Gluten Free Lasagna using Gluten Free Bread
Making the Momos Chutney/Sauce
Ingredients
- Wheafree Gluten Free Sandwich Bread
- 250g Grated Cheese
For Red Sauce:
- 1 ½ cups Water
- 6 Ripe Tomatoes
- 2-3 Dried Red Chilli
- 3-4 Cloves of Garlic
- ½ tsp Salt (according to taste)
- ½ tsp Sugar/ Jaggery
- ½ tsp Cumin Seeds
For White Sauce:
- 2 tbsp Butter
- 2 tbsp (Levelled) Wheafree Maida Replacer
- 2 cups Milk (more if required)
- 2 tbsp Grated Cheese
- ½ tsp Crushed/Powdered Pepper
- ½ tsp Chilli Flakes
- ½ tsp Oregano
- ½ tsp Parsley
- ½ tsp Salt
- ½ tsp White Pepper
- ½ tsp Black Pepper
- ½ tsp of gluten free Pasta Seasoning (optional)
For The Veggie Preparation:
- 2 tbsp Oil
- 2-3 Cloves of Garlic, finely chopped
- ½ Onion, finely chopped
- ½ Carrot, finely chopped
- ½ Capsicum, finely chopped
- ½ Red/Yellow bell pepper, finely chopped
- 3 tbsp Sweet Corn (optional)
- ½ tsp Oregano
- ½ tsp Parsley
- 1tsp Chilli Flakes
- ½ tsp Salt
Method
To Prepare The Red Sauce:
- Boil 1-1 ½ cup of water in a large pan on high flame.
- Using a knife slit a shallow X on the bottom of each tomato and put them in the water for blanching. Add dried red chillies in the pan.
- Boil for 10 minutes or when the skins of tomatoes start to peel off.
- Drain off the water and run tomatoes through cold water. Once the tomatoes are cooled, peel the skin off.
- Put them in the blender along with the boiled red chillies and some garlic and cumin seeds. Blend them all together into a smooth paste.
- Heat the blended puree in a pan on medium-high flame. Add salt and pepper.
- Cook for about 5-7 minutes, let the sauce reduce and thicken till the desired consistency is obtained. Keep stirring at intervals.
- Pour it in a bowl and keep it aside.
To Prepare White Sauce:
- Heat up the butter in a pan on medium flame.
- Add Wheafree Maida Replacer and sauté on low flame for a minute, the maida will become aromatic and will change its colour.
- Add 1 cup milk and mix well till the sauce thickens. Make sure the sauce is smooth and there are no lumps (if required use a whisk).
- Add 1 more cup of milk and stir continuously until the sauce thickens furthermore.
- Cook until the sauce turns smooth and creamy.
- Now add salt, white pepper, black pepper, chilli flakes, oregano and parsley. Mix the spices well.
- Add cheese, stir and let it melt in the sauce.
- Pour it in a bowl and keep it aside.
For Sautéing Vegetables:
- Heat the oil in a frying pan and sauté garlic in it. Then add onions and sauté for a minute.
- Add carrots, stir fry it for a minute. Then add capsicum, bell peppers and sweet corn. Sauté for a minute keeping the veggies still crunchy.
- Further add oregano, parsley, chilli flakes and salt (according to your taste).
- Mix it well and keep it aside.
Preparing the Bread Sheets:
- Take Wheafree Sandwich Bread.
- Apply wet hands on both sides of the bread then with the help of a roller, roll out the bread pieces and flatten them out into sheets.
- Trim off the edges.
- Cut the bread sheet into 2 halves. Keep aside.
Layering the Lasagna:
- Preheat the OTG at 140 ͦC.
- In a baking tray, add about 3 tbsp of red sauce and 2 tbsp of white sauce, spread it over the bottom of the tray, use more sauces if required to cover the whole dish with sauces.
- Arrange one layer of rolled out bread sheets lengthwise over the sauce (3-4 breads depending on your pan size, edges may overlap.)
- Cover the bread with another layer of red sauce and white sauce and spread evenly.
- Add a layer of veggies all over the sauces. And cover it with grated cheese.
- Put another layer of bread sheets and lightly press on it so that the layer settles down.
- Apply a third layer of sauces, top it with the remaining veggies.
- Cover it with a layer of grated cheese.
- Garnish with some veggies and add a little of Red and White sauce.
- You can also garnish it with some oregano and parsley.
- Bake in the OTG at 140 ͦC for 10 minutes. Then further bake the lasagna at 120 ͦC for another 10 minutes.
- Once done, take it out, cut the lasagna into squares. Serve it hot.
- Recipe By: Wheafree Kitchen