Mary Berry's 'stress-free' vegetable lasagne is 'simple and delicious'

Whip up Mary Berry's 'foolproof' Melanzane Parmigiana without spending hours successful the kitchen. Plus, you tin usage dried lasagne sheets to support the outgo down - and cipher has to know

Wow your person and household with Mary Berry's veggie twist connected an Italian classic.

This 'foolproof' and 'stress-free' Melanzane Parmigiana requires conscionable 30 minutes prep time, and won't permission you with a room afloat of soiled cookware and pans. Plus, you tin frost immoderate leftovers (if that's adjacent a happening successful your household) for those lazy days wherever you conscionable truly can't beryllium bothered to cook.

Mary Berry serves this delicious lasagne with a dressed salad, but if you privation to whack immoderate ail breadstuff and chips successful the oven - we won't judge. So, let's get consecutive to it...

Mary Berry's rootlike lasagne recipe

Ingredients (Serves 6-8)

• 500g Passata
• 400g Tinned tomatoes
• 250g Mozzarella - ripped into pieces
• 115g Parmesan - grated
• 3-4 tbsp Olive Oil
• 2 tbsp Sun-dried herb paste
• 1 tbsp Fresh oregano - chopped
• 4 Garlic cloves - finely grated
• 3 Aubergines - chopped lengthways into 1cm slices
• 3 Lasagne sheets
• 2 Large onions - finely chopped
• Small clump of basil leaves - astir chopped
• Salt and pepper
• Dressed crockery leaves (to serve)

Method

• Preheat the oven to 220C/ 200C Fan/ Gas Mark 7. Then, enactment 2 ample barking trays with baking paper.
• Place the sliced aubergine connected the tray and brushwood with 1-2 tablespoons of lipid earlier seasoning good with brackish and pepper. Roast the rootlike for astir 20-25 minutes (until aureate and soft) and acceptable aside.
• Reduce the oven to down 20C oregon by 1 state mark. In a frying pan, vigor the remaining lipid implicit a precocious heat. Then, adhd the onions and navigator for 5 minutes, making definite to disturbance regularly.

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• Add the ail and navigator for 1 minute. Now, determination successful the tomatoes, passata, and sun-dried herb paste and little the vigor to simmer for 5 minutes. Add the caller herbs and play good with brackish and pepper.
• If you're utilizing dried lasagne sheets, you'll request to soak them successful a shallow crockery of boiling h2o for astir 5 minutes, earlier draining. However, you tin skip this portion if you've picked up caller lasagne sheets.
• In a shallow oven-proof crockery (around 1.7 litre) spoon successful a 4th of the herb condiment into the basal and and dispersed to the corners. Scatter a 4th of the mozzarella and parmesan connected apical and past laic fractional the aubergine slices connected the cheese.

• Spoon a 3rd of the remaining herb condiment connected top, past adhd the sheets of lasagne, followed by a 3rd of the remaining cheeses. You should beryllium starting to spot the layers amusement already!

• Spoon fractional of the remaining condiment connected top, past fractional of the remaining cheeses, followed by the remaining aubergine slices. Finally, apical with the remaining herb condiment and put the remaining cheeses successful 8 piles connected top.

• Cook for astir 30 minutes until bubbling and aureate and service with the dressed crockery leaves (or immoderate takes your fancy).

Et voila! An Italian classical made easy. You tin besides assemble this crowd-pleaser crockery up to 8 hours ahead, past simply fto it chill successful the fridge until acceptable to use.

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