Four-cheese vegetable lasagna

9 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
12 Uncooked lasagna noodles
2 teaspoons Vegetable oil
Cooking spray
2 cups Chopped broccoli
1½ cup Thinly sliced carrot
1 cup Sliced green onions
½ cup Chopped red bell pepper
3 Cloves garlic
½ cup All-purpose flour
3 cups 1% low-fat milk
½ cup Grated Parmesan cheese; divided
¼ teaspoon Salt
¼ teaspoon Pepper
10 ounces Frozen chopped spinach; thawed --drained and squeezed dry
1½ cup 1% low-fat cottage cheese
1 cup Mozzarella cheese; part skim milk, shredded
½ cup Shredded Swiss cheese
Freshly ground pepper; optional

Directions

1. Cook lasagna noodles, omitting salt and fat. Drain; set aside.

2. Preheat oven to 375 oF.

3. Heat oil in a Dutch oven coated with cooking spray over medium heat until hot. Add broccoli and next 4 ingredients (broccoli through garlic), and saute 7 minutes. Set aside. 4. Place flour in a medium saucepan. Gradually add milk, stirring with a whisk until blended. Bring to a boil over medium heat; cook 5 minutes or until thick, stirring constantly. add ¼ cup Parmesan cheese, salt and pepper; cook 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat; stir in spinach. Reserve ½ cup spinach mixture for top layer of casserole, and set aside.

5. Combine cottage cheese, mozzarella, and Swiss cheese; stir well. Spread ½ cup spinach mixture in bottom of a 13 x 9 inch baking dish coated with cooking spray. Arrange 4 lasagna noodles over spinach mixture in dish; top with half of cottage cheese mixture, half of broccoli mixture, and half of remaining spinach mixture. Repeat layers, ending with noodles. Spread reserved ½ cup spinach mixture over noodles; sprinkle with ¼ cup Parmesan cheese. Cover and bake at 375 oF for 35 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes before serving. Sprinkle with pepper, if desired.

Yield: 9 servings.

Calories 341 (22% from fat); fat 8.4g (sat 4.3g, mono 2.2g, poly 1.1g); protein 21.6g; carb 44.9g; fiber 3.7g; chol 21mg; iron 3.2mg; sodium 457 mg.

Recipe by: Cooking Light Magazine, April 1997, page 117 Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V4 #9 by ksonness@... on Feb 28, 1999, converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.

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