Last Night My Lasagna Got SO BAKED! 😂 Plant Based & Gluten-Free, Naturally!
Plant based lasagna to the dinner plate, please! Add garlic, homemade croûtons on top and oh myyyy is this ever delicious!
As many of you may know if you read my recipes, I haven't had an oven in forever! In Bali, ovens are not very common in houses, likely due to the fact that it's already smoldering hot here without the oven producing extra sweat!
I however love things like cookies, cakes, lasagna, pie, casseroles, cupcakes, ... K, I need to stop, I'm getting hungry.
So, I got myself a giant toaster oven (haha) I'm in experimental phase but it seems to be working really well!
Here's my first lasagna made outside on my deck, in the toaster oven!
It's vegan, gluten free and nut free as well! Come check it out!
What you need: (Makes 6-8 servings)
Pasta
- 3 thinly sliced eggplants (I used round eggplant but you can use whatever kind you have!)
- 2 bunches of kale
- 1/4 cup olive oil
Sauce
- 2 cups tomatoes
- 1 onion
- 1 bulb of garlic (I like it extra garlicy, you can use less if you want!)
- 1 bunch Indian Butter (*I know most of you won't have this, don't worry, I added it because I had it and love it but it's not going to be a game changer!)
- 3-4 chili peppers (depending if you want it HOT!)
- 1 stem rosemary
- 1 tbs thyme
- 1 tbs oregano
- 1/2-1 tbs sea salt
- 1/2-1 tbs black pepper
- 1/4 coconut oil
- 1/4 olive oil
On top
- 1 handful (about 5) big mushrooms (thinly sliced)
- croûtons (optional, I made some from my gluten free bread and added them in!)
- 1 bunch spring onion (chopped into small bits)
- 4-5 sun dried tomatoes (cut into bite sizes)
What to do:
Sauce
If you have a small processor like me, you'll have to do this in sections!
- Cut each tomato in 4 (halves of halves) and add to the processor.
- Add in your herbs and oil.
- Pulse until blended together.
- Add in chopped onion, garlic, chili peppers, and seasonings.
- Pulse together until smooth.
Pasta
- Slice the eggplant thinly and add it into a baking tray/dish that has been coated with coconut oil.
- Lay each piece down as you would lasagna noodles.
- Add a layer of kale on top, laying each piece down over top of the eggplant.
- Pour the sauce all over the layer.
- Make another layer of the eggplant then the kale then the sauce.
- Add mushrooms to the top layer.
- Sprinkle on any leftover sauce.
- Place this in the oven. I baked mine in the toaster oven at 180 Celsius for 40 minutes.
- Check with a fork to make sure the eggplant is soft before taking out to serve!
- With 10 minutes left, add on the croûtons, spring onion and sun dried tomato!
Making garlic croûtons
(I used gluten free, vegan pumpkin bread)
- Chop up dry pieces of bread and add them into coconut oil and either fresh minced garlic or garlic powder with some sea salt. Toss in a skillet until crispy. EASY!
- Add them on top!
Pretty dang delicious, right?
Enjoy my friends!
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Excellent recipe and excellent post, I really enjoyed this and will make every effort to make this recipe!
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Did you forget to vote for the post? I know that sometimes the vote doesn't go through when it's done when you comment. Maybe this is what happened...
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It's much more effective to give votes and build a community on Steemit than it is to take votes for yourself (though I'm sure this was just a mistake, I'm just wanting to share with people who may not know this.)
That's an interesting way to do lasagne. For me it would need a little more sauce, perhaps a bit of tomato, maybe topped off with some cream cheese, although that wouldn't be very vegan. Looks nice though.
Awww this is pretty saucy, the second layer takes it all :) I actually had 2 pans because mine need to be small to fit in the oven so the recipe makes a bunch! Of course the cream cheese is not an option here for me but I make lots of vegan cheeses that could work here, this time I omitted it but I have done so in the past :) I think it's worth a try! <3
Haa..looks yummy. You made me hungry now.
It's your fault so give me a piece of that!
Btw, I want to enter your giant rock challenge but I'm still searching for the songs. It's so damn hard. And I haven't seen any entries. I'm dying to enter if I get through with the lyrics but I'm afraid that you'll forget me because I'm the only one.
Hi :) Wow that's amazing that you found it and are dedicated to completing it! If you find the lyrics and do the video, I promise I will not forget, just tag me in so I see it and I'm sure you'll be the winner ;) <3
Thanks. I made a video on dlive. But I don't think it's good. And I misspelt the tag. Hope you dont' mind.
https://steemit.com/dlive/@mashiliyanage/e5a7fee0-2e25-11e8-8c78-95b7c3b77998
Slobbering right now!!
Ooooh, that sounds like you might want to make this then! :) It's my honor to make you slobber but careful, keyboards don't like it so much. ;)
Haha....I will be careful.
This sounds so yummy, might have to give this one ago, might have to not tell the family that it's got no meat init.
Hahaha just serve it without the meat and don't say anything. Wait for them to say something. I doubt they will! The sauce is the best part :) The croutons really amp it up too. Let me know if you go for it, my mom used to trick me all the time and I never knew what she was crafting behind the scenes ;)
Tried it last night will do a post as tried two vegan treats, from recipes from Steemit also.
They figured out while it was getting made there was no meat.
How did they feel? Did they like it despite the lack of meat? :)
Oh no! See how you just left me salivating 😋😋😋😋
The picture is so tempting. nice.
The sauce really makes this dish! It's a great one for leftovers, so easy to make again :)
OMG.... I've never tried this method before.
You should give it a go, it's pretty easy and absolutely worth it :)
Boy that looks good. I'm not a big fan of eggplant, but this is the second recipe in two days. Somebody must be trying to tell me something.
So. I've now had two of the hamburger patties. They are OK, but I want to find the ones you mentioned. I've also had one 'pure vegan' spicy chicken patty. It was quite good, if you understand that 'spicy' is a relative term. Easy fix and tasty.
Honestly, I am not a fan of eggplant either but think about it for a minute. I think I'm not a fan of eggplant but I have no idea why that is. Whenever it's prepared well, it's delicious and I have had dozens of experiences of that and still think I don't really like it. I think it's conditioning.
If you were to try this, I would maybe gently fry the eggplant in some oil before hand just quickly to soften it and make it more mushy if you're feeling this way about it.
Ahhh, I bet you I'm with you on the spice. Nothing on any label understands the amount of chillies I can handle and WANT in my food ;) I'm happy to finally hear the review of your taste test! You're having a hard time finding those big names I mentioned? I thought they seemed quite available across the US?
Looks so yummy! Those croutons must make it even tastier 😋 Thanks for sharing!
The croutons are so easy to make and really just put an extra level of delicious on top :)
Agreed. Nice attachment🍞
Thank you, I am always looking to take things to the next level ;)