Two Healthy And Low Fat Lasagna Recipes (rajiv tiwari)

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Low Fat Lasagna With Aubergine

Ingredients:

* ? tablespoon olive oil
* ? finely chopped clove of garlic
* 1 cubed aubergine
* 14 ounce packet of defrosted spinach, chopped
* 40 ounce of tomato sauce jar
* ? pound lasagna

Directions:

1. To start making the lasagna recipe, preheat your oven to 375 degrees.

2. Put the oil in a frying pan and heat over a medium flame. Saut? the garlic for two minutes, add the aubergine and stir well.

3. Cover the pan and fry until the aubergine is just tender, for around 4-5 minutes.

4. Put a little less than 2 cups of tomato sauce in a lasagna baking dish and cover the bottom. Then put around 4 of the lasagna noodles on top and add another thin layer of sauce. Add the cooked aubergine and a thin layer of sauce. Put another layer of noodles followed by a little more sauce and then the spinach. Add the remaining lasagna noodles and sauce.

5. Cover the dish well with foil and bake for around 45 minutes.

6. Your lasagna is ready to serve!

Low Fat Lasagna With Minced Chicken

Ingredients:

* ? jar of low-fat spaghetti sauce
* ? can fat-free chicken stock (16-ounce)
* 1 egg
* 1 crushed garlic clove
* 4 ounces grated part-skim mozzarella cheese
* 1 cup low-fat ricotta cheese

* ? pound lean minced chicken
* ? package defrosted chopped spinach
* ? finely chopped onion
* ? pound sliced mushrooms
* ? teaspoon soy sauce
* ? teaspoon balsamic vinegar
* 4 ounces lasagna noodles
* Salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

1. To start making your lasagna preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Brush oil at the bottom of a lasagna baking.

3. Mix ? cup of the chicken stock with the spaghetti sauce and keep aside. Whisk the egg, stir in ricotta cheese and one cup of the mozzarella. Put garlic, salt and pepper and set aside.

4. Brown the minced chicken and add salt and pepper. Cook the spinach until it is half done.

5. Fry the onion in ? cup chicken stock till it is translucent. Cook the mushrooms in the remaining ? cup of stock and add soy sauce and vinegar. Simmer until all liquid is absorbed. Mix together chicken, spinach, onions and mushrooms.

6. Put a layer of sauce in the bottom of the dish. Add one layer of the lasagna noodles followed by more sauce, 1/3 of the cheese mixture and 1/3 of the spinach/chicken mixture. Repeat until the spinach mixture and sauce are over.

7. Bake for 45 minutes, until liquid around the edges has been absorbed in the lasagna. Sprinkle remaining mozzarella on top and bake for 15 minutes more.

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