Soft Vegetable Lasagne with Tofu

This is delicious with homemade garlic bread.

Taken from Viva! and VVF's Mother and Baby Guide.

Serves:

2 or 4 with accompaniments

Time:

1 hour 30 mins

Ingredients:

2 tbsp olive oil
½ large onion or 1 small onion
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 red pepper, chopped
100g/3oz mushrooms, chopped
150g/ 5½oz firm tofu, sliced
440g/11b jar of tomato-based pasta sauce (most plain supermarket sauces are vegan, just watch for cheese)
1 packet ready-to-use lasagne sheets (ensuring it is not egg pasta)

White sauce
1 tbsp vegetable oil
½ onion, finely chopped
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 tbsp vegan margarine
1 ½ tbsp flour
250ml/8½fl oz soya milk
2 tbsp nutritional yeast flakes
1 tbsp light tahini

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 200ºC/400ºF/Gas Mark 6.

2. Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan. Fry the garlic and onions until browning.

3.Add the peppers and mushrooms and continue to cook on a medium heat until soft.

4. Set the vegetables aside when they are cooked and mix in the jar of sauce.

5. For the white sauce, heat the oil in a small saucepan and add the onions and garlic. Fry until they start to lightly brown.

6. Stir in the margarine, before adding the flour gradually, stirring with a wooden spoon for several minutes so it melts forms a smooth paste.

7. Then gradually stir in the soya milk, a little at a time, so any lumps can be smoothed out.

8. Add in the yeast flakes and tahini.

9. To construct the lasagne, grease a loaf tin or rectangular oven dish, then spoon in half the tomato and vegetable mixture.

10. Place a lasagne sheet on the top, then a couple of slices of tofu.

11. Repeat layers one more time, finishing by spooning the white sauce over the final sheet of lasagna and tofu.

12. Cook for 30-40 minutes or until the lasagne is bubbling and browning and a knife goes easily through all the layers ensuring the pasta is cooked.

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Comments

Submitted by Anonymous on December 28, 2011 - 12:10am.

Delicious! But definitely doesn't serve 4 as a main meal unless you add starters/side dishes/salad. Two of us had it and it was about right as a full meal but it could serve three with a small side salad. Loved the recipe though :-)

Submitted by Helen on January 4, 2012 - 10:49am.

Thanks very much for your feedback on the quantities, we will ammend the recipe. Best wishes, Helen

Submitted by Anonymous on October 19, 2011 - 6:04pm.

Excellent recipe - made it in a fix for my meat-eating family and they LOVED it!

Submitted by NuttyKnitter on August 14, 2011 - 10:35pm.

Made this at the weekend and it was lovely, I'm a big lasagne. Fan but have never had a white sauce with tahini and nutritional flakes, very tasty!

Submitted by Anonymous on July 13, 2011 - 2:44pm.

Ingredients are missing!

Submitted by Admin on August 8, 2011 - 9:31am.

Sorry about that - we had a technical glitch with this recipe. I have fixed it so all ingredients are showing up now - hope you enjoy it :)