Low - Carb Vegetable Lasagna

This recipe is the low-carb version of lasagna because I used baked eggplant as my noodles. Actually it was so good that both my 8 and 6 year olds had no problems eating all of their vegetables!

 

 

  

Servings Size

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Ingredients:

Noodles
2 large eggplants, peeled, sliced lengthwise into 1/4 inch noodle-like strips
cooking spray (olive oil spray is best)
salt and pepper

 

Meat Sauce
2 lbs of ground turkey, chicken or turkey sausage
2 T olive oil
2 onions, chopped

3 garlic cloves chopped

1 red pepper, chopped

1 (16 ounce) package sliced mushrooms

2 tablespoons Italian seasoning (or mix of oregano, basil and thyme)

salt and pepper

1 teaspoon red pepper flakes

1 (10 ounce) package frozen spinach

1 (28 ounce) can tomato puree

1 (15 ounce) can diced tomatoes

Cheese Mixture:

2 eggs

2 c. part-skim ricotta cheese

6 scallions chopped

3 c. mozzarella cheese

1/2 c.Parmesan cheese

Method:

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Spray cookie sheet, arrange eggplant slices and season with salt and pepper and cook slices 5 minutes on each side. Reduce oven heat to 375 degrees.

Brown meat, onion and garlic in olive oil for 5 minutes. Then add red pepper and mushrooms, and cook 5 more minutes. Add spinach, tomatoes, spices and simmer for 5-10 minutes.

In the meantime blend ricotta, egg and onion mixture.

Assembly:

Spread 1/3 of meat sauce in bottom of 9? x 13? glass pan.

Layer ½ eggplant slices, ½ ricotta, 1/3 mozzarella and parmesan.

Repeat.

Add last layer of sauce, then mozzarella and parmesan on top.

Cover with foil and bake at 375 degrees for 1 hour.

Remove foil and bake or broil another 5-10 minutes until cheese is browned.

 Let it rest 10 minutes before slicing, if you can wait that long!