Are you a lasagna lover? This zucchini lasagna is made with sliced zucchini strips instead of pasta noodles and is absolutely so delicious you will not even miss the noodles.
Quick, Easy, Healthy
But what you'll love most about it is how quick and easy you can prepare it. You can assemble it the night before and cook it when you get home from work.
It's always a challenge to find healthy recipes for your family that fit into your busy working schedule. This is an easy recipe which cuts down on carbs but not flavor. Truthfully, this recipe was very fast and easy to make and helped me use up some of the abundance of zucchini that I have right now. How much zucchini do you have ??
Loaded with Zucchini ?
I received 8 medium-large organic green and yellow zucchini from my CSA farm. It was truly a challenge to eat them all before they went bad. So, I made a variety of zucchini dishes this week. Each recipe was different from the others, and each was really delicious!
Zucchini is low calorie, low carb, and very diverse as you can see.
We enjoyed the following recipes this week:
- I've used my spiralizer to make raw Zoodles in Pesto Sauce for lunch-yum
- Baked Parmesan Zucchini Spears as a side dish
- Nona's zucchini quiche was a good dinner one night
However despite my zucchini frenzy, I still had 2 nice size zucchini left.
So, I took out my mandolin slicer ( love it) and quickly sliced up the remainder of my zucchini into thin strips. I didn't even pre cook the strips. I just lined them uncooked in a pyrex pie plate, layered in some ricotta cheese mixture, some more zucchini slices, some marinara sauce and some shredded cheese. Baked my lasagna for 55 minutes and enjoyed a meal for dinner!
I actually made two of lasagnas and put cooked broccoli raab in one of them .
I'm froze that one !
You could add any cooked veggies of your choice-
The prep for the recipe is a very fast and easy and it then bakes for about an hour
Author: Judee Algazi - Gluten Free A-Z Blog
Prep Time: 10-12 minutes
Cook Time: 50-60 minutes ( depending on your oven)
Pre-heat : 350 degrees
Ingredients:
1 medium/large zucchini, sliced thin ( I used a mandolin slicer)
2 cups of ricotta cheese
1/4 cup chopped parsely
1 egg, beaten
1/2 -3/4 cup of marinara sauce
1 cup of shredded cheese ( I used cheddar - could use mozzarella)
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix ricotta cheese, egg, parsley and 1/4 cup of the marinara sauce in a medium bowl and set aside.
Spray a 9 inch pyrex pie plate with cooking spray and then line thin zucchini slices to cover the bottom of a 9 inch pyrex pie pan.
Spread the zucchini with the ricotta cheese mixture.
Spread the ricotta cheese layer with another layer of zucchini slices.
Spread the remaining 1/4 cup of marinara sauce over the layer of zucchini and cover with the shredded cheese. Bake in 350 degree preheated oven for 50-60 minutes.
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| Make this layer twice |
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| End with cheese topping; then bake |
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You are really good in finding ways to eat healthier as well as to use of zucchini. In terms of deliciousness, did the zucchini give the same feel as the noodles do.? I would imagine the texture is really different.
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DeleteThe zucchini becomes very soft so it blends and taste very comforting.We have a ton of zucchini so I'm trying to find recipes to use it up
What a healthy meal! Thanks for sharing your recipe at the #AnythingGoes Link Party.
ReplyDeleteI just bought some zucchini and was looking for some new recipes to try out! Thanks for sharing at Merry Monday, hope to see you again next week!
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how many delicious and healthy recipes you can make with zucchini and you have some great ones here. Thanks for sharing on Real Food Fridays. Pinned & twitted.
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