I wanted to make a
different sort of vegetarian lasagne than usually and started planning for this
dish. I normally make tomato sauce based lasagnes, but this one has
garlic and mushroom infused cream as the sauce. I used vegan oat
cream, which is quite light. However tomatoes are not fully missing
in this recipe, but they play a much smaller role.
The main mushroom
taste here comes from funnel chanterelles that are very intense in
their taste. These are part of the batch that The VegHog's father has
picked in Finland and dried.
This recipe makes
either one large dish lasagne or four small ones. Sometimes I quite
like making small individual dishes.
Lasagne sheets
200g double
Gloucester cheese grated
250g green beans
250g white cup
mushrooms
25g dried funnel
chanterelle mushrooms
2 shallots
3 garlic cloves
1tsp vegetable
stock powder
100g small
tomatoes
500ml oat cream (a
vegan cream substitute made of oats)
Nettle salt
(normal or herb salt will also do)
Ground black
pepper
Fresh sage leaves
Olive oil
First of all
prepare the sauce. Soak the dried funnel chanterelles in water with
vegetable stock powder for about 30 minutes. Drain the mushrooms, but
also save the water.
Peel the tomatoes
by making small cuts on them and dipping them into boiling water for
a few seconds. Then it should be easy to remove the skins. Crush the
skinned tomatoes.
Chop the shallots
and lightly fry them in olive oil. Then add the chopped garlic and
the funnel chanterelles and fry them also for a couple of minutes.
Add the oat cream and let lightly simmer for about 30 minutes to
infuse the cream. Add some of the mushroom soaking water for more
intense mushroom taste. Later add the crushed tomatoes into the sauce
and season it with salt, pepper and sage.
While the sauce is
simmering cut the green beans into short pieces of couple of
centimeters each and steam them for a few minutes until they are
almost soft.
Chop the white cup
mushrooms into slices and grate the cheese. Layer the mushrooms,
green beans, cheese, lasagne sheets and the mushroom sauce into an
oven dish on several layers. Cover the lasagne with grated cheese and
bake it at 180C for about 45 minutes.
Serve the lasagne
with a side salad and garlic and basil oil ciabatta. Make the
ciabatta when your lasagne is almost baked. Cut a ciabatta bread into
slices and spread a pureed garlic, basil and olive oil mix on them.
Then bake until crispy.
Stay hungry!
Your VegHog
Gorgeous! May I come to lunch?
ReplyDeleteSure, be my guest! :)
DeleteVery creative and delicious idea! Now I want to eat lasagna! Hahahah
DeleteI can just taste the mushrooms and sauce already.<3
I'll definitely be sharing this post. :)
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Glad you like it! It was such a mushroomy dish, but I also love stuff like this. It was a bit weird idea, but ended up being a brilliant dish.
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