Hey everybody.
Welcome to Hilah Cooking.
I'm Hilah.
Today, I'm going to show you how to make super-shortcut-easy vegetarian
lasagna.
I have this new lasagna pan.
Look at it, it's shiny.
It's never been used, that my friend Joe sent me from Germany.
Thanks, Joe.
I came up with this recipe when I was in high school, when I was a 'vegetarian'.
I was a vegetarian for 7 years, but I put it in quotes because
I'm an idiot.
Anyway, it's really easy.
I'm not going to boil the noodles first; super-shortcut, awesome, fast, bad-ass lasagna coming at you.
The things that we need for to make this lasagna are a cheese mixture,
which is some grated mozzarella, some grated parmesan, some ricotta cheese,
and some chopped zucchini which would be in a layer.
This is marinara sauce.
Super-basic, no meat; it's just tomatoes, garlic, oil, and spices.
I'll put the recipe for that on the website.
Super-simple, you don't really need me to demonstrate it; otherwise, you
can just buy a jar 28-ounce jar of sauce.
Some noodles, just regular noodles.
You don't have to buy the ones that are expensive that say no-boil,
because basically you add enough water to the sauce, they're all no-boil-necessary.
I'm going to start with the cheese mixture.
Just mixing some stuff together, and I'm going to add an egg to the
cheese mixture, too.
Plop this in there.
You do want to make sure you get some full-fat cheese going on in
here.
You can totally use low-fat or even fat-free ricotta.
I've done it, but it is a little more special if you can
afford it; the calories, not the price because they cost the same.
About half this; we'll save that for topping, and then my egg, and some oregano.
I'm just going to pull the leaves off.
If you don't have this, you can use some parsley, some fresh
basil, some dried oregano, or whatevs, or just leave it out; it won't hurt
my feelings.
Then we just mix this together real good.
The egg is just there; it acts as a binder so that your lasagna stays
together when you cut it.
If you are a vegetarian that doesn't do eggs, you
could probably just sprinkle in a teaspoon of flour in with this, and that
would help to bind it all together.
Handy tip from me to you.
That's all mixed up.
Now I'm going to have some whiskey.
Cheers, everybody.
I've got my approximately 28 ounces of sauce; I'm going
to add about another 1-1/3 cup of just water to that sauce.
Now I'm going to start layering this business together.
It's going to be so awesome.
It's going to blow your mind.
I'm just going to pour a little bit of my extra-watery sauce in the bottom
and then . . . look; my oven's all heated up.
Oh snap.
Then, let's see.
[inaudible: 03:30] lasagna sheets, and these will expand and fill it up.
I know I'm probably going to get a lot of shit
from people that are like, "You have to boil the lasagna noodles because
it tastes awful."
It doesn't.
It's not very authentic I guess.
To me, we're running out of fucking fresh water, dude, so if I can save a bunch of water
by not boiling a huge pot of noodles and do this shortcut, then I'm actually
helping the planet.
I should probably get an award.
Then spread this around.
There's not really a neat and tidy way to do this, but we'll just
see what we can do.
I also think I'm going to shove a little one in there
too, just to fill it up a little bit more.
A little bit of sauce, a little bit of cheese, and some of
my zucchini.
Now I'm just going to cover it with foil and stick it in the
oven.
Then in about 1 hour, we're going to have some wicked awesome
vegetarian lasagna.
It's been actually about 50 minutes.
I'm going to take the foil off and then put it back in.
You can see the noodles are totally absorbing all the
liquid.
Another 15 minutes just to get the top browned up, some of that
liquid cooked off, and then we'll have lasagna, bitches.
Look at that lovely, delicious vegetarian lasagna.
Holy crap that looks good.
Holy cow.
Wait, we should probably let it rest before I cut right into it, so cut.
This has been resting for 10 or 15 minutes; I forget.
I'm drunk.
We can just use this to cut into it.
It's cool; I don't know if you noticed, when they went in, they were only this big, but
now they've expanded to this big, so awesome; totally worked.
Probably need to cut it more.
It probably could've rested a little bit longer but I
am impatient.
If you've ever watched the show, I'm totally impatient.
Let's taste this mother.
Dude, that's delicious.
That is a delicious lasagna that you can make on a cold
and rainy day, and warm the hearts of your loved ones.
Much like Joe warmed my heart when he sent me this pan as a Christmas
present.
Super-easy awesome vegetarian lasagna; try it out for yourself.
Go to the website and I'll post the recipe: HilahCooking.com.
You can leave some comments and you can even send me a picture
if you make it.
That'd be awesome.
Thanks everybody.
Thanks for watching.
Thanks especially to Joe for the awesome lasagna pan.
Peace.