Vegan lasagna

Some days ago i found a recipe of vegan lasagna here, so i wanted to test it out! I haven't eaten lasagna for some years now (except for a vegetable lasagna that kinda failed since it didn't taste so good xD), so it was cool tasting "normal" lasagna again! =D It failed a bit though since the lasagna plates weren't cooked good so they were still hard, so next time i will use more water in the recipe and hope they cook then, or cook them longer =p I also got empty of the white sauce at the end, so i had to make a bit more =p And i skipped the pine nuts, and added basil and oregano in the TVP mixture for more taste ^.^ (for those who don't know, TVP = textured vegetable protein, the kind i used was TVP mince which is mince consistency, but there are chunk(ball) consistencies also but i think mince fits the most in this recipe)

Here is the recipe copy-pasted (and changed some stuff) from Like a Vegan her blog, all credits goes to the author of the recipe and not to me since i just followed the recipe (more or less). Btw there's more cool recipes on the blog worth checking out i think =p

Meaty Lasagne

Difficulty: Medium
Serves Four


Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups TVP
• 3 stock cubes (i used vegetable stock cubes ^.^)
• 1 tablespoon minced garlic
• 1 small red onion, finely chopped (other colors should work aswell xD)
• 2/3 to 1 large jar of tomato pasta sauce (+spices like oregano and basil if you want ^.^)
• 1/3 cup vegan margarine/butter
• 1/4 cup plain flour
• 1/2 cup soy milk
• 3 large sheets of instant lasagne (oh shit it needed to be instant? xD that explains why mine weren't cooked xD)
• Salt and pepper to taste
• Handful of pine nuts (can be skipped =p)

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180°C
2. Prepare the TVP as per packaging and crumble in the stock cubes, mix well.
3. In a large frypan, fry the onion and garlic until onion starts to turn translucent.
4. Add the TVP mixture and combine well, keep stirring over the heat for about 3 minutes.
5. Throw in the pasta sauce, you should base how much you used on your personal preference. (and maybe some water also if your mixture is pretty "dry" =p)
6. Set the TVP mixture aside and melt the margarine in the microwave.
7. With a fork, whisk in the flour and microwave for a further 1 minute. (lol after 10-20 sec mine was boiling like hell, so be careful with this =p)
8. Whisk in the soy milk until the sauce is creamy.
9. Add salt and pepper to taste (add some garlic too if you’d like)
10. In a greased 8×8 oven-proof dish, add a layer of the TVP mixture to the bottom followed by 1 1/2 of the lasagne sheets. Chuck a layer of white sauce, then more TVP, then lasagne, then TVP and finish it off with a nice thick layer of white sauce.
11. Sprinkle with pine nuts and bake for about 20 minutes.

Hope you enjoy ;) i did for sure! xD Now gotta buy more TVP though, but i think i will test it out with red lentils maybe, that might work as well =p