Club Recipes - Mains

Method:
- Pour 800ml boiling water over the dried
porcini and leave for 10 mins until hydrated.
- Meanwhile pour 1½ tbsp oil into a large
saucepan.
- Add the onion, carrot, celery and a pinch of
salt.
- Cook gently, stirring for 10 mins until
soft.
- Remove the porcini from the liquid, keeping
the mushroomy stock and roughly chop.
- Set both aside.
- Add the garlic and thyme to the pan.
- Cook for 1 min, then stir in the tomato
purée and cook for a minute more.
- Pour in the red grape juice, if using, cook
until nearly reduced, then add the lentils,
reserved mushroom stock and cans of tomatoes.
- Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and
leave to simmer with the lid on.
- Meanwhile, heat a large frying pan. Add 1½
tbsp oil, then tip all of the mushrooms into the
pan, including the rehydrated ones.
- Fry until all the water has evaporated and
the mushrooms are deep golden brown.
- Pour in the soy sauce.
- Give everything a good mix, then scrape the
mushrooms into the lentil saucepan.
- Stir in the Marmite, then continue to cook
the ragu, stirring occasionally, over a low to
medium heat for 30-45 mins until the lentils are
cooked and the sauce is thick and reduced,
adding extra water if necessary.
- Remove the thyme sprigs and season to taste.
- Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4.
- To make the white sauce, heat 3 tbsp olive
oil in a pan, whisk in the flour and cook for a
couple of minutes to get rid of the raw flour
taste, then slowly whisk in the soya milk.
- Cook until you have a creamy sauce, about 10
mins.
- Season to taste, adding a good grating of
nutmeg.
- Spread a third of the ragu on the bottom of
your ovenproof dish, then top with six lasagne
sheets, followed by another third of the vegan
white sauce, then another third of the ragu.
- Top with the remaining lasagne sheets, then
the remaining ragu and finally, spread over the
rest of the white sauce.
- Sprinkle over the nutritional yeast, if
using, and bake for 45 mins-1 hr until the pasta
is cooked.
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