Sweet potato and spinach lasagne

Name: Sweet potato and spinach lasagne
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: Serves: 4
Ingredients: 250 g bag washed leaf spinach; 50 g butter; 50 g plain flour; 300 ml milk; pinch nutmeg; 2 large sweet potatoes, peeled and chopped into 2cm cubes; 1 quantity of 5-minute tomato sauce; 2 teaspoons black onion seeds; 6–8 sheets lasagne; 2 tablespoon olive oil; 150 g cheddar cheese, grated; salt and pepper

Preparation info

Serves:
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 15

Appears in

Lucy's Food

By Lucy Cufflin

Published 2013

About

Lasagne is a great dish to cram lots of lovely vegetables in to. Here, the sweet potatoes add colour and a wonderful texture, but once you’ve made the basic tomato sauce you can try adding your favourite vegetables to create different fantastic, vegetarian lasagnes.

Ingredients

2 large sweet potatoes, peeled and chopped into 2cm cubes
2 tablespoon olive oil
2 teaspoons</

Main course
Vegetarian

Method

Put the cubed sweet potatoes into a roasting tin with the oil and black onion seeds and season well. Roast, uncovered, for 20 minutes or until the potatoes are soft and browned.
While this is cooking, pierce the spinach bag and microwave for 3 minutes. Remove and chop roughly.
Melt the butter in a saucepan and add the flour. Add the milk and nutmeg, s