Cheesy Ackee Pak Choi Lasagna

 Cheesy Ackee Pak Choi Lasagna

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Cheesy Ackee Pak Choi Lasagna- (Vegan Lasagna) Jamaican Style

 

Ingredients

1.      Lasagna Strips- 9 (depending on how wide your dish is)

2.      Ackee- 1 ½ doz - cooked

3.      Pak Choi- 4 cups chopped

4.      Carrots- 1 cup minced

5.      Escallion- ½ cup

6.      Veggie Mines- 4 cups- soaked

7.      Sweet pepper- ¼ cup

8.      Black Pepper- 1 tsp

9.      Garlic- 1 tbsp- chopped

10.  Vegetable cheese- 6 cups- shredded

11.  Cheese sauce- 2 cups

12.  Breadcrumbs- 2 cups

13.  Tomato- ½ cup

14.  Parsley- ¼ cup

15.  Onion- ¼ cup

16.  Prego Tomato sauce- 1 cup

17.  Vegetable oil- 2 tbsp

18.  Salt- 2 tsp

19.  Vegetable stock- ½ cup

 

Method

1. Soak veggie minces with 2 cups hot water and cover until the water has been absorbed completely.

2. Boil lasagna strips according to the package and set aside.

3. Cook the ackee with 2 cups veggie minces and pak choi together.

 

4. In a large saucepan heat vegetable oil and sauté onion, carrot and 2 cups veggie minces. Add vegetable stock and season with salt and pepper, add thyme and the Prego sauce and let reduce for 5 minutes over low flame

 

5.  Grease the lasagna dish and preheat the oven to 350° F.

 

6. When the ackee, veggie minces and pak choi are finished lay the lasagna lengthwise in the dish then add the breadcrumbs, veggie minces mixture, prego sauce mixture, vegetable cheese, cheese sauce, bread crumbs and another layer of lasagna strips and repeat the process until all the lasagna strips have been used.

 

7.  Before placing the lasagna in the oven add some vegetable cheese on the top along with some cheese sauce

 

8. Place the lasagna in the oven for about 20 mins.

 

9. Remove the lasagna from the heat and sprinkle some vegetable cheese on top then bake for a further     10 mins until cheese melts.

 

10. When finished place on a cooling rack and after the cooling process has ended garnish with some tomato roses’ parsley or celery leaves.

 

 

Recipe created by Shanna- Gaye Prince