Vegetarian Spinach Lasagna
Nothing tastes better than Vegetarian Spinach Lasagna made from scratch. It takes a little extra effort to make sheets at home but it is totally worth it.
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Servings: 4 people
Equipment
OTG
Kadhai
Ingredients
for tomato sauce:
- 5-6 red tomatoes
- 3 onions
- 6 cloves of garlic
- 1 tbsp ginger-green chili paste
- cottage cheese made from 1-liter milk I have shared process in the post if you want to learn how to make cottage cheese
- ½ tsp red chili powder
- ¼ tsp oregano
- ½ tsp black pepper
- salt to taste.
- 2 tbsp oil of your choice
For spinach filling:
- ½ -3/4 Kg spinach washed and chopped I use 3/4 kg as we like a lot of spinach in our lasagna
- 2 onions chopped
- salt and black pepper to taste
- ¼ tsp red chili powder
- ¼ tsp oregano
- 50 grams Cheese
- 2 tbsp oil of your choice
For Lasagna Sheets:
- 1 ½ cup plain flour
- 1 ½ tbsp butter/oil
- ¼ tsp salt
- water as needed
- 1 tsp for boiling lasagne
- 1 tsp for boiling lasagne
For Baking
- 150 gms mozzarella cheese/ or 6 cheese cubes
- 50 gms butter
Instructions
For the Tomato Sauce:
- Grind all the ingredients, except cottage cheese and spices, in a blender to a fine paste.
- Heat oil in a pan, add tomato mixture and spices, and cook till the mixture leaves sides of the pan.
- Now add crumbled cottage cheese (paneer) and cook for 1 more minute.
- Taste the filling. I keep tomato filling a little spicy.
For spinach filling:
- In a large frying pan, add a little oil and fry the onion until translucent.
- Now add spinach and cook for 10 minutes.
- Add salt, chili, black pepper, and oregano.
- Grate cheese and mix well.
- Cook for 2 minutes.
For Lasagna Sheets:
- Sift flour into a mixing bowl, add salt. Rub in butter with your fingertips.
- Knead the dough with the help of your hands until you get smooth dough by adding in water or flour as required.
- Let it rest for about 15-20 minutes.
- Make 5 balls of the pasta dough.
- Roll out one ball at a time with the help of a rolling pin until you get a thin sheet.
- The size of the sheet should be according to your baking dish.
- Cut it in half.
- Lasagna is cooked in the same way as any other pasta.
- Boil water in a large pan. Add 1 tsp salt and 1 tbsp of oil to the boiling water to keep the sheets from sticking to each other.
- Cook the lasagna sheets in boiling water for 3-4 minutes.
- Turn them once after 2 minutes. Do not put all the sheets at once otherwise, they will all stick together.
- Drain them for one minute.
For Baking
- In a greased baking dish arrange sheets of lasagna.
- Cover with half of the tomato mixture and spread evenly.
- Now arrange the second pasta sheet and cover it with half spinach mixture.
- Repeat with the second layer of tomato mixture and spinach mixture.
- Cover it with the fifth lasagna sheet.
- Spread grated mozzarella cheese over this layer evenly and dot with butter.
- Cook in the oven at 280 C till the top starts to brown- around 30 minutes. Let it stand for 10 minutes before serving.
- Cook in the oven at 280 C till the top starts to brown- around 30 minutes.
- Let it stand for 10 minutes before serving.
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Notes
Tips:
Try to roll out thin lasagna sheets as they taste better.
Do not skip on oregano because it adds an amazing flavor to lasagna.
You can also spread a layer of white sauce on lasagna sheets if you like it extra rich. But I have found that a nice layer of mozzarella cheese adds the same flavor.
Do not skip on oregano because it adds an amazing flavor to lasagna.
You can also spread a layer of white sauce on lasagna sheets if you like it extra rich. But I have found that a nice layer of mozzarella cheese adds the same flavor.