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A quick and skinny Lasagna today. It was one of those Fridays a few weeks back, when the pantry and refrigerator were almost empty. No tomatoes, veggies or greens. I was tired if eating lentils/beans. I found a boiled sweet potato and some cauliflower and decided to try some bechamel with it. Simple flavors and delicious food.
Add more layers, add some marinara layers, cheese, greens and more to make it hearty.
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I am so bored of listening to audiobooks.. and now I will get a headache after pushing myself to write the post.. oh well. Here’s to better days!
Did you know that more Cows are harmed for Cheese than for Milk.
Americans consume almost twice as much cow’s milk as cheese than as fluid milk. It takes more than 10 pounds of fluid milk to get a pound of cheese. Fluid milk consumption is on a steady 40-year decline while cheese consumption continues to rise. Cheese consumption has continued to increase since 2010 and was at its highest level in 2012. As exposed in the New York Times, the USDA has worked behind the scenes with companies to increase the cheese content of products and market new cheese-laden products. In 2010, 326 pounds of cow’s milk was consumed as cheese per capita while only 196 pounds was consumed as fluid milk. To get a better idea about the numbers, see the article at Counting Animals with charts and graphs.
Steps:
Whisk the flour into melted oil.
Whisk in the almond milk, then add salt, pepper and nutmeg. Keep ready
Assemble the Lasagna. Layer Bechamel, lasagna sheets, sliced cauliflower. Sprinkle garlic powder and chili or black pepper.
Add a layer of Sweet potato slices(raw or roasted), sprinkle dried herbs of choice, salt, bechamel and lasagna sheets.
Top with bechamel, bread crumbs or cheese.
Bake for about an hour.
Serve.
Vegan Lasagna Bechamel with Sweet Potatoes & Cauliflower
Ingredients
Bechamel Sauce
- 2 Tablespoons Vegan butter
- 2 tbsp Extra virgin olive oil
- 5 Tablespoons flour, I used half spelt half bread flour
- 2 cups unsweetened almond milk
- 1/2 teaspoon salt or to taste
- 1/8 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper or to taste
- 1/2 Sweet Potato or yam sliced, raw or roasted. I used roasted
- Thinly sliced Cauliflower florets, raw or lightly blanched. I used raw
- breadcrumbs or cheese
- 8-10 Lasagna Sheets, no-boil
- dried parsley and thyme
- 1/4 cup bread crumbs , or vegan parmesan or coarse ground cashew/almond mixed with nutritional yeast
Instructions
Bechamel sauce
- In a medium pan, melt the butter/oil on medium. Add the flour and whisk to form a roux or thick paste. Cook 1-2 minutes until it is just about to change color.
- Add almond milk, whisk as you add, making sure there are no lumps. Add the nutmeg, black pepper and salt to taste.
- Remove from heat after the sauce has thickened into a smooth gravy-like velvety texture. (Use 1.5 cups almond milk for thicker sauce. I used 2 cups as the sauce will thicken further during baking)
Lasagna
- Layer some bechamel, top with Lasagna sheets. Top with thin slices of cauliflower. Sprinkle a little salt, (sprinkle chili flakes and garlic powder.Optional)
- Drizzle some more bechamel sauce. Layer Lasagna sheets. Top the sheets with cooked Sweet potato slices(or thin raw slices). Sprinkle some dried thyme or parsley.
- Drizzle a little bechamel (or marinara). Top with Lasagna sheets.
- Spread the rest of the bechamel. Top with Bread crumbs mixed with dried herbs of choice, nutritional yeast, salt and pepper, or Cheese(vegan mozzarella shreds or parmesan or ground cashew/almond +nutritional yeast). Cover the pan with aluminium foil.
- Bake in preheated 360 degrees F / 180ºc for 50 minutes to an hour. Take itout of the oven. Remove foil. Let sit for 5 minutes before serving.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Thank you for this wonderful recipe, it is is delicious. My 4 year old girl is obsessed with it so we have it like 3 times a week and she’s super fussy! I add sliced zucchini and sometimes mushrooms!
Your recipes are so elegant and versatile, this was great. I love that they are easy to read! I turn to them often. Thank you!
Awesome
Thank you for adding the info. about how many animals are harmed and killed for the “conventional “ ingredients that you substitute for vegan in your recipes.
Also, thank you for doing this at all!! I know it must be hard work.
Oxoxo