This vegan lasagna is the best vegetable lasagna that you'll ever eat and it's vegan! With veggies, mushroom bolognese, noodles and easy creamy tofu ricotta cheese! Lasagna is protein packed and healthy too! Gluten free option.
Mmm lasagna! There is nothing basic about my vegan lasagna recipe! It’s rich hearty, meaty, cheesy and full of veggies. Absolutely delicious my husband says! My family loved it! My friend says her meat eating husband couldn't believe it was vegan!
There is no place close by where you can go and order vegan lasagna, big cities -yes! Small towns ahh -No! So it was time to vegenize it! And I was pretty excited to anyways. The ingredients are simple! It takes a bit of time but every good lasagna does and it’s so worth it!
So if this is your first time trying a plant based lasagna you're in for a treat! It's my finest creation!
How do you make Vegan Lasagna?
- Make Vegan Bolognese Sauce HERE Set aside (I usually make my sauce a day or two ahead or have some handy in the freezer.
- Follow instructions for Tofu Ricotta Cheese HERE
- Grill zucchini: Slice zucchini lengthwise into 1/4 inch strips, add to bowl with the oil and toss to combine. Grill on Bbq or grill pan set to med-high heat. Couple of minutes or more on each side until tender, with a slight bite. Set aside (If avoiding oil cook in pan with broth or water).
- Cook noodles according to instructions. Drain and add back to pot with cold water until needed.
- To assemble the lasagna: Preheat oven to 350° Spread 1 and 1/2 cups of sauce evenly in lasagna pan
- Add layer of noodles, over lapping a bit.
- Now add 1 and 1/2 cups or so of sauce, top with sliced zucchini, then tomato slices.
- Then add another layer of overlapping noodles, going the opposite direction this time. you will have to cut noodles to fit.
- Now add the tofu cashew ricotta, and spread evenly over the noodles.
- Top with chopped spinach, and another 1 and 1/2 cups or so of sauce
- Add your final layer of overlapping noodles , going in opposite direction again.
- Now add your final 1 and 1/2 cups or so of sauce.
- Cover with foil and bake for 45 minutes. Remove from oven, uncover and add your cheese slices and a couple twists of the salt and pepper mill. Return to the oven uncovered for another 10 minutes so cheese melts.
- Let sit for at least 1o minutes to cool slightly. Slice and Enjoy with a green salad or Vegan Caesar Salad and No Knead artisan Bread or garlic bread!
For full recipe ingredients and instructions see recipe card below.
Earth Island Mozzarella or Provolone ( also goes under the name "Follow your Heart) is great on this lasagna but if your feeling energetic my Vegan Mozzarella is amazing!
Vegan Lasagna Q & A:
Can this be made gluten free?
- Absolutely just swap out regular lasagna noodles for gluten free! Easy Peasy!
What ingredients do you put in a Vegan Lasagna?
- An excellent vegan lasagna is a no brainer when you have an amazing bolognese sauce to start with, then it’s just a matter of layering in those flavours between lasagna sheets with tofu cashew ricotta, grilled zucchini, fresh sliced tomatoes, spinach, creamy vegan cheese and baking in the oven. Sound good yet?! Oh yah!
Can I use store bought marinara and no boil lasagna sheets?
- Now if you want to speed up the lasagna process a bit you could definitely use an easy store bought chunky marina sauce, saute some onions, mushrooms and vegan meat crumbles in olive oil and add it in to the red sauce and use no boil lasagna noodles.
- I highly recommend trying it with my pasta sauce and old fashioned lasagna noodles, the flavour will blow you away! Vegetarians and meat eaters go crazy for my dairy free and meatless lasagna and you will too! Enjoy!
Can it be frozen?
- Absolutely! Vegan lasagna will last in the fridge for 4-5 days and freezes well. To reheat from frozen: defrost in the fridge overnight and reheat in the microwave or covered in a 350° oven for 30 minutes or so until heated through. Perfect for your weekly meal plan!
Ok people lets march into the kitchen and make some Lasagna, it's:
vegan
meaty
comfort food at it's finest!
protein packed
full of vegetables
the best!
kid friendly
hearty and rich
easily gluten free
a delicious vegan dinner
So satisfying
Enjoy guys! Happy day to you? feel free to leave a comment and a rating below. I would love to hear from you.
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- Ultimate Vegan Chili Recipe
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The Finest Vegan Lasagna
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 55 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 25 minutes
- Yield: 8-10 Servings 1x
- Diet: Vegan
Description
This vegan lasagna is the best vegetable lasagna that you'll ever eat and it's vegan! With veggies, mushroom bolognese, noodles and easy creamy tofu ricotta cheese! Lasagna is protein packed and healthy too! Gluten free option.
Ingredients
For lasagna:
- Pasta sauce: 1 Recipe Vegan bolognese Sauce *
- Tofu Ricotta: 1 recipe Tofu Ricotta
- 1 tbsp oil, olive oil or your favourite oil (optional)
- 2 cups or so chopped fresh spinach
- 2 small zucchini, cut lengthwise into strips
- 2 large tomatoes cut into semi thin slices
- 1 box regular lasagna noodles, I used 15 noodles*
- Vegan cheese - you could use Earth Island Mozzarella or Provolone, 6-8 slices. It's also called Follow Your Heart, or try my Vegan Mozzarella it's amazing.
- Salt & Pepper
Instructions
- Make Vegan Bolognese Sauce HERE Set aside (I usually make my sauce a day or two ahead or have some handy in the freezer.
- Follow instructions for Tofu Ricotta Cheese HERE
- Grill zucchini: Slice zucchini lengthwise into 1/4 inch strips, add to bowl with the oil and toss to combine. Grill on Bbq or grill pan set to med-high heat. Couple of minutes or more on each side until tender, with a slight bite. Set aside (If avoiding oil cook in pan with broth or water).
- Cook noodles according to instructions. Drain and add back to pot with cold water until needed.
- To assemble the lasagna: Preheat oven to 350° Spread 1 and 1/2 cups of sauce evenly in lasagna pan
- Add layer of noodles, over lapping a bit.
- Now add 1 and 1/2 cups or so of sauce, top with sliced zucchini, then tomato slices.
- Then add another layer of overlapping noodles, going the opposite direction this time. you will have to cut noodles to fit.
- Now add the tofu cashew ricotta, and spread evenly over the noodles.
- Top with chopped spinach, and another 1 and 1/2 cups or so of sauce
- Add your final layer of overlapping noodles , going in opposite direction again.
- Now add your final 1 and 1/2 cups or so of sauce.
- Cover with foil and bake for 45 minutes. Remove from oven, uncover and add your cheese slices and a couple twists of the salt and pepper mill. Return to the oven uncovered for another 10 minutes so cheese melts.
- Let sit for at least 1o minutes to cool slightly. Slice and Enjoy with a green salad or Vegan Caesar Salad and No Knead artisan Bread or garlic bread! For detailed step by step photos see above post.
Notes
- For gluten free: use gluten free lasagna noodles
- Feel free to add extra cheese to one of the layers
- My bolognese sauce recipe makes a lot so you can be generous between layers, or freeze the extra sauce. I actually would've liked more sauce for my lasagna, and pictures but we had spaghetti a few days before so I had just enough sauce left over for lasagna!
- If using no boil noodles skip step 4
- Now if you want to speed up the lasagna process a bit you could definitely use an easy store bought chunky marina sauce, saute some onions, mushrooms and vegan meat crumbles (like Gardein or Beyond Meat) in olive oil and add it in to the red sauce.
- Vegan lasagna will last in the fridge for 4-5 days and freezes well. To reheat from frozen: defrost in the fridge overnight and reheat in the microwave or covered in a 350° oven for 30 minutes or so until heated through.
- Prep time doesn't include making the Vegan Bolognese
- Category: Mains, Gluten free
- Method: Bake / Oven
- Cuisine: Italian, Vegan
Keywords: best vegan lasagna, vegan lasagna, vegetable lasagna,
I love all the vegetables you add to your vegan lasagna! Can’t wait to try this recipe! Sounds easy enough and I’ve never made tofu ricotta before. Should be fun. I’ll give it a go next week and report back on my success. Love your site!
Oh wonderful Mary! Enjoy the lasagna! Yes I'd love to hear your feedback. Thank you!
Made this yesterday, it is very tasty
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Glad you enjoyed the lasagna Midge. Thanks so much for commenting!
my family loves your vegan lasagna Verna!! last time I made It I used eggplant instead of zucchini and lentils for the soy curls in the bolognese sauce! It was a great switch up and so good!
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oh I love that idea! sounds great Judy. happy to hear your family enjoyed the lasagna. thank you!
So amazingly delicious...didn’t miss the meat at all!!
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thank you so much Caren!! glad you loved it❤️
Yum! I'll be trying this one out for sure.
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OH nice!! You'll love it? Thank you so much for your comment! Happy day to you