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Vegan Spinach Alfredo Skillet Lasagna makes the perfect weeknight dinner! An easy vegan pasta recipe that is family-friendly, uses just 1 skillet, and is ready to eat in about 45 minutes!
Bubbling hot lasagna deliciousness…. Are you ready for it? Spinach Alfredo Skillet Lasagna! A satisfying one-pan meal that your whole family will enjoy! Perfectly cooked lasagna sheets cooked along with a fragrant mix of garlic, sauteed balsamic mushrooms, onions, spinach, and a dreamy cheesy vegan Alfredo Sauce – DROOL ALERT. An easy dinner fix for lovers of easy one-pot meals and no-fuss pasta dinners!
I love easy skillet lasagna recipes for their easy preparation and clean-up. Have you tried my French Onion Skillet Lasagna? Ever since I tried that recipe I knew I had to come up with another version and this Spinach Alfredo Lasagna is my new favorite -especially now that spinach is in season. But as you can make this with frozen spinach, you can prepare this easy one pot pasta dinner all year round.
MORE VEGAN PASTA RECIPES:
- Cauliflower Alfredo Spinach Artichoke Lasagna.
- Creamy Vegan Cajun Pasta
- Spinach Artichoke Pasta Bake
- Vegan Mushroom Fettucine Alfredo
- Cajun Cauliflower Pasta
- Vegan Lemon Asparagus Pasta
- Creamy Mushroom Spinach Pasta
Vegan Spinach Alfredo Skillet Lasagna
Ingredients
- 1 tsp oil
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 6-8 ounces spinach, chopped spinach, or thawed if frozen
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper flakes
For the alfredo sauce
- 3/4 cup raw cashews, soaked in hot water for 15 mins, drain and use
- 1 1/4 cup broth(veggie stock) or water
- 2 tsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 1 tsp Italian herbs such as thyme, oregano, basil
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp Miso
- 1 teaspoon all purpose flour , or corn/tapioca starch for glutenfree
For the rest of the lasagna
- 1 tsp oil
- 1/2 cup sliced onion
- 1/2 cup thinly sliced mushrooms
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/8 tsp pepper
- 1 tsp balsamic vinegar
- 5-6 regular lasagna sheets broken into pieces,, or 8 no boil lasagna sheets, or use 2 cups dried pasta such as Farfalle
- 2 cups water or broth
Instructions
- Add oil to a large skillet over medium heat, then add garlic and cook until the garlic is starting to turn golden, then add in the spinach, salt and pepper flakes, and mix well.
- Once the spinach is wilted, take off heat, and remove the spinach from the skillet into a bowl. For frozen spinach, just cook until the excess the water has dried out, but the spinach still has a lot of vibrant color.
- For the sauce, blend all of the ingredients until smooth then set aside. You can blend for a minute, then wait for 5 minutes, so that the blended cashews rehydrate, and then blend again, so that the mixture will be smooth.
- For the Skillet Lasagna, heat oil in the same skillet, add the onion, mushroom, garlic, salt, and pepper, and cook until the onion is golden, 6-8 minutes. Stir occasionally in between.
- Add in the balsamic vinegar, and mix in and cook for another 2 minutes. Then add your broken lasagna sheets, water or broth, and about 3/4 of the blended alfredo sauce (or add just 1/4 of the sauce for faster cooking the. Add the remaining sauce at the next step and bring to a boil), and mix in. cover the skillet and cook for 12-14 minutes. Stir once in between so the sheets don’t stick to each other . If the mixture is thickening too much, add in 2-4 tbsp more water or broth.
- Once the lasagna sheets are cooked to preference, reduce the heat to low medium. Taste and adjust salt and flavor.
- Distribute the cooked garlic spinach all over the skillet, and drizzle the remaining alfredo sauce all over as well, then cover and cook for the two minutes, and take off heat.
- Let the skillet sit for a few minutes for the alfredo sauce to thicken a bit more, then serve with some extra pepper flakes on top if you like, or some toasted bread crumbs.
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Notes
- To make the pasta nut-free, you can use my nut-free Alfredo (pumpkin seeds or cauliflower). or use 7 oz silken or firm tofu instead of cashews, like my Spinach Artichoke Pasta Bake
- Miso substitute: and to make soyfree, use chickpea miso or 1 tablespoon more nutritional yeast.
- To make this Glutenfree, use Glutenfree lasagna or pasta
- For cheesier blend in 1/4 vegan cheese of choice with the cashew blend
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Ingredients and substitutes:
- as for the pasta you can use 6 regular lasagna sheets or 8 no-boil lasagna sheets. Or use 2 cups uncooked flat style pasta of choice. Use gluten-free, if you want.
- the best alfredo lasagna – really any white lasagna – will always have plenty of garlic, mushrooms, and spinach, so I am using that trifecta. You can omit the mushrooms if you like.
- For the alfredo sauce, we blend soaked cashews, with some broth, lemon juice, and Italian herbs. See recipe notes for Nutfree options
- Nutritional yeast and miso paste add the “cheesy” flavor to our vegan alfredo. To omit nutritional yeast, double the miso and leave out the yeast
- A touch of balsamic vinegar adds both sweetness and acidity when sauteeing the mushrooms – a great addition!
Tips:
- This skillet lasagna recipe is perfect for using up those broken lasagna sheets you always get at the bottom of the pack. You can also use other flat pasta of choice
- If you do not have miso, add more nutritional yeast – the same goes the other way round.
Add oil to a large skillet over medium heat, then add garlic and cook until the garlic is starting to turn golden, then add in the spinach, salt, and pepper flakes, and mix well.
Once the spinach is wilted, take off heat, and remove the spinach from the skillet into a bowl. For frozen spinach, just cook until the excess water has dried out, but the spinach still has its vibrant color.
For the vegan white sauce (alfredo sauce), blend all of the ingredients until smooth then set aside. You can blend for a minute, then wait for 5 minutes, so that the blended cashews rehydrate, and then blend again so that the mixture will be smooth.
Now, heat oil in the same skillet, add the onion, mushroom, garlic, salt, and pepper, and cook until the onion is golden, 6-8 minutes. Stir occasionally in between.
Add in the balsamic vinegar, and mix in and cook for another 2 minutes. Then add your lasagna sheets, the water or broth, and about 3/4 of the blended alfredo sauce, and mix in to cover the skillet and cook for 12-14 minutes. Stir once in between. If the mixture is thickening too much, add in 2-4 tbsp more water or broth.
Once the lasagna sheets are cooked to preference, reduce the heat to low medium.
Distribute the spinach all over the skillet, and drizzle the remaining alfredo sauce all over as well, then cover and cook for two minutes, and take off the heat.
Let the skillet sit for a few minutes for the alfredo sauce to thicken a bit more, then serve with some extra pepper flakes on top if you like, or some toasted bread crumbs.
Make-ahead instructions:
- You can make the vegan alfredo sauce ahead of time and store it in the fridge.
- If you want to speed this up even more, prepare balsamic mushrooms and spinach garlic mix ahead of time and store in a container, then continue with step 5.
This was SO good and very easy! My husband ate almost the whole pan so I can’t figure out how it would serve 6 but we’ll be making it again for sure. Thank you!!!
awesome! thanks so much for your kind comment!
Richa, I’m making this right now but would like to freeze it. Didn’t know if it would freeze well for a month. I’d appreciate your opinion. Thanks so much for answering.
Cook it to aldente and freeze, reheat on the skillet or microwave
In the end it was delicious. But it will not feed 6 people. Cooking the broken noodles took forever. I’m an experienced cook so I could see that was going to happen. All and all it took one and one half hours to make. Next time I will boil the noodles separately, undercook them just a little and then add them to the sauce until they are at the desired tenderness. The sauce is super tasty!
Oh no. Not sure why it would take that long. You can use broth to cook the noodles then add the sauce in the end. (Make sauce with just 3/4 cup water donuts thick cream)