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Easy Vegetable Lasagna Recipe

Lasagna With Bell Peppers and Walnuts

This is an easy vegetable lasagna recipe made with red bell peppers or capsicums, feta and a generous amount of walnuts.  Add spinach or peas to this dish, if you wish.

This lasagna is essentially flat pasta sheets layered with vegetables of your choice, cheese and a white sauce, called bechamel poured over and baked.

I found the feta is sufficiently tasty and there is no need for further seasoning.





Easy Vegetable Lasagna Recipe

This recipe makes enough for 8 generous servings of lasagna. 

Make the Bechamel or White Sauce

•    3 oz/100 gm butter
•    4 tb plain flour
•    6 cups milk

•    Melt butter on low to moderate heat.
•    Add flour, cook for a couple of minutes. It clumps together and looks like small pieces of dough
•    Pour in the milk all at once
•    Keep stirring till there are no lumps and the sauce thickens.  This will take about 15 minutes.  It's important that the milk does not boil.


Assemble the Vegetable Lasagna

•    4 bell peppers cut into large chunks
•    1 block/7oz/200gm feta or goat's cheese
•    2 cups of whole walnuts
•    12 instant lasagna sheets (They come in a standard box of 12 sheets)
•    2 cups shredded tasty or cheddar cheese


•    Preheat oven on to 380F/190C.
•   Spoon one layer of bechamel into the lasagna tray.
•    Add a layer of dry instant lasagna sheets straight from the box. There's no need to cook the pasta.
•    Ladle a layer of white sauce followed by 1/3 of the peppers, feta cheese and walnuts.
•    Repeat twice - a layer of lasagna sheets, followed by a layer of bechamel, then vegetables and nuts.
•    Pour the final layer of bechamel over the top. There will be more than enough for a generous amount of sauce
•    Sprinkle the top with shredded cheese.
•    Place in the center of the oven and cook for 35 minutes till the top is nicely brown.
•    Leave to rest for 10 minutes before serving.

Serve the lasagna hot accompanied with a crisp green salad and crusty bread.

Tips From Easy Recipes

  • If you'd like the lasagna to have extra texture and body, add diced carrots.
  • If you don't have a lasagna dish, use a rectangular oven proof dish with deep sides.
  • Don't overfill the dish as otherwise the liquid and cheese will bubble over making a mess of your oven.
  • Use dry lasagna sheets, straight from the box into the dish.  There's no need to pre-cook it.
  • Bechamel sounds scary, but it really is incredibly easy to make.
  • Substitute your another vegetable in place of bell peppers but I recommend a vegetable that is not "juicy" or it'll bake the lasagna too soft and wet.  Spinach is a good substitute.
  • You could have layers of different colored bell peppers for a striking tri-colored layers of red, green and orange, with red bell peppers, green spinach and orange pumpkin or carrots, in each of the three layers.

This is a no fuss, easy vegetable lasagna recipe.   The white sauce takes about 15 minutes to make and that is the fussiest part of this recipe, as you do have to constantly stir it.  But the assembly is straight forward. It's just layering of the pasta, sauce and cheese.

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