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Friday, May 11, 2012

Health One's Lasagna Recipe made with Health One Meal Replacement

If you have visited Health One's Facebook page lately, you have seen their cover photo of some amazing lasagna. Yes, that's right!  Lasagna! This recipe and many more are posted under the notes on Health One's Facebook page. Health One  also has a library of great videos on YouTube, which includes the instructional video for lasagna. Definitely a "don't miss" when it comes to visual, hands-on directions.

Well, a few weeks ago, I had some friends over for a luncheon.  My goal was to find a recipe that would not stand out from the main course. After some searching, I decided to try Lasagna made with Health One's Creamy Potato Soup Meal Replacement.  This recipe does take some advanced preparation; but, is definitely worth the effort!

The recipe uses two meal replacements for the lasagna noodles; however, I found that a quarter of the recipe was plenty for one serving.  The second quarter of the recipe was the taste-test for my guests - which received a unanimous thumbs-up!  A side of Caesar Salad made with a cup of romaine lettuce and 1 tablespoon of Cardini's fat-free Caesar Dressing added an additional 24 calories.  The remaining two servings were individually packaged.  One for dinner the next day and one was popped into the freezer for dinner the following week.


Lasagna – 4 servings
Meal Replacement - 80 calories per serving
Additives - 58.5 calories per serving

Pasta Noodles Ingredients

2 potato soup meal replacements
¼ cup egg beaters

Pasta Instructions:  


  • Pour the meal replacements into a bowl
  • Slowly mix in the egg beaters till it forms stiff dough (you may not need to use all of the egg beaters).  
  • Roll out thin on a floured board and cut into 1 inch strips.  (don’t worry about using the flour, the majority of it falls off after the noodles dry)  
  • Spread out on a cooling rack to dry.  (I dried the noodles overnight so that they were like regular dried pasta)


Lasagna Ingredients


  • 1 can of Hunts tomatoes with basil, garlic and oregano
  • 1 cup fat-free cottage cheese
  • 2 tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese
  • ¼ cup grated mozzarella cheese
  • 1 teaspoon dried basil
  • 1 cup baby spinach
  • 3-4 sliced mushrooms
  • Pasta noodles

Lasagna Instructions: 


  • Cook pasta noodles in boiling water till flexible – do not overcook.  I cooked mine in a skillet and just put in a few at a time so that they didn’t stick together.
  • Mix 1 tablespoon of parmesan cheese and the dried basil into the cottage cheese. 
  • Spray a shallow two quart casserole dish with Pam spray.  
  • Spread some juice from the tomatoes on the bottom of the dish. 
  • Place a layer of cooked noodles on top of the juice. 
  • Spread tomatoes, ½ of mushrooms, ½ of spinach, ½ of cottage cheese and 1/3 of mozzarella cheese on top of noodles.
  • Repeat above.
  • Place cooked noodles on top.
  • Spread a layer of tomatoes, then remaining mozzarella and parmesan on top.
  • Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes.
Just a note on serving - the bottom of the casserole dish will be rather watery.  Because of this, you will want to dish up all of the servings so that the lasagna doesn't become soggy.

Enjoy!


2 comments:

  1. Nice! When we tried Sheila's Health One lasagna in Indy a coupla years ago, I thought- we have now acheived soul food status. I swoon for Italian. We tried noodles at home and made some first timer mistakes. We tried to use a pastry cloth to roll the noodles out and it was a bear to get clean in the wash afterwards. Think I'll try the floured board next time..

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  2. I can only imagine with the pastry cloth. This lasagne really was wonderful! Since you enjoy Italian - watch for a pesto pasta dish I'm working on - should be posted this week or early next.

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