Green vegetable lasagna

Green vegetable lasagna is an amazingly tasty meatless dish, it’s simple and easy to prepare, it’s ready within an hour and you can use fresh summer veggies full of vitamins. So it’s this lasagna is a perfect comfort food, isn’t it?

Green vegetable lasagna

Prep time: 30 mins Cook time: 35 mins Total time: 1 hour 5 mins
Serves: 3-4

Ingredients

1 small zucchini
1 small broccoli
2-3 spring (green) onion
2-3 celery sticks
1 handful mushroom (5-6 pieces)
100 g grated cheese
200 g lasagna sheet
for the white sauce:
5 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons butter
700 ml milk
1 teaspoon nutmeg (optional)
salt
black pepper

Green vegetable lasagna

Let's get started!

1. Chop the celery sticks, garlic, green onion, zucchini and mushrooms into small pieces. In a large pot heat 2 tablespoon olive oil, then add the chopped garlic and green onions, simmer them and add the chopped celery. Cook it for 5 minutes on medium heat, then add the chopped mushroom, finally the zucchini pieces. Stir and season the vegetables with salt and pepper to taste. Cover the pot and let them cook for 6-8 minutes until are tender.
2. In another pot heat salted water. When the water is boiling, add the broccoli florets and cook them for 5 minutes until are almost softened.
3. In a third pot melt two tablespoons of butter for the bechamel white sauce. When the butter is melted, add 5 tablespoons of flour, stir it continuously and gradually stir in the milk to get a smooth sauce. Season the sauce with salt, pepper and nutmeg and cook it for 5-8 minutes.
4. Preheat the oven to 180ºC/355ºF.
5. Spread one spoonful white sauce over the base of a medium sized casserole. Layer a line of lasagna sheet on the sauce, then top it with ⅓ of the vegetables (including the broccoli), cover them with white sauce, then top with a layer of pasta sheet. Repeat the layers two more times.
6. Finish with a layer of pasta followed by white sauce. Make sure the white sauce covers the pasta sheet throughly. Sprinkle the top of the lasagna with grated cheese.
7. Cover the casserole with foil and bake for 15 minutes, then remove the foil and bake uncovered for another 20 minutes until the top of veggie lasagna is bubbling and lightly browned.

Green vegetable lasagna