Lasagna - Who has a 'Clean' Recipe??

[Sarge]

[WonderWoman]

I only wish, lol... but I can't eat that stuff anyhow.

I did see some whole wheat ronzoni lasagna noodles in the supermarket the other day. That was cool. Maybe you can find some lo carb option noodle or so at the health food store. And use spinach and maybe try lofat everything. That is what I would do..

I make a killer lasagna and can't wait to make one and actually eat it!

[Sarge]

Exactly what I did so far... I just went shopping and threw some WW lasagna noodles and a lower carb sauce with no added junk in it.

I know Pebbles could come up with something flavorful but i was wondering if anyone had an outline to work from

[strawberryriddick]

I got something for ya.

Homemade Marinara
--1 can diced tomatoes
--1 diced, medium yellow onion
--5 baby portabella mushrooms, sliced
--3-5 tbl balsamic vinegar (vinegar, not vinegarette) (to taste)
--3-5 tbl scotch, whiskey, or burbon (to taste)
--3-5 tbl worchestershire sauce (to taste)
--salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, and "Italian Seasoning" to taste (add red pepper flakes if you want a kick)
--2-3 tbl olive oil (or your preference of butter substitute)
--However much Italian-style turkey sausage or vegan ground "meat" that you want (you want this to be a meaty sauce for your lasagna).

Heat a medium saucepan, then add olive oil. Wait a few seconds for it to heat up, add the onions. Sautee about 5-10 minutes, or until translucent. Add 15oz can diced tomatoes, seasonings, sliced sausage or vegan "meat", balsamic vinegar, alcohol, worchestershire. Simmer on medium low for 20 minutes. Add mushrooms.

The Lasagna
You'll need: homemade marinara, one 16oz tub fat-free cottage cheese*, 1/4 to 1/2 cup shredded low-fat parmesean, fontina, and/or asiago cheese (1/4 to 1/2 cup TOTAL), 1 package of lumpia wrapper**.

--Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
--In a casserole dish, add a little of the sauce on the bottom to prevent sticking.
--Layer lumpia wrapper. You want it to overlap a little, but don't go nuts...you're trying to save calories.
--Add more marinara and top it with cottage cheese, about 1/3 of the tub. Sprinkle a little of the Italian cheese.
--Layer with more lumpia wrapper and repeat until you reach almost the top of your casserole dish. Top with the remaining shredded Italian cheese.
--Bake 20 minutes, remove from oven and wait 5 minutes. Cut and serve as you normally would.


*Cottage Cheese comes in a fat-free option, unlike the traditional ricotta. They have a similar flavor. Cottage cheese is the curd, whereas ricotta is the reheated watery leftover (whey). They are both unaged, soft, white cheeses, and have a pretty similar flavor in Italian dishes. Great substitute.

**Lumpia wrappers are found in the frozen section of most large grocery stores. You can also use spring roll wrappers, they're the same thing. THEY ARE NOT EGG ROLL WRAPPERS. Those are completely different.
For one 7" lumpia wrapper, you get 93 calories, .5g fat, 18.5g carbs, and 3.1g protein.
For approx. the same amount of whole wheat lasagna noodles, you get 190 calories, 1g fat, 42g carbs, and 0g protein.

[CK]

vegitarian or meat?

[Sarge]

Awesome! Thanks, StrawberryR!

Originally Posted by CK

vegitarian or meat?

Must you ask?

these new smilies are fun. Oh, meat

[andrew_plamondon]

I made one this week with thinly sliced zucchini by using one of those chinese mandoline slicer. Some use eggplants too, but they should be cooked before using them instead of the pasta because they tend to pour water when they cook so the lasagna would be watery.

[jenscats5]

Just look for low-carb (like Dreamfield) or WW lasagna noodles, try not to use as many and add more veggies and use all white meats like ground turkey, chicken, vegetarian pepperoni, turkey sausage, etc.....

Also combine cottage cheese with FF ricotta and some LF or regular fat ricotta......Also hard (ie REAL) parmesan cheese is a hard cheese & is low in cals per serving so use some of that for flavor. And I ain't talking about the shaker can.

[DrewDog]

don't know how "clean" this is, but the g/f and I saw this sat morning and thought it look yummy

Recipes : Asparagus Lasagna : Food Network

shouldn't be too hard to clean it up a bit either. WW lasagna, low fat cheese, etc