Try this: healthy, delicious, vegan lasagna recipe. Lasagna is one of the most popular foods on earth and can taste very delicious depending on whose making it. While there are many different lasagna recipes to choose from; this vegan recipe is sure to offer much nutritional benefits.
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The Vegan Lasagna Ingredients needed are:
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 ½ cups chopped onion
- 3 tablespoon minced garlic
- 4 (14.5 ounces) cans stewed tomatoes
- 1/3 cup tomato paste
- ½ cup chopped fresh basil
- ½ cup chopped parsley
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 (16 ounce) package lasagna noodles
- 2 pounds firm tofu
- 2 tablespoon minced garlic
- ¼ cup chopped fresh basil
- ¼ cup chopped parsley
- ½ teaspoon salt
- Ground black pepper to taste
- 3 (10 ounce) packages frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained
Follow these directions to prepare your Vegan Lasagna.
Step: 1 Make the sauce: in a large, heavy saucepan, over medium heat, heat the olive oil. Place the onions in the saucepan and sauté them until they’re soft, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic; cook 5 minutes more.
Step: 2 Place the tomatoes, tomato paste, basil and parsley in the saucepan. Stir well, turn the heat to low and let the sauce simmer covered for 1 hour. Add the salt and pepper
Step: 3 While the sauce is cooking bring a large kettle of salted water to a boil. Boil the lasagna noodles for 9 minutes, the drain and rinse well.
Step: 4 Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C)
Step: 5 Place the tofu blocks in a large bowl. Add the garlic, basil and parsley. Add the salt and pepper and mash all the ingredients together by squeezing pieces of the tofu through your fingers. Mix well.
Step: 6 Assemble the lasagna: Spread 1 cup of tomato sauce in the bottom of a 9×13 inch casserole pan. Arrange a single layer of lasagna noodles. Distribute the spinach evenly over the tofu.
Step: 7 Next ladle 1 ½ cups tomato sauce over tofu, and top it with another layer of the noodles. Then sprinkle another 1/3 of the tofu mixture over the noodles, top the tofu with 1 ½ cups tomato sauce, and place a final layer of noodles over the tomato sauce.
Step: 8 Finally, top the noodles with the final 1/3 of the tofu and spread the remaining tomato sauce over everything
Cover the pan with foil and bake the lasagna for 30 minutes. Serve hot and enjoy
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