Vegetarian spinach and vegetable lasagna with tomato sauce

Ingredients for 3 servings:

• 600 g leaf spinach, frozen, with cream
• 2 large carrots
• 7 m.-large mushrooms
• 1 large onion(s)
• 5 tbsp milk
• ½ pack of herb cream cheese, approx. 100 g
• 1 tbsp, leveled vegetable stock powder
• 2 garlic cloves
• salt and pepper
• chili powder
• 3 tbsp butter
• 2 tbsp flour
• 500 ml tomatoes, pureed
• 150 ml sweet cream
• 1 package of lasagna sheets
• 200 g cheese, grated

Instructions

Working time approx. 25 minutes; Rest time approx. 10 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 55 minutes; Total time approx. 1 hour 30 minutes

Chop the carrots, mushrooms, and onion into small pieces and fry the diced onions in a pan until translucent. Then add the remaining vegetables and fry briefly. Add the milk and heat the creamed spinach until the leaves are no longer frozen and the cream sauce has thickened slightly. Now add the cream cheese and vegetable stock and mix well. Simmer for five minutes until the sauce has thickened. Finally, add a clove of garlic and season with salt, pepper, and chili. The spinach mixture can be quite spicy, as the spinach absorbs a lot of salt during baking. Heat the butter in a separate saucepan until it has completely melted. Add the flour while stirring and mix until smooth. While stirring constantly, add the passata, then immediately pour in the cream and bring everything to a boil briefly. Add a clove of garlic and season with salt and pepper. Here, too, there’s no need to skimp on the salt. Thinly cover the bottom of a baking dish with the tomato sauce and spinach, then layer the lasagna sheets, spinach mixture, and tomato sauce in alternating layers. Finish with the sauce and sprinkle evenly with grated cheese. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C (convection oven) for about 30 minutes. After baking, let the oven stand for another five to ten minutes to keep the lasagna in perfect shape and prevent it from falling apart. Tip: It’s also delicious to add finely sliced ​​feta slices to a layer before adding the next layer of lasagna sheets.