Engine 2 Healthy Vegetable Lasagna

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Engine 2 Healthy Vegetable Lasagna

This Engine 2 Healthy Vegetable Lasagna is brimming with hearty vegetables, creamy sweet potatoes and topped with crunchy bits of crushed cashews! Your family won't even care it is healthy!

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Course: Entree

Cuisine: Italian

Servings: servings

Calories: 147kcal

Author: Fox Valley Foodie

Ingredients

½ large onion chopped
1 clove garlic chopped
4 ounces mushrooms sliced
1 small head broccoli chopped
1 carrot chopped
1 red bell pepper seeded and chopped
½ ounce can corn rinsed and drained, 15
¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
½ teaspoon oregano
½ teaspoon basil
½ teaspoon rosemary
2 25 oz jars pasta sauce
1 box whole grain lasagna noodles
10 oz frozen chopped spinach thawed and drained
2 large sweet potatoes cooked and mashed
3 roma tomatoes sliced thin
1 cup cashews crushed
Oil for sauteeing
Salt

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Heat small amount of oil in saute pan, add onions and cook for 5 minutes, then add mushrooms and continue cooking till onions and mushrooms have softened and moisture has cooked out of the mushrooms. Lightly salt. Add garlic and cook till fragrant. Remove to large bowl.
Heat additional oil in the pan if needed and add broccoli and carrots to pan. Cook until carrots are starting to soften and remove from pan before broccoli beings to burn. Lightly salt while cooking. Remove from pan and place in vegetable bowl.
Add peppers and corn to the pan and cook till peppers are starting to soften. Remove before corn burns. Add to vegetable bowl along with seasonings.

Assembly

Ladle sauce in the bottom of a 9x13 lasagna pan and add noodles on top of sauce and add an additional layer of sauce above the noodles. This helps the noodles soften during baking.
Add sauteed vegetable mixture in a layer then top with an additional noodle layer. Cover the noodles with additional sauce then create a layer of chopped spinach and mashed sweet potatoes.
Add another layer of sauce, the final layer of noodles, and cover with a single layer or sliced tomatoes.
Cover with foil and bake at 400 degrees for 45 minutes. Remove the foil, add crushed cashews and bake for an additional 15 minutes. Let sit 15 minutes prior to serving.

Notes

There is a lot of prep work for this recipe. I recommend starting your cooking as you are prepping your vegetables, rather than cutting all of your vegetables first.

This recipe is well suited to be doubled. Make a second batch and freeze it.

It isn't nessesary to pre-cook the noodles, but you are welcome to par-boil them if desired.

If you don't cook your sweet potatoes in advance, slice them in half lengthwise and throw them in the oven at 425 degrees while you prep your vegetables. They should be done baking right around the time you are beginning to assemble the lasagna.

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