Lasagna with spinach is considered difficult to prepare. Although in reality there is nothing complicated, and cooking does not take much time from the hostesses. Many people prefer to make lasagna without herbs and vegetables. However, spinach gives the finished dish a hint of freshness and an interesting look.
The main ingredients of lasagna
The main products for the preparation of lasagna are eggs, cheese and dough. When choosing the ingredients, it is important to get everything fresh. So the dish will turn out delicious and aromatic.
- Cheese must be real. Chefs do not recommend buying cheese products for lasagna.
- It is better to choose the dough chilled, but dry and their durum wheat is also suitable.
- Additional ingredients included in the recipe must be selected with high quality and avoid expired and improperly stored products.
Spinach lasagna is not considered a classic way of cooking, but it is popular with people who eat proper diets and diets. You can buy dough for such an Italian treat in a store or cook it yourself.
Classic Lasagna Dough
You can cook it from wheat flour (200 g), chicken eggs (100 g), olive oil (40 ml) and salt.
The flour is sifted, a small hole is raked in the center. Eggs are broken into it, oil is poured and salt is added. Future dough is kneaded with a fork from the edge to the center. After a dense mass is formed, it is kneaded with hands.
The dough is divided into several parts. They are rolled into thin rectangles. Their edges are trimmed evenly.
The dough for lasagna is ready, it can be dried or immediately used.
Recipes
There are a lot of recipes for spinach lasagna. If the dish is being cooked for the first time, then you should choose the most simple way of cooking with the least amount of ingredients.
With cheese and spinach
Lasagna with spinach and cheese can be prepared from the following set of ingredients:
- 500 g spinach;
- 10 g of fresh garlic;
- 260 g dough for lasagna;
- 280 g of hard cheese;
- 200 g of chicken eggs;
- 400 ml cream;
- 70 g of tomatoes;
- 50 g carmen onions;
- 300 g minced meat;
- 30 ml of sunflower oil.
Of spices you need salt and black pepper.
- The cheese is cleaned of the paraffin layer and ground on a grater with large cells.
- Garlic with onions are peeled and chopped into small cubes.
- Tomatoes are washed and cut into thin sticks.
- The oil is heated in a pan, the onion is fried until a light golden hue, after which garlic is added to it and everything is cooked for another 5 minutes.
- Then tomatoes with minced meat are laid out in the pan and fried until tender.
- Spinach is chopped and fried until soft.
- In a separate bowl, beat eggs with cream, salt and pepper.
- The baking dish is greased with a small amount of oil, a layer of dough is laid out in it.
- A piece of minced meat, spinach and cheese is placed on it, a layer of dough and filling is laid out.
- Each layer is poured with sauce.
- After laying out all the layers and ingredients, the form is placed in the oven, heated to 200 degrees.
After 50 minutes, the dish will be ready. It can be taken out and laid out in portioned plates. You can decorate the dish with olives, lemon slices or fresh herbs. This lasagna goes well with semi-sweet red wine.
With ricotta and spinach
You can make lasagna with spinach and ricotta from the following:
- 260 g sheets for lasagna;
- 500 g spinach;
- 40 g chopped pine nuts;
- 220 g ricotta;
- 180 g of gorgonzola;
- 180 g mozzarella;
- 100 g parmesan;
- 20 g butter;
- 30 ml of Bechamel sauce.
Of spices you need salt and pepper. If desired, you can use dill.
- In a pan without oil, nuts are slightly fried.
- The spinach is washed, cut into thin strips and stewed in oil and water until tender.
- Spinach with ricotta is transferred to the blender bowl. Half the sauce is poured with part of the parmesan and crushed to a consistency of a homogeneous paste.
- Small pieces of gorgonzola and seasonings are laid out in it in the required quantity.
- In a large pan, sheets of dough are boiled in turn.
- A small amount of sauce is poured into the baking sheet and a layer of dough is laid out with a filling of pasta, nuts and chopped mozzarella.
- According to this scheme, all layers of the dish are laid out.
- The baking sheet is placed in the oven, heated to 180 degrees.
After about 35 minutes, the dish can be removed and served.
With potatoes and spinach
Lasagna with spinach can be varied with potatoes. So the dish will turn out more nutritious and nutritious.
You can cook it from the following products:
- 120 g of hard cheese ("Russian" is well suited);
- 300 ml of chicken stock;
- 70 g chopped parmesan;
- 30 g of corn starch;
- 900 g of white potatoes;
- 10 g chopped nutmeg;
- 30 g of fresh garlic;
- 400 g spinach;
- 30 ml olive oil;
- 300 ml of medium fat milk;
- 100 g onions;
- 300 g of dough for lasagna.
Of the spices you will need salt and black pepper (ground).
- Starch is poured into a deep bowl and mixed with chicken broth.
- Garlic with onions is peeled and washed. Onions are cut into small pieces, and garlic is passed through a special press.
- Oil is heated in a frying pan, and onion is fried in it until golden hue.
- After, the remaining ingredients from the bowl are added to the onion and mixed.
- Then a nutmeg with pepper is poured into the pan and milk is gradually poured. Everything is heated and removed by fire.
- Hard cheese is ground on a grater with medium cells, added to the sauce and mixed until smooth.
- The potato is peeled, washed and rubbed on a coarse grater. After that, it is wrung out and transferred to a deep bowl.
- Rinse the spinach under running water, dry it with paper towels and chop it.
- The baking dish is greased with oil and a couple of sheets of lasagna dough are laid out on it.
- A part of potatoes and spinach moves to the dough. All is poured with a little sauce.
- The remaining ingredients are laid out in layers and poured with sauce.
- The baking sheet is covered with a sheet of foil and placed in an oven, heated to 200 degrees for 90 minutes.
After the time has elapsed, you can remove the foil from the pan and place it in the oven for another 12 minutes. After this, lasagna is taken out and cut into portioned pieces.
According to the same recipe, you can cook lasagna with spinach, potatoes and zucchini. In such a dish, everything is done according to the points described above. Zucchini is peeled, chopped with large cells and mixed with potatoes.
You can decorate the finished dish with fresh herbs of parsley and dill.
With cottage cheese and spinach
The recipe for lasagna with spinach and cottage cheese is quite simple to make.
To do this, you will need:
- 10 sheets of dough for lasagna;
- 450 g of cottage cheese;
- 280 g spinach;
- 10 g of garlic;
- 550 ml of Bechamel sauce;
- 130 g minced Parmesan cheese;
- 150 g of eggs.
From spices you need pepper, chopped black and salt.
- Garlic is peeled and chopped in a blender with spinach until smooth.
- In a separate bowl, the prepared mass is mixed with cottage cheese, eggs and a piece of cheese. Everything is carefully seasoned and mixed.
- A small amount of sauce is poured into the baking dish and 2 sheets of dough are laid out.
- They are filled with cottage cheese pasta and sprinkled with sauce.
- All layers and ingredients are laid out.
- At the end of the lasagna, it is watered with the rest of the sauce and sprinkled with cheese.
- The form is placed in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees.
After 40 minutes, the dish will be ready. It is recommended to darken it for another 5 minutes in a cooling oven and after laying out on plates. The dish should be decorated with herbs and aromatic herbs.
Cooking secrets
Lasagna with spinach is more aromatic when fresh herbs are added.
Dry, prepared sheets of dough can not be boiled if the sauce is more than 300 ml.
If you use several types of cheese in the recipe, the taste of the finished dish will be multifaceted.
Lasagna with spinach is a very tasty and fragrant dish. It quickly and permanently satisfies the feeling of hunger. Such a treat is suitable for a family meal or meeting guests, as well as for a festive table.