Cheat's Easy Lasagne
This recipe takes half the time of the traditional lasagne and tastes just as delicious. Just make a quick and rich marinara sauce to pour over your broken pasta sheets then finish with a creamy cheese & spinach topping. Pop in the oven for half an hour and enjoy!
Servings: 4 people
Ingredients
- ½ a jar of sun-dried tomatoes
- 4 Cloves of garlic 2 sliced 2 peeled
- 2 400g tins of Plum tomatoes
- 120g Fresh spinach around half a packet
- 250g Dried lasagne sheets roughly cracked into thirds
- 170g (1 small tub) DF cream cheese
- 50g Grated DF cheese
- 1 tsp Ground nutmeg
- Salt & pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C and start making the sauce. Pour the sun-dried tomatoes into a large saucepan over a high heat and let the oil get hot before adding your sliced garlic. Turn down the heat to medium and let the garlic gently fry for a minute until fragrant and starting to brown.
- Tip in the plum tomatoes, season then blitz with a hand held blender until smooth. Leave to simmer whilst prepping the rest.
- Boil the spinach with the garlic cloves and remove once wilted. Using the same water add your lasagne shards and simmer for 10 minutes or until the sheets are tender. Stir occasionally to stop them sticking together.
- Meanwhile, chop the spinach and garlic together then mix together in a bowl with the cream cheese, grated cheese, ground nutmeg, and season to taste with salt & pepper.
- Drain your lasagne sheets and pour them into in a large baking dish followed by your sauce. Mix and tear apart any sheets that may have stuck to together. Dollop the spinach and cheese mix over the top and swirl around a bit.
- Cover with tinfoil and bake for 20 minutes, remove the tinfoil and let it crispen around the edges for the remaining 10 minutes. Serve with a green salad and light vinaigrette.