Friday 22 June 2012

Yummy Cottage Cheese Vegetable Lasagne


Most of us can benefit from including more vegetables in our diet and this vegetable lasagne is a great way to do it. 

This vegetable lasagne recipe is made using pumpkin, tomato pasta sauce, spinach leaves, crushed garlic and cottage cheese, which is a great source of protein and adds a nice zest to this dish. This recipe is a good source of protein.

Energy per 100g: 635kJ - 132Cal

Fat per 100g: 5.2g

Recipe Serves: This Recipe Serves 6-8. 

Recipe Ingredients:
  • 500g Pumpkin, peeled & sliced
  • 800g Pre prepared Tomato Pasta sauce
  • 1 Tbsp Olive Oil
  • 2 Cloves Garlic, crushed
  • 300g Spinach leaves, washed & chopped
  • 1 Tub of Bulla Original Cottage Cheese
  • 1 tsp Tuscan seasoning
  • 3 Eggs
  • 1 cup Parmesan Cheese, grated
  • 6 Fresh Lasagne sheets

Recipe Method:
  1. Pre-heat oven to 170 degrees C.
  2. Place the sliced pumpkin into a large saucepan with the tomato pasta sauce and simmer over a low heat for 10 minutes.
  3. Heat the olive oil in a frying pan over a medium heat and sauté the garlic 1 min, add the spinach leaves to the pan and cook stirring until spinach is wilted. Remove from the heat and cool.
  4. Combine the cottage cheese, seasoning, eggs and 1/2 the parmesan cheese in a large bowl and mix well finally fold through the wilted spinach.
  5. Spoon half the Pumpkin mixture into the base of a deep 24 cm square baking dish, cover with a layer of pasta sheets, top with half the cottage cheese mixture, cover with a layer pasta sheets and top with remaining pumpkin mixture repeat with remaining pasta, finishing with the cottage cheese and spinach mixture.
  6. Sprinkle over the Parmesan cheese and bake uncovered in the pre-heated oven 180c for 30 minutes until golden.
  7. Serve hot with salad and crusty bread.

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