Monday, September 25, 2006

Dinner Sunday 24 September - Lasagna


Lasagna
2 serving ratatouille (see Lunch Saturday 23 September )
2 serving white sauce (see below)
15g grated Parmesan cheese
125g grated low fat mozzarella
250g mushrooms, sliced fine
100g broccoli, chopped
5 square sheets of lasagna (120g)

Pop one serving of ratatouille in the blender with a bit of water and blend briefly into a chunky sauce.

Select a baking dish as close to the size of you lasagna sheets as possible.

Place a bit of sauce in the bottom of the dish and add one sheet of lasagna pasta. Top with 1/2 of the un-blended ratatouille, then the second sheet of lasagna pasta and some some sauce. Next add a layer of mushrooms, some more sauce and your third sheet of lasagna. Then another layer of ratatouille and some more sauce. Top that with your fourth sheet of pasta and then the chopped broccoli, the last on the sauce and the fifth sheet of lasagna.

Finally, top the whole thing with the white sauce & grated cheeses.

Cover and bake at Gas Mark 4 for about 45 minutes. Remove the cover and bake until the top is nicely browned, about another 30 minutes.

Make 2 generous portions.

Nutrition Summary
Calories (kcal) 603.6
Protein (g) 35.5
Carbohydrate (g) 74.1
Fat (g) 18.7
Fibre (g) 11.0


Low fat White Sauce
one pint semi skimmed milk
30g sauce flour or cornflour
1 teaspoon Marigold Vegetable Bouillon
salt & white pepper to taste
a pinch of nutmeg
2 tablespoon finely chopped parsley

Mix together a little of the cold milk and the flour in a sauce pan. Gradually add the rest in the milk, beating all the time so no lumps form. Add the bouillon and cook over low heat until the sauce thickens. Add salt & pepper to taste and a sprinkling of fresh nutmeg. Finally add the chopped parsley.

I used the whey in which the cheese was packed as part of my pint of "milk".

Makes 4 servings

Nutrition Data per serving
Calories (kcal) 61.7
Carbohydrate (g) 11.0
Protein (g) 3.6
Fat (g) 0.5
Fibre (g) 0.3


Hadn't had lasagna in ages (not having had a working oven) and I thought the blitzed up ratatouille would make a nice sauce (as indeed it did).

This really should have been three or four portion, but I was HUNGRY!