Pumpkin and spinach lasagna
A simple tasty lasagna for dinner, or enjoy the leftovers for lunch the next day. It freezes well too.
Ingredients
- 3 cups pumpkin, peeled and chopped (approx 1.2kg)
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 3 cups spinach or silverbeet
- 1 egg
- 500g cottage cheese
- 1/2 cup low-fat milk
- 1 packet of dried lasagna pasta (sheets or pieces, approx 300g)
- 400g can chopped tomatoes
- 1/2 cup edam cheese, grated
Method
- 1. Preheat oven to 180°C.
- 2. Place pumpkin in roasting tray, or until tender.
- 3. Once pumpkin is cooked, roughly mash and set aside.
- 4. Put spinach (or silverbeet) in a heatproof bowl and pour over enough boiling water to cover. Leave for 5 minutes, then drain and squeeze out most of the water.
- 5. In another bowl mix together cottage cheese, egg and milk. Set aside.
- 6. Spray a little oil into a large oven-proof dish.
- 7. To assemble lasagna, cover the base of the dish with one layer of pasta.
- 8. Spread 1/3 of tinned tomatoes evenly on top, along with half of the pumpkin, half the spinach and 1/3 of cottage cheese mixture.
- 9. Cover with another layer of lasagna, half of the remaining tinned tomatoes, all of the remaining pumpkin and spinach, and half of the remaining cottage cheese mixture.
- 10. Top with last of the pasta then remaining tinned tomatoes and cottage cheese mixture. Sprinkle with grated cheese.
- 11. Bake for 30 minutes until golden. Stand for 5 minutes before serving with a salad.