Vegan lasagne

Easy vegan recipe for 6 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has dried porcini mushrooms, olive oil, onion, carrots, celery sticks, garlic cloves, thyme, tomato puree, red wine, green lentils, plum tomatoes, chestnut mushroom, portobello mushrooms, soy sauce, marmite, plain flour, soya milk, nutmeg, lasagne sheets, nutritional yeast and green salad.

Vegan lasagne

Vegan lasagne

Recipe by Chef Soomro Course: Easy vegan
Servings

6

servings
Prep time

25 mins

Ingredients

  • Green Salad: green salad, to serve
  • Red Wine: 100ml vegan red wine (optional)
  • Olive Oil: 6 tbsp olive oil
  • Onion: 1 onion, finely chopped
  • Soy Sauce: 1 tsp soy sauce
  • Garlic Cloves: 4 garlic cloves, sliced
  • Tomato Puree: 1 tsp tomato puree
  • Thyme: few sprigs of thyme
  • Nutmeg: 1 whole nutmeg, for grating
  • Plain Flour: 6 tbsp plain flour
  • Chestnut Mushroom: 250g pack chestnut mushrooms, chopped
  • Soya Milk: 900ml soya milk
  • Marmite: 1 tsp Marmite
  • Green Lentils: 250g dried green lentils
  • Celery Sticks: 2 celery sticks, finely chopped
  • Carrots: 2 carrots, finely chopped
  • Dried Porcini Mushrooms: 30g bag dried porcini mushrooms
  • Plum Tomatoes: 2 x 400g cans whole plum tomatoes
  • Portobello Mushrooms: 250g pack portobello mushrooms, sliced
  • Nutritional Yeast: 2-3 tbsp nutritional yeast (optional, adds cheesy flavour)
  • Lasagne Sheets: 12 lasagne sheets

Directions

  1. Pour 800ml boiling water over the dried porcini and leave for 10 mins until hydrated. Meanwhile pour 1 1/2 tbsp oil into a large saucepan. Add the onion, carrot, celery and a pinch of salt. Cook gently, stirring for 10 mins until soft. Remove the porcini from the liquid, keeping the mushroomy stock and roughly chop. Set both aside.
  2. Add the garlic and thyme to the pan. Cook for 1 min, then stir in the tomato puree and cook for a minute more. Pour in the red wine, if using, cook until nearly reduced, then add the lentils, reserved mushroom stock and cans of tomatoes. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and leave to simmer with the lid on.
  3. Meanwhile, heat a large frying pan. Add 1 1/2 tbsp oil, then tip all of the mushrooms into the pan, including the rehydrated ones. Fry until all the water has evaporated and the mushrooms are deep golden brown. Pour in the soy sauce. Give everything a good mix, then scrape the mushrooms into the lentil saucepan.
  4. Stir in the Marmite, then continue to cook the ragu, stirring occasionally, over a lo -medium heat for 30-45 mins until the lentils are cooked and the sauce is thick and reduced, adding extra water if necessary. Remove the thyme sprigs and season to taste.
  5. Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. To make the white sauce, heat 3 tbsp olive oil in a pan, whisk in the flour and cook for a couple of minutes to get rid of the raw flour taste, then slowly whisk in the soya milk. Cook out until you have a creamy sauce, about 10 mins. Season to taste, adding a good grating of nutmeg.
  6. Spread a third of the ragu on the bottom of your ovenproof dish, then top with 6 lasagne sheets, followed by another third of the vegan white sauce, then another third of the ragu. Top with the remaining lasagne sheets, then the remaining ragu and finally, spread over the rest of the white sauce. Sprinkle over the nutritional yeast, if using, and bake for 45 mins-1 hr until the pasta is cooked.