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Welcome back. Today I am so excited to show you my vegan lasagna recipe because it is so good
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This is the second video in my vegan Christmas series because what could be more Christmas dinner than lasagna
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If you want to follow along with the recipe, I will put the link in the description box below
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Now let's get started. I'm going to start by preheating my oven to 375 degrees and I'm going to
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going to spray my casserole dish with some oil. I am making this lasagna with yellow squash
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and carrots. I normally use zucchini and carrots but they were out of it at the store so
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here we are. But you can also use other vegetables, you can use mushrooms. If you want a little bit
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of a meatier flavor, lentils work really well for that. And honestly I've even made lasagna
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half and half when I'm serving a lot of people with different tastes. So do you? Whatever
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you choose, you're going to want about three cups of it in total. So if you're making lentils, it's gonna be about one cup of dry lentils
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We'll give you three cups of cook lentils. Anyway, let's get on to preparing the veggies
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My carrots are peeled and I just going to slice the carrots and the squash into slices that are about an eighth of an inch to a quarter of an inch thick If the pieces end up being too big then I just cut them in half or quarters so that they bite size
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And my veggies are gonna go over into a sauce pan with some olive oil and I'll cook them over medium heat
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I wanna cook them until the squash is starting to brown and the carrots are forked tender
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which should take about 15 to 20 minutes. While I'm waiting for my veggies to finish
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I am just going to start heating up my water for the lasagna in a big pot
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Once the vegetables are done, I'm going to add 4.5 cups of marinera sauce and 1.5 tablespoons of brown sugar
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And I'm just going to stir that until the sauce is warm and the sugar has dissolved
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I would highly recommend that you use a really good high-quality sauce like rios because the flavor of the sauce really makes all the difference in the final dish
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My water is boiling now. So I'm just going to add a box of lasagna noodles and cook them according to
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to the package instructions. And to make things a little easier, I'm also gonna steam my spinach at the same time
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So I have a five ounce bag of baby spinach that I have chopped up
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and I'm just gonna add it to a sieve and let it sit over the top of the pot
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until it is wilted and dark green. So it should take just a few minutes
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Once my lasagna is cooked I gonna drain it And then I gonna lay it out on some parchment paper just because I don want it to get kinks or get stuck together So I have already prepared a batch
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of my vegan ricotta here. I'll leave a link in the description below
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for the recipe. I believe I also prepared it in my baked Ziti video
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so I'll leave a link for that video below as well. So I'm just gonna take my ricotta
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and I'm going to mix in two teaspoons of flour, a teaspoon of pepper
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and a teaspoon of onion powder. Once that's mixed up, then I'm gonna add
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the steamed spinach and a cup of vegan mozzarella. Now the vegan mozzarella is optional
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so you don't have to use it. I'm using Daya here, but I've also used By-Life
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and Trader Joe's vegan mozzarella with good results. Okay, so we have our layers ready
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Now we just have to put it all together. We're gonna start with our sauce and veggies
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We're taking about one fifth of it, and we're spreading it along the bottom of the pan
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And then we'll top that with three noodles, followed by a third of the ricotta mix
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and another fifth of the sauce. And we will repeat that series twice more
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So noodles, ricotta, sauce, noodles, ricotta, sauce. And then we finish it off with a top layer of noodles the rest of the sauce and some more vegan mozzarella I going to cover this with aluminum foil to bake it but first I going to
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spray the foil with some oil to make sure the cheese doesn't stick. And then we'll just bake it
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for 45 minutes. And we're done
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That's all for this one
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I have plenty more vegan Christmas recipes in the pipeline. So if you want to catch those, hit subscribe below
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If you can't wait for the videos to come out, there's also a link below to all my Christmas recipes on my website
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So you can check those out if you want. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in the next one
