped
  • 2 jars Prego spaghetti sauce, with extra on hand, or one 1.8-litre jar
  • 4 carrots, grated
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 kilogram cottage or ricotta cheese (2 × 500 mL)
  • 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 2 packages frozen spinach, thawed, chopped, and drained well
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt and a bit of pepper
  • uncooked lasagna noodles, spinach or plain
  • shredded mozzarella cheese; quantity not stated
  • Parmesan cheese; quantity not stated

Directions

  1. Heat approximately 4 tablespoons olive oil in the largest pot.
  2. Add onions, garlic, mushrooms, and green pepper; cook, stirring often, for 5 minutes.
  3. Add the spaghetti sauce and grated carrots.
  4. Mix the cheese-mixture ingredients in a bowl.
  5. Use two 9-by-13-inch pans. Layer sauce, uncooked noodles, cheese mixture, sauce, mozzarella, and Parmesan; repeat once.
  6. Bake uncovered at 350°F for approximately 45 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes before cutting.
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BRENDA’S VEGETARIAN LASAGNA  Easy!
approx. 4 tbsp olive oil
2 chopped onions
3 large cloves garlic, minced
250gm sliced mushrooms (fresh or pkg of frozen)
2 green pepper, chopped
2 jars Prego Spaghetti Sauce (have an extra jar on hand in case you run out) or use BIG JAR 1.8 L?
4 carrots, grated
2 eggs
1 kg cottage or ricotta cheese 2-500ml
1/2 tsp nutmeg
2 pkg frozen spinach, thawed, chopped and drained well
3/4 tsp salt and a bit of pepper
lasagna noodles uncooked (spinach or plain)
shredded mozzarella cheese
parmesan cheese
Heat approx. 4 tbsp olive oil in largest pot.
Add onions, garlic, mushrooms, green pepper. Cook, stirring often for 5 min.
Add sauce and carrots.
Mix together in bowl eggs, cottage or ricotta cheese, nutmeg, spinach, salt and pepper.
Use 2 pans 9 x 13. Here’s the layers, bottom to top. Repeat once: sauce, lasagna noodles uncooked, cottage cheese mixture, sauce, shredded mozzarella cheese, parmesan cheese.
Bake at 350 degrees approximately 45 minutes, uncovered. Let stand 10 minutes before cutting.