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  • Basic Healthy Eating Lasange

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    Basic Healthy Eating Lasange
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    Servings: 4-6
    by Helen Gibbs
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    This is my take on lasange as a dietitian and a cook. It is considered edible by a Scots man I know who doesn't really do vegetables, so it must be good.

    Ingredients

    • 1 TBSP cooking oil
    • 1 large onion finely chopped
    • 2 cloves of garlic
    • 500g lean mince (I use beef because I like the taste but chicken or turkey or vegetarian could be used)
    • 100g red lentils well washed
    • 2 large carrots grated
    • 100g spinach (I use the frozen bullets of spinach!)
    • 1 medium tin of crushed tomatoes
    • 2 TBSP tomato paste
    • Dried or fresh italian herbs
    • 2 metric cups of skimmed milk
    • 2 TBSP maize cornflour
    • 1 tsp dried mustard
    • 10 drops tabasco sauce
    • 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
    • 2 oz of strong cheddar cheese, grated
    • Sheets of instant or fresh lasange

    Directions

    1. Heat oil in large skillet
    2. Add onion and garlic and cook till soft
    3. Add mince and cook till brown
    4. Add red lentils, vegetables and tomatoes along with tomato paste and herbs
    5. Cook stirring occasionally for around 30 minutes.
    6. Heat 1 1/2 metric cups of milk in sauce pan until just below boiling
    7. While heating mix cornflour mustard, tabasco and pepper in residual 1/2 cup of milk.
    8. Pour some of the hot milk into the cold while stirring rapidly, then transfer back into pan and heat until thickens.
    9. Add grated cheese
    10. Layer starting with a sheet of lasange in a baking dish, add pasta, meat sauce, pasta, white sauce, meat sauce pasta, white sauce - I usually only do the three layers of pasta because I am in a rush.
    11. Bake at 180 degrees celcius for about 30-40 minutes until bubbling and golden on top.
    12. This freezes well at the step before heating.

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