Roasted Vegetable Summer Lasagne

We had the family pop in for dinner on Friday evening on their way to Plymouth to catch the ferry to France. I knew it would be a bit of a tight squeeze time wise and so I had decided to make the 'cheat's lasagne' aka Summer Lasagne but with roasted vegetables instead of spinach and mushrooms.  

There were some lovely yellow courgettes on the market stall this week so I chopped them up with some peppers, shallots, red onions, garlic and aubergine and roasted them, the night before.

I then put the lasagne together on Friday evening. I put a can of chopped tomatoes in with the roasted veggies and then layered the veggies, fresh lasagne sheets and crème fraîche mixed with some grated cheese, nutmeg and salt and pepper, twice and grated some cheese on the top. I served it with some delicious creamy new potatoes, grated beetroot and carrot and rocket salad. As you can see I completely forgot to take any photos! It went down well though. I then served the lemon polenta cake which was well received but no one guessed the unusual ingredient!

Summer Lasagne

I found this lovely looking recipe for 'Cheat's Mushroom and Spinach Lasagne' on the Cook Vegetarian website. Having made it and found it to be light and tasty I have renamed it Summer Lasagne.

I followed the instructions but layered in my own way and misread the bit about the tomatoes so, having layered it all without the tomatoes, I pulled it all apart again and just put them in without having reduced them.

I was then very sceptical about the outcome but was pleasantly surprised. The only think I would do differently is double the filling, well not the tomatoes but certainly the spinach and mushrooms as the flavours didn't come through very strongly. The 'cheat's' cheese sauce was really nice, it was just seasoned crème fraîche but  I think it was the nutmeg that made it. 

I served it with some boiled new potatoes. I have to write about them because they were absolutely delicious.  They came from the market stall as usual and were labelled as Devon new potatoes. They came all covered in dirt and were so light and creamy that no butter was necessary at all.