Combining simple, fresh ingredients to create a masterpiece of flavour, packed full of veggies, this is delicious
INGREDIENTS
1 pack of lasagne sheets
200g spinach, roughly chopped
200g frozen peas
1 tablespoon of nutritional yeast
For the Pesto
80g pine nuts
80g cashews
25g fresh basil, including stalks
2 garlic cloves
Juice of ½ lemon
1 tablespoon of nutritional yeast
125ml olive oil
100ml water
2 teaspoons of maple syrup (optional)
Pinch of salt
For the White Sauce
400ml almond milk (plus more if needed)
50g nutritional yeast
50g tapioca flour
1 tablespoon of Dijon mustard
Juice of ½ lemon
Pinch of salt
METHOD
Preheat the oven to 190C, fan setting. Make the pesto by placing all of the ingredients into a powerful food processor and blending until a thick, green pesto forms. Once blended, place the pesto into a pan over a medium heat.
Add the chopped spinach and frozen peas and heat until the spinach has wilted. Once wilted, turn off the heat and put to one side until needed.
Make the white sauce by placing the tapioca flour, lemon juice, nutritional yeast, mustard, almond milk and a pinch of salt into a pan over a medium heat, and cook until the mixture begins to bubble, continuously whisking to ensure the mixture stays smooth and doesn’t form any lumps. Continue whisking until the mixture becomes thick and elastic-like. At this point, remove from the heat and continue whisking to ensure it remains smooth – adding a dash more almond milk if it becomes too thick.
Once ready to assemble the lasagne; spoon one third of the pesto mixture onto the bottom of a baking dish. Top with one quarter of the white sauce and cover with one layer of lasagne sheets. Repeat this process twice more, with pesto sauce, white sauce, lasagne sheets, until you have finished all of the pesto and you are left with lasagne sheets on top. Top with the last of the white sauce.
Sprinkle with nutritional yeast and place in the oven to cook for 35-40 minutes until bubbling and golden on top.
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