Four Cheese Vegetable Lasagna

Title:
Four Cheese Vegetable Lasagna

Yield:
9 Servings

Categories:
Meatless,
Pasta




Ingredients:





    12    Whole lasagna noodles,


          -uncooked


     2 ts Vegetable oil, or cooking


          -spray


     2 c  Broccoli, chopped


 1 1/2 c  Carrot, thinly sliced


     1 c  Green onion, thinly sliced


   1/2 c  Red bell pepper, chopped


     3    Cloves garlic, minced


   1/2 c  Flour, all purpose


     3 c  1% low-fat milk


     2 oz Parmesan cheese, grated


   1/4 ts Salt


   1/4 ts Pepper


    10 oz Frozen chopped spinach,


          -squeezed dry


 1 1/2 c  1% low-fat cottage cheese


     4 oz Part-skim mozzarella cheese


   1/2 c  Swiss cheese, shredded


          Freshly ground pepper






 Cook lasagna noodles, omitting salt and fat. Drain; set aside. Preheat oven


 to 375F. Heat oil in a Dutch oven coated with cooking spray over medium


 heat until hot. Add broccoli and next 4 ingredients (broccoli through


 garlic), and satue 7 minutes. Set aside. Place flour in a medium saucepan.


 Gradually add milk, stirring with a whisk until blended. Bring to a boil


 over medium heat; cook 5 minutes or until thick stirring constantly. Add


 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese, salt, and pepper; cook 1 minute, stirring


 constantly. Remove from heat; stir in spinach. Reserve 1/2 cup spinach


 mixture for top layer of sasserole, and set aside. Combine cottage cheese,


 mozzerella dn Swiss cheese; stir well. Spread 1/2 cup spinach mixture in


 bottom of 13 x 9 inch baking dish coated with cooking spray. Arrange 4


 lasagna noodles over spinach mixture in dish; top with half of cottage


 cheese mixture and half of remaining spinach mixture. Repeat layers, ending


 with noodles. Spread reserved 1/2 cup spinach over noodles, sprinkle with


 Parmesan cheese. Cover and bake at 375F for 35 minutes. Let stand 10


 minutes before serving. Sprinkle with pepper, if desired


 


 NOTES : This is one of the top ten recipes in the 10th Anniversary issue of


 Cooking Light


 


 Recipe by: Cooking Light YEAR: 1997:Apr PAGE 117 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest


 V1 #527 by Terry Pogue 
on Mar 20, 1997