Well the weather has well and truly changed…Did you feel the cold in the air today?
Winter is truly upon us, What better way to keep us warm then to have some Slimming World Favourite Comfort food up your sleeve.
Lasagna is one of my faves and I was so excited to learn that we can make a Food Optimized lasagna keeping us on plan and protecting our weight loss while enjoying the warming Italian feast!
Hands up if you enjoy some Italian 🙂 🙂
Ingredients:
- 1/2 pound of extra less than 5% fat mince (please ensure it says this on the packet, some butchers will swear that it is but its better to buy a pre-pack mince so you can stand behind the Free Food.) (P)
- lasagna Sheets
- 10/12 Chestnut mushrooms (S)
- 1 white onion (S)
- 1 tsp of Garlic Clove Crushed (S)
- 1 tsp of Mixed herbs (Free)
- 2 tsp of Basil dried or fresh (Free)
- 1 Carrot (S)
- 1 yellow pepper (S)
- 1 beef stock cube
- 1 can of chopped tomatoes
- half a carton of passata
- 3 large heaped Tbsp of Fat Free Fromage Frais
- 2 large heaped tsp of Quark
- 50g of Extra lightest Philadelphia
- 1 tsp onion salt
- 1tsp garlic salt
- 1tsp sweetener
- 25g of parmesan
- Fry light, Sea Salt, Black Pepper
Salad:
Cherry tomatoes
Basil leaves
Balsamic Vinegar
Method:-
Stir fry chopped garlic, onion and chopped mushroom in fry light in a large pan for about 8 minutes on medium heat.
Add chopped yellow pepper, and grated carrot to the pan.
Once vegetables in the pan have become soft and are cooking gently add the beef stock cube.
Add the 1/2 pound of Extra lean less than 5% Fat mince to the pan and gently brown it.
Meanwhile open your can of chopped tomatoes and your passata.
Pour gently over the veg and mince in the pan. leaving half of the passata behind for later.
Now its time to add your seasoning. Add 1 tsp of chopped mixed herbs fresh or frozen. Two tsp of Basil fresh or frozen.
Bring the lasagna sauce almost to the boil then let it simmer, so tun it right down.
Add 1 tsp of sweetener and taste, grind some black pepper and sea salt Use your own taste buds here a your discretion add more sweetener pepper and salt if required.
Allow you lasagna mixture to simmer away for a further 12 mins.
Meanwhile you can prepare you oven proof tray.
Gently spray with fry light.
Line the base of the oven proof with lasagna sheets.
In a separate bowl it’s time to prepare your white cheesy sauce.
Add three large heaped tbsp of Fat free Fromage to the bowl, plus add three heaped tbsp of Quark.
now its time to add in your measure Healthy Extra, this time we are using 50g Extra Lightest Philadelphia.
Gently swirl and mix it all together, Add 1 tsp of onion salt, plus 1 tsp of garlic salt.
By now its time to remove your pan of lasagna from the heat.
Gently spoon a layer of lasagna mixture on your base layer, it can be a thick layer of lasagna.
Gently press more lasagna sheet over the meat layer and press down in place.
Now its time to spoon half of your white sauce mixture over the lasagna sheets.
Add one more thick layer of the lasagna meaty mixture. By now the pan is empty. if gone that is ok, if you have enough for layer three, go for it! 🙂 🙂
Pile the last of your lasagna sheet on top, gently press down.
Now cover the top layer of lasagna sheet with the other half of you passata sauce to completely cover the top layer.
Crack some salt and pepper over the passata.
Cover the passata as best you can with the remaining white sauce it’s quite thick so it may not go on too easily but as long as the passata & the white sauce cover the lasagna sheets to prevent curling.
Sprinkle 20 g of parmesan cheese over the top this is the other half of your Healthy Extra A choice. Make sure to get to the corners and the edges of the oven proof dish.
Cook in a low oven for 15/20 minutes. 190 degree oven.
Test the lasagna with a cocktail stick to make sure the lasagna is cooked thru.
Enjoy with a huge salad,basil leaves,
cherry tomatoes, drizzled with Balsamic vinegar.
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