vegetarian lasagna recipe
Basic Ingredients for vegetarian lasagna recipe
For the red sauce:
• Oil 2 tbsp
• Garlic 5-6 cloves (sliced)
• Onions 1 medium size (chopped)
• Kashmiri red chili powder 1 tbsp
• Tomatoes puree 2 cups
• Sugar a pinch
• Tomato ketchup 1 tbsp
• Oregano 1 tsp
• Red chili flakes 1 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• A pinch of black pepper
For the white sauce:
• Butter 30 gm
• Refined flour 30 gm
• Milk 400 ml
• Salt to taste
• A pinch of black pepper powder
• Oregano ½ tsp
• Nutmeg powder in a pinch
• Processed Cheese 50 gm
For stir-fried veggies:
• Oil 1 tsp
• Garlic chopped 2 tbsp
• Ginger 1 tbsp (chopped)
• Green chilies 2-3 nos. (chopped)
• Veggies:
• Carrot 1/3rd cup
• Mushroom 1/3rd cup
• Yellow Zucchini 1/3rd cup
• Green Zucchini 1/3rd cup
• Sweet Corn kernels 1/3rd cup
• Yellow bell pepper 1/3rd cup
• Red bell pepper 1/3rd cup
• Green bell pepper 1/3rd cup
• Broccoli 1/3rd cup (blanched)
• Salt & black pepper to taste
• Sugar a pinch
• Oregano 1 tsp
• Red Chilli flakes 1 tsp
To make lasagna sheets:
• Refined Flour 400 gm
• Salt ½ tsp
• Water 210-220 ml
For boiling:
• Water
• Salt to taste
•. Oil 1 tbsp
For assembly:
• Lasagna sheets
• White sauce
• Red sauce
• Stir fried veggies
• Cheese
How to make vegetarian lasagna recipe
- first of all, Set a saucepan on low heat, add oil, garlic, and onions, and cook until onions are translucent.
- Add Kashmiri red chili powder and cook briefly on low flame for 10-15 seconds.
- Now, add the tomato purée and the remaining ingredients, stir well, and cook on medium-high heat, cover and cook for 10-15 minutes.
- Homemade red sauce is ready, keep it aside to be used later In the lasagna.
For the white sauce: - Set a pan on medium-low heat, add butter and let it melt, add the flour, and cook the flour for 2-3 minutes, remember not to burn the flour or change the color to brown, keep it light brown.
- Further add, milk in 3 batches and make sure to whisk well while adding milk to make a lump-free sauce.
- Further add salt to taste, a pinch of black pepper powder, oregano, and nutmeg powder, and stir well.
- Now add processed cheese and stir well until the cheese melts. The white sauce is ready.
For stir-fried veggies: - Set a wok on medium-high heat, add olive oil, garlic, ginger, and green chilies, and cook for 1-2 minutes.
- Further, add carrots and mushrooms and cook for 1-2 minutes on high heat.
- Further add the remaining veggies and cook them for 1-2 minutes on high heat.
- Add salt & black pepper powder to taste, oregano, and chili flakes, toss, and cook for 1-2 minutes, stir-fried veggies are ready, keep aside to be used later.
To make lasagna sheets: - In a bowl, add refined flour, and salt to taste, mix well, and add water gradually, combine the water and flour well.
- Transfer the dough over the kitchen platform, sprinkle some dry flour, and knead the dough well by stretching it until the dough is smooth, cover it with a damp cloth and rest the dough for 15-30 minutes.
- After the rest, knead the dough once again and divide the dough into 2-4 equal dough balls. Now dust with dry flour and flatten it with your hands, and further roll the dough with the help of a rolling pin, on a very thin lasagna sheet. make sure to dust dry flour every time you roll to avoid the dough from sticking or overlapping.
- Remember the dough is stiff in texture so it will require effort to roll a thin sheet, if you have a pasta rolling machine you can use that too. To check whether your sheet is thin enough, put your hands beneath the sheet, if your hands are visible you are good to cut them.
- As you roll it in a thin sheet, trim the edges and further cut them into rectangular sheets
- You can alter the size of the sheets as per your baking dish size.
- Set water for boiling, add salt to taste and oil and boil the lasagna sheets for 5-6 minutes. Strain the lasagna sheets and they are ready to use for baking lasagna.
For assembly: - Spread a little red sauce in a microwave-safe bowl, add a lasagna sheet, further spread red sauce pasta and stir-fried veggies, spread a layer of white sauce and grate some cheese, layer it with lasagna sheets, repeat the layering process until there are seven layers formed. Or until it reaches the rim of your baking dish.
- Do the final layering, by adding a good amount of mozzarella or processed cheese.
- Preheat the oven and bake in convection + grill mode at 200 for 20 minutes or until the cheese browns.
- Lasagna is ready, cut in square and serve immediately with some garlic bread.