I really love lasagne and thought it was time I shared a Thermomix vegetarian lasagne here with you.
Actually, lasagne is definitely one of my favourite foods and this version tops all of them for me. Well except my mum’s Spinach Lasagne, which I somehow managed to replicate, and published in Family Favourites Made Easy… a few years after sharing this one.
This epic vegetarian lasagne uses simple ingredients and comes together into a lovely, warming, comforting meal. We don’t tend to add accompaniments to this as it contains really all you need!
Serving it on its own does mean it doesn’t stretch as far. So bear in mind that the 8 servings I’ve given the recipe are for when you’re serving with salad, or other sides.
This Thermomix Vegetarian Lasagne Beats a Meat One Any Day!
The main bulk of this Thermomix vegetable lasagne is, well, veggies! The mix of veggies and the texture of the sauce is actually kind of meaty.
I’ve had so many people over the years tell me that their meat loving families gobbled this up, oblivious to the fact that there wasn’t even a tiny bit of meat in it.
You can find a tweaked version of this fab recipe in my cookbook, Main Meals Made Easy.
For those that would like it, there is in fact a meat variation on the recipe there. But I highly recommend you try the vego version first. I’d put bets on you and your family not missing the meat and going on to make it vegetarian time and time again.
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Thermomix Vegetarian Lasagne – Very Veggie
Ingredients
Vegetable Sauce
- 200 g brown onion quartered
- 5 garlic cloves 25g
- 20 g dried sliced shiitake mushrooms
- 20 g olive oil
- 500 g vine-ripened tomatoes quartered
- 350 g carrots roughly chopped
- 200 g zucchini roughly chopped
- 100 g mushrooms halved
- 100 g celery roughly chopped
- 75 g red capsicum roughly chopped
- 100 g tomato paste
- 1 tbsp Odds-and-Ends Vegetable Stock Concentrate
- handful fresh basil leaves or a good shake of dried basil
- salt and pepper
Cheese Topping
- 100 g cheddar cheese diced 1.5cm
- 50 g Parmesan cheese diced 1.5cm
- 200 g fresh ricotta cheese
- 100 g milk
- 1 egg
- 1/2 tsp pepper
Also Needed
- 150-180 g dried lasagne sheets I really like Castagno organic dried lasagne sheets (Note 1)
Instructions
To make Vegetable Sauce
- Place onion, garlic, shiitake mushrooms and oil in mixer bowl. Chop 5 seconds/speed 5/MC on. Cook 5 minutes/steaming temperature/speed 1/MC off.
- Add tomatoes and carrots. Chop 5 seconds/speed 4/MC on.
- Add zucchini, mushrooms, celery and capsicum. Chop 30-40 seconds/speed 4/MC on, or until no large chunks remain.
- Add tomato paste, stock and basil. Push these ingredients down with a spatula and roughly stir into what is already in the bowl. Cook 25 minutes/reverse/100 and set to speed 3, reducing the speed to speed 2 after 5 minutes cooking time.
- Taste and season with salt and pepper, if required. Cook a further 10 minutes/steaming temperature/reverse/speed 1/MC off, with the steaming basket sitting on top of the lid to contain any splatters.
- Transfer to another bowl. Set aside.
To make Cheese Topping
- Place Parmesan and cheddar cheeses in mixer bowl. Blitz 5 seconds/speed 7/MC on. Remove half of the cheese to a bowl, set aside.
- To the cheese in mixer bowl, add ricotta, milk, egg and pepper. Blitz 10 seconds/speed 3/MC on.
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- In a lasagne dish, layer components in this order: Vegetable Sauce – lasagne sheets – Vegetable Sauce – lasagne sheets – Vegetable Sauce – lasagne sheets – Vegetable Sauce (until all sauce is used). Finally, top with the Cheese Topping, dolloping spoonfuls of the mixture on then carefully spreading to cover the entire surface. Sprinkle with the grated cheese you set aside earlier.
- Cook 30-40 minutes, until the lasagne sheets are cooked through. If the surface becomes brown before the pasta is ready, cover the dish with aluminium foil for the remainder of the cooking time.
Notes
Nutrition
Please note, nutrition information is calculated via an online recipe nutrition calculator and is a guide only. It is provided as a courtesy and is not guaranteed 100% accurate. I am not a nutritionist or trained health professional.
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Hi, I'm Bec
I specialise in great tasting vegetarian Thermomix recipes and cater for a wide range of dietary needs. I love sharing here and in my cookbooks my healthy, delicious recipes (of course the odd treat too!) Whether you’re looking to ignite your thermo mojo, or just after some new, really tasty family friendly recipes, there really is something here for everyone
This is not actually a vegetarian dish. The rennet used to make Parmesan uses cows stomach. I only recently learned this so just passing the information on for others who might not be aware!
Hey Clara, thank you for commenting about this. You’re right that Parmesan is usually not truly vego, however you can get Parmesan that uses non-animal derived rennet, keeping this dish and others that use Parmesan vegetarian. Here’s one such Parmesan: https://www.ripecheese.com.au/product-page/organic-australian-parmesan
Beautiful, my meat loving husband was very impressed…
My cheese sauce curdled when I blended it in the thermie. Any ideas why? I cooked it anyway and it was a little scrambled egg like in my lasagne. I only used a small egg:(
Hey Mags, the cheese topping on this lasagne isn’t smooth like a traditional bechamel and it won’t have curdled (provided your ingredients were fresh) it’s just the texture of the ricotta. Hoping you enjoyed the lasagne! 🙂
Amazing! I love how the ricotta cheese sauce is all fluffy and creamy with the rich tomato veggie sauce flavours, winner dish ???
Making this tonight, looking forward to it. How much does it serve?
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Wow! This was amazing an my first go at a Thermonexta receipe!
Awesome, thank you 🙂 Hopefully the first of many!
This was amazing! My three eldest can be fussy and as soon as they saw the mushrooms they decided they didn’t want lasagne for dinner and wanted spaghetti instead. So I stirred some of the sauce through some pasta for them. They had no idea that they were eating the “yucky lasagne sauce”. Hubby and I had the lasagne for dinner and it was wonderful.
Our favourite lasagne recipe! Have made it meaty a couple of times but it is perfect without the meat.
Husband is anaphylactic to mushrooms – suggestions on what I can replace them with