Easy Spinach Lasagna

Submitted by Mirj2338

"This is from my friend Judy Montagu's bi-weekly column. This lasagna is really yummy, and should be cooked for a while in a low-mid heat oven. It stays firm without any wetness, and is still creamy."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 45mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 1⁄2 lb lasagna noodle
• 1⁄2 lb fresh spinach (not frozen)
• 1 (28 ounce) can crushed tomatoes
• 6 sweet red peppers
• 2 large white onions
• 3 garlic cloves, crushed or finely chopped
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• fresh black pepper
• 1⁄2 cup parsley, finely chopped
• 2 (4 ounce) cans sugar-free tomato puree

• Topping

• 1 cup low-fat American cheese, grated
• 1 cup sour cream

directions

1. Chop the onion and peppers into small pieces.
2. Fry lightly in the olive oil for a few minutes and add some black pepper.
3. Add the garlic.
4. Mix well and add the canned tomatoes.
5. Heat until a few bubbles appear and slowly add the puree, then all the parsley except a little for decoration.
6. Set aside.
7. Make sure the spinach is totally clean.
8. (Put it in a drainer and cover with salt, then wash really well.) Steam in a stainless steel drainer over a pot of boiling water for no more than 3 minutes.
9. While it is cooking, set the oven to 300 degrees F.
10. Drain the spinach and put in a pan.
11. Mix with the sour cream and plenty of black pepper (a small hand blender is ideal for this).
12. It should be smooth and creamy and a lovely color.
13. Pour about 2 inches of the red sauce into a baking dish, smooth with a wooden spoon and cover with a layer of lasagne.
14. Top with a layer of the spinach mix.
15. Smooth it out and add another layer of pasta.
16. Keep doing this- alternating red and green- until no more sauce is left.
17. The last layer of pasta must have a little sauce on it to keep it moist.
18. Cover with the cheese.
19. Bake, uncovered, for about 1 1/2 hours.
20. When the lasagne is done it needs to sit about 3 minutes before being sprinkled with parsley and served with a fresh green salad and a glass of dry red wine.

Reviews

[taraspet]

Overall a good vegetarian meal. Next time, I will bake it for an hour covered with foil, followed by half an hour of it being uncovered. Make more spinach mix to generously layer.

 

[lauralie41]

The red pepper sauce was nice in this spinach lasagna. For us it needed a little more flavor but it was good. I used finely shredded mozzarella cheese for the topping instead of american cheese. We had garlic bread and a salad along with the lasagna and enjoyed for supper!