Roasted Vegetable Lasagne

This is for my eldest daughter who prefers it to a meat based lasagne. I like both a meat lasagne and a roasted vegetable lasagne so I sometimes cook both in the same dish with a lasagne pasta barrier separating the two.
The vegetables are basically a ratatouille base, roasted in the oven and mixed with tinned tomato. Then the vegetables are layered with a cheese sauce and lasagne sheets and baked in the oven. Its really tasty and obviously full of vegetables so super healthy.

Ingredients

Mixture of vegetables to roast:

Courgettes x 2

Red, yellow or orange peppers x 2

Red onions x 2

Aubergine if you like it x 1

Olive oil

Mixed herbs

400g tin of chopped tomatoes

Ready to cook lasagne sheets – say 8 to 10

Cheese Sauce ingredients:

2 tablespoons of flour

2 tablespoons of butter/margarine or vegetable oil

350/400ml milk

Chunk of strong cheddar cheese – maybe 200g or so

Method

Turn your oven on to 200c. To make your roasted vegetable lasagne, chop the vegetables into 2cm sized pieces. Try and get them all a similar size. Place into a big roasting tin. There may look a lot there, but the vegetables will shrink. Sprinkle with a teaspoon of mixed herbs and a tablespoon of olive oil and stir well. Add some salt and pepper to season if you like. Pop into the oven for 20 minutes, set the timer. When it’s up give the veg a stir and cook for a further 10 minutes. Remove from the oven.

Make the sauce whilst the veg are roasting. Melt the butter in a small saucepan on a low heat and add the flour. Stir to combine and then add the milk slowly stirring well to make a smooth sauce. Grate the cheddar cheese and stir into the sauce until melted and combined.

Return to your roasted vegetables and add the tin of chopped tomatoes and stir well. Now build your lasagne. Take a rectangular baking dish. Place a sheet of lasagne in the bottom then add a third of the vegetables. Place single layer sheets of lasagne on top and add a third of the cheese sauce. Repeat two more times to use up the vegetables and cheese sauce. I try and leave a little bit more cheese sauce for the top layer as I want all the lasagne to be covered.

Turn the oven down to 180c. Put the lasagne in to bake for 30 minutes. Check the pasta is cooked before serving and then dish up. Great served with a salad and some garlic bread or dough balls.

If you liked this recipe, you might like my tomato sauce for pasta: https://cookingwithfi.com/tomato-sauce-pasta/