Lasagne with a Twist

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Lasagne with a Twist

This Lasagne with a Twist recipe is a great way to turn one meal into two. In my Roast Beef recipe, I spoke about reducing waste by creating two meals out of one in order to make your cooking as budget friendly as possible!
So this Lasagne is the second meal I made using leftovers from the roast.

I find myself often using this Lasagne as a go to recipe when I’m wanting a quick and easy dinner. It’s easier than most think to make a delicious and healthy home made meal.

If I find I don’t have any lasagne sheets in the pantry I use spaghetti instead. Just break it up to size and layer it across your dish.

Remember to substitute to suit your dietary needs.

Ingredients:

  • Left over roast beef + 1litre of  stock of your choice. You can use water if you don’t have stock.
  • Hidden Veg Sauce – One batch should be more than enough
  • 1tbsp flour (I use gluten free)
  • 1tbsp butter (I use nuttelex because it’s dairy free)
  • 1/2 litre of milk (I use zymil becase it’s lactose free).
  • 300g cheese of your choice. I substitute for NOT-zarella which is dairy free cheese. You can leave out if you like.
  • 1 packet of lasagne sheets of your choice, or spaghetti.

Method:

  1. Put roast beef in slow cooker with chicken stock and cook until it falls apart. I put mine in the slow cooker on low over night.
  2. Shred the beef with two forks. You should have something that looks like this.

    shredded beef

  3. Combine your Hidden Veg Sauce with the beef to make your filling for you lasagne.
  4. Preheat oven to 180c

Make your Bechamel Sauce.

  1. In a pot melt butter and add your flour.
  2. Combine and cook until the mixture comes away from the pan.
  3. Add milk gradually whisking to ensure you don’t get any lumps. Continue to add milk until you have a sauce the consistency of custard.
  4. Add 1/4 of the cheese and stir until melted.

Assemble your lasagne.

  1. On the bottom of your dish lay lasagne sheets, follow with your beef mixture and then with bechamel sauce.
  2. Repeat until your dish is full.
  3. Add cheese and cook for approximately 25-30 mins

Lasagne with a Twist

Remember that the beef and the sauce is already cooked so you only have to cook the lasagne sheets and melt the cheese.

I’ve always made normal lasagne and it’s never been a real hit but since I’ve started using the hidden veg sauce it’s become a favourite!