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    Oh My Veggies » Vegan Recipes » Vegan Main Dishes

    Lasagna Verde from Healthy Happy Vegan Kitchen

    Published: May 4, 2015 · by Nicole · Updated: Jan 19, 2023 · This post may contain affiliate links.

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    vegan lasagna verde being served

    This vegan lasagna verde is packed with protein and healthy flavor from tofu, jalapeno pesto, and creamy cashew ricotta. Yum!

    vegan Lasagna Verde being served in a white dish
    This recipe comes from the cookbook, Happy Healthy Vegan Kitchen. It's being shared with permission from the author.

    Since September, my husband and I have been living in a rental while we house-hunted and then renovated the house we bought. Almost everything we own has been in storage since then too and I've been surprised by the things I miss and the things I thought I'd miss, but really don't.

    What do I miss the most? My cookbook collection.

    I miss my cookbooks! Yes, the internet has eleventy-billion recipes at our fingertips, but it's just not the same as a book in hand; browsing a website is so different from browsing through a cookbook.

    There's much more serendipity with a cookbook - I can't possibly look through every recipe on most websites, but I can do that with a cookbook and it often means something piques my interest that I might not have found online.

    That's why I get excited when my favorite bloggers come out with cookbooks—they let me get to know bloggers and the food they cook in a different way.

    Healthy Happy Vegan Kitchen


    Healthy Happy Vegan Kitchen is Kathy Patalsky's new cookbook—you might know her from her food blog Healthy Happy Life or from her other site, Finding Vegan. I've been a big fan of both for years.

    This is a comprehensive cookbook - it's not about a specific thing, instead it encapsulates what Kathy's blog is about and the recipes cover everything from breakfasts to baked goods.

    Many of Kathy's recipes are creative takes on classic dishes. They're not just "hey, I took a lasagna recipe and replaced the ricotta with tofu - now it's vegan!" This Lasagna Verde recipe takes traditional lasagna and makes it into something completely different.

    Tomato sauce is replaced with a spicy jalapeño pesto and thinly sliced tofu is swapped in for the protein. And then there's the Vegan Cashew Ricotta, which adds rich, creamy layers between the pesto, noodles and tofu. It's...so...good.

    You can get Healthy Happy Vegan Kitchen on amazon.com or anywhere awesome cookbooks are sold.

    vegan lasagna verde being served

    Vegan Lasagna Verde

    This vegan lasagna verde is packed with healthy flavor from tofu, jalapeno pesto, and creamy cashew ricotta.
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    Cook Time: 1 hour
    Total Time: 1 hour
    Course: Main Course, main dish
    Cuisine: Italian
    Diet: Vegan, Vegetarian
    Keyword: how to make lasagana verde, vegan lasagna verde, vegetarian lasagna verde
    Servings: 8
    Calories: 451kcal
    Author: Oh My Veggies

    Ingredients

    • 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
    • 12 lasagna noodles

    Spicy Jalapeño Pesto

    • 2 cups fresh basil leaves
    • 2 cups fresh spinach
    • ½ cup fresh lemon juice
    • ½ cup walnuts
    • ¼ cup raw pumpkin seeds
    • ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil
    • 1 jalapeño seeded
    • 1 to 3 cloves garlic

    Tofu

    • 14 ounces firm or silken tofu thinly sliced
    • ½ teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil
    • Few pinches of sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
    • 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast optional

    Cashew Ricotta

    • 1 ½ cups raw cashews soaked overnight
    • ½ to 1 ½ cups nondairy milk or water, see instructions
    • 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
    • Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

    Topping

    • ½ to 1 cup vegan mozzarella cheese shreds
    • ½ cup chopped fresh basil for garnish
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    Instructions

    • Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease a lasagna baking dish with the oil.
    • Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. As soon as the water comes to a boil, drop in 4 of the lasagna noodles and cook until tender, 10 to 12 minutes. Remove the cooked noodles and line them up to cover the bottom of the prepared baking dish. Repeat until all the noodles are cooked, transferring the cooked noodles to a side plate once you have covered the bottom of the baking dish. (If you are able to cook more than 4 noodles at a time without having them stick together, you can do that too.) Reserve ½ cup of the pasta cooking water.

    For the Spicy Jalapeno Pesto

    • In a high-speed blender, combine all the pesto ingredients with ⅓ cup of the pasta cooking water and blend, increasing the speed from low to high, until smooth. The pesto should be thick, yet easy to pour and drizzle, a tad thicker than the consistency of tomato sauce for pizza. Add more of the pasta cooking water, a spoonful at a time, if desired to thin out the texture of the pesto a bit. Pour the pesto into a bowl and set aside.

    For the Tofu

    • In a sauté pan, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Add the tofu slices and season with salt, pepper, and nutritional yeast (if using). Cook, stirring occasionally, until the tofu edges brown, 3 to 4 minutes. Set aside.

    For the Cashew Ricotta:

    • Drain the soaked cashews and rinse under warm water. Place the cashews in a food processor or high-speed blender.
    • Add the lemon juice and ½ cup of the liquid and process on high until smooth, which may take a few minutes depending on the strength of your food processor. The water will create a standard creamy texture, but using nondairy milk as the liquid will create an extra-creamy texture. When blending, if the ricotta is looking too dry, add more nondairy milk or water as needed. You want the end result to be a bit thicker than hummus. Fold in salt and pepper to taste.

    Make the Lasagna:

    • Add the tofu over the bottom layer of noodles in the baking dish. Top with a generous layer of the cashew ricotta, followed by a layer of pesto, a sprinkle of vegan cheese, and a layer of noodles. Add the remaining cashew ricotta and pesto and any remaining tofu. Top with another layer of noodles. You can layer the lasagna however you’d like, really, just be sure to finish off with a top generous layer of pesto sauce and a sprinkle of vegan cheese.
    • Cover tightly with foil and bake for about 40 minutes. The top of the lasagna will be rippled and drier in texture, and the layers will be moist and tender. The edges should be lightly browned but not overcooked or crispy. Remove the foil, turn the oven to broil, and broil for 1 to 2 minutes. Let cool for at least 20 to 30 minutes in the baking dish before slicing and serving. This cooling time before serving is important. Do not serve too hot or the layers will fall apart too easily. Top with fresh basil to serve. Serve warm.

    Notes

    This recipe comes from the cookbook, Happy Healthy Vegan Kitchen. It's being shared with permission from the author.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 451kcalCarbohydrates: 43gProtein: 13gFat: 26gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 7gMonounsaturated Fat: 13gTrans Fat: 0.001gSodium: 27mgPotassium: 452mgFiber: 4gSugar: 4gVitamin A: 1237IUVitamin C: 15mgCalcium: 90mgIron: 3mg
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    1. Anna says

      May 05, 2015 at 5:18 am

      sounds so good!! yumm

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    2. Jennifer @ Delicious Everyday says

      May 06, 2015 at 7:18 am

      That looks really yummy! Love that it's green. Makes it look so invitingly healthy!

      Reply
    3. ani says

      June 08, 2015 at 5:22 pm

      wow jalapeno pesto... with spinach?! so cool

      Reply

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