Veggie Lasagna & chips

Updated at: Sun, 04 Feb 2024 08:59:49 GMT

Step 1

The bean sauce layer 2 onions, chopped, 2 garlic cloves, Tin value tomatoes, 2 tsp sugar, 2 tsp mixed dried herbs, 2 tins value baked beans, 400g carrots, Sauté the onions until transparent. Add the garlic, sauté for a minute or two. Add the tomatoes, sugar and the dried herbs.

Step 2

Grate the carrots, no need to peel unless they are manky. Add the carrots to the other vegetables.

Step 3

Open the beans and drain off the sauce, retaining the sauce to use in shepherds pie or soup. Rinse the beans and drain well. Add the beans to the vegetable mix. Season with salt and pepper.

Step 4

sauce layer 400ml skimmed milk, 50g flour, 50g veg oil, Put the oil in a saucepan and warm it. If you have any butter available, it would be worth a swap here. Add the flour and cook for a minute or two. Add a little of the milk and stir until amalgamated. Add the rest of the milk bit by bit and whisk well to incorporate. Now heat the milk mixture either in a saucepan or in the microwave until it thickens. Season. Set aside.

Step 5

pasta layer 100g value flour, Put the remaining 100g flour in a bowl and add enough cold water to make a pastry like dough. Knead a little.

Step 6

Divide into 3. Roll out one third to the thickness of a credit card and approximately the shape of your dish.

Step 7

In an ovenproof dish, the one I use is 9″/23cm x 7.5″/18cm, place one third of the beany mix, top with one quarter of the white sauce and sprinkle with a quarter of the grated cheese.

Step 8

Cover with the rolled out pasta.

Step 9

Repeat, beany mix, white sauce, cheese, pasta

Step 10

Repeat, beany mix, white sauce, cheese, pasta

Step 11

Now top the final layer of pasta with the last quarter of the white sauce and the final quarter of cheese. Everything else is cooked, we just need to cook the pasta through.

Step 12

Bake in a medium oven for 30-35 minutes until the top is browned.

Step 13

The beans can be any type, black eye beans, green or brown lentils, chick peas. You could even use red lentils, the cheapest of all, although they will melt into the mix, which is fine if you don’t mind that.

Step 14

Experiment with the herbs. Use a bit of fine chopped rosemary, or thyme, marjoram or sage. A mix of any combination of them that you like. You could infuse the bean mix with bay while it cooks.

Step 15

You may like a bit of mustard in the bean mix or the white sauce, or maybe a splash of soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, tomato or brown ketchup. Try things and see what you like

Step 16

The vegetable mix can also be varied depending on what you have. So long as it is tasty, it will work.

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