Crock Pot Vegetarian Lasagna

Submitted by CgyVegan

"This is an easy lasagna to make. It smells wonderful while cooking and tastes great. I adapted this recipe from a combination of others and came up with this vegetarian version. You can make this vegan easily by adding more of your favorite vegetables and using soy cheeses. Even the non vegetarians I made this for had seconds."

 

• Ready In: 5hrs 30mins
• Ingredients: 14
• Serves: 6-8

ingredients

• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 onions, diced
• 3 garlic cloves, Crushed
• 2 (6 ounce) cans tomato paste
• 2 (680 ml) cans tomato sauce
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons salt
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons pepper
• 1 1⁄2 cups mushrooms, sliced
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1 (750 g) container ricotta cheese
• 4 cups fresh spinach, rinsed
• 1⁄2 cup parmesan cheese or 1/2 cup asiago cheese, grated
• 2 (375 g) boxes no-boil lasagna noodles, oven ready, uncooked
• 16 ounces mozzarella cheese, shredded

directions

1. In large saucepan over medium heat, heat olive oil and add onions and garlic. Cook over medium heat until tender, about 3 minutes. Add mushrooms, oregano, salt and pepper to taste and cook for another 3 minutes, stirring often.
2. Add tomato paste and stir mixing thoroughly. Add tomato sauce, stir and cook sauce stirring occasionally for another 6-8 minutes or until heated through.
3. Remove sauce from heat and set aside.
4. In crock pot, cover bottom with enough sauce to just cover. Add two layers of lasagna noodles, breaking them where needed.
5. Spread noodles with one tub of the ricotta cheese and salt and pepper. Add two layers of lasagna noodles.
6. Cover noodles with half of the sauce, sprinkle with 1/2 of the mozzarella cheese. Add two layers of lasagna noodles.
7. Spread noodles with 1/2 tub of the ricotta cheese. Shake excess water from spinach leaves and cover cheese with spinach and salt and pepper. Add two layers of lasagna noodles.
8. Cover noodles with remaining sauce and cover sauce with remaining mozzarella and parmesan or asiago cheese.
9. Put lid on crock pot and turn on high. Leave to cook for 5 hours. When done, let lasagna sit for 8 minutes to set before cutting.

Reviews

[paddyjones777]

The measurements were WAY off and I wasn't happy about wasting $ because of it. At one point it called for two cans of tomato sauce that are 5.75ML in size. Well that equals .19 of an OZ then later it tells me to use the entire tub of ricotta on the bottom layer. My guess is that the person writing the recipe is not English speaking. Total waste of time and money. ~P Jones, Gunnison, CO

 

[Mrs Majors]

I have made this a dozen times and never the same way twice. Sometimes I have fresh spinach; other times I use frozen chopped(thawed in microwave and well drained). My husband loathes mushrooms so I ... um... chop them up finely. Shhhh. Once I even substituted BOCA for the mushrooms. I have even put in finely shredded carrots when I needed to use them up. I have also used jar sauce a few times when I had to throw it together and leave. This works great. Just pick up at step 4 and you're done in 5 minutes. I have a large oval crockpot but have never used a full 2 boxes of noodles. I don't really double the noodles; they just overlap a bit. (And still my crockpot will be full to the top!) I have, however, used more than the called for cheese because we like a bubbly, browned (yep, it browns in the crockpot?!), cheesy top on our lasagna. I like this recipe so much that I doubt seriously I'll go back to cooking dry lasagna in the oven! Thanks for posting it.

 

[weekendcook68]

These measurements are sloppy. Was this done with self canned ingredients with homemade containers? Switching from avoire du pois to metric helps no one. Ok, so 680ml containers of sauce are not available in the US, at least not mainstream but 6 oz cans of paste are. Stick with one or the other. 1/2 cup parm but 375g boxes of lasagna. <br/><br/>Love the ingredients but loathe the attention to detail of the measures. I like my lasagna more moist than dry so I used two cans (28-29 oz US) which puts me over the 1360 ml suggested sauce amount. Go for it. <br/><br/>My 2lb container of ricotta is 907 g seemed enough although the recipe said to put in 1 tub in an early step then 1/2 tub in another. Thats 1 and 1/2 tubs so is it 2 tubs of 750 g with 1 used, 1/2 of another used and 1/2 thrown out?<br/><br/>If the measurements are all over the map and imprecise just put the ingredients down.

 

[ppcotrain]

I followed the recipe to the letter. I found that cooking it on high for 5 hours was too long. Parts of the edges were actually black! It was also a bit dry... But good for a first try.

 

[Taris Flashpaw]

Makes a LOT of lasagna and you can't tell that it's a vegetarian dish at all. I added some roasted red peppers in the layers with the cheese, and I used cottage cheese instead of ricotta and it was absolutely delicious. My DH and I will be making it again and again.