Plant-based & Gluten-Free & Cutting Edge Cuisine
The Ultimate Lasagna Sweet Potato & Aubergine
Hearty, fancy, sophisticated and uncommonly tasty!
Equipment
- 1 Food processor
- 1 blender - optional
- 1 baking tray
- 1 Oven
- 1 hand blender
Ingredients
Lasagna sheets:
- 3 pieces large eggplants
- 6 pieces sweet potatoes
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1/4 cup Zatar spice
White Sauce
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1 1/2 cup raw unsalted cashews
- 1/3 cup almond milk
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
- 1/2 tsp paprika + smoked paprika
- 1/2 tsp Himalaya Salt
Bolognese Sauce
- 600 gr mushrooms
- 300 gr walnuts
- 3 pieces spring onions
- 1 red chili
- 1/2 cup tomato paste organic acid citric free
- 1 tin organic chopped tomatoes
- 1 tsp Himalaya salt
- 1 tsp dried basil
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1/2 tsp thyme
- 1/2 tsp paprika + smoked paprika
Other
- 1 1/2 cup plant-based shredded cheese Violife
- 1/4 cup chopped chives
Instructions
White Sauce
- Soaked cashews in boiling water for at least 4 hours or in cold water overnight
- Blend soaked cashews, garlic, almond milk, salt, lemon juice, onion powder, paprika, smoked paprika in a high speed blender or in a food processor.
Bolognese Sauce
- Blend walnuts in a food processor until realtively finely chopped.
- In a frying pan sautee chopped spring onions, red chili.
- Add chopped mushrooms. Sautee well.
- Add crushed tomatoes and tomato paste and then basil, oregano, thyme, salt.
- Cook for 5 minutes.
- Add ground walnuts.
- Cook for 10 minutes.
- Set aside.
Lasagna sheet
- Line up two baking trays or racks with parchment paper.
- Cut aubergines and sweet potato lengthwise into kind of thick slices.
- Place on baking trays or racks.
- In a bowl mix olive oil and Zatar spice and brush over the slices.
- Preheat oven 200C / 400F.
- Bake for 20 minutes or more depending on the oven.
- Make sure you turn them over half way through.
- Don't overcook, they will go in the oven again later on.
Lasagna assemble
- Grease the baking trey with some olive oil.
- Create the first layer out of aubergine slices making sure there are almost no gaps in between.
- With a spoon spread bolognese sauce generously.
- Spread shredded cheese.
- Add a layer of sweet potatoes. Now you can use the imperfect slices and keep the perfect ones for the top layer.
- Add bolognese sauce and then white sauce generously and then shredded cheese.
- Repeat until the top layer is made of the best sweet potato slices.
- Sprinkle some Zatar spice and bake in the oven for about 40 minutes depending on the oven.
- Enjoy!
Notes
- The sauces can be prepared in advance.
- You can even assembly the lasagna the night before and cook it the next day.
- Make sure the sauces are thick not too runny.
- I make my own Zatar spice but it can be store bought.
- Zatar spice is made out of: roasted sesame seeds, sumac, thyme, oregano, marjoram.
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