Sweet Potato Lasagne

A delicious twist on the Italian dish using thin slices of sweet potato instead of pasta sheets

This is another non-Joseph recipe, but we enjoyed it so much, I'm sharing it with you. (I also had a few people ask me for the recipe when I posted it on Instagram, so I had already translated it from Dutch to English!) It's from a recipe card I picked up at the Lidl supermarket. If you know me well, you'll know I love the Lidl. You can find more of their recipes here - Lidl Nederland I enjoyed the fact that it has so much cheese in it. For a more traditional (vegetarian) lasagne, check out my other lasange recipe here: Lasagne

Ingreedients:

• 800g sweet potato, peeled and thinly sliced

• 10g thyme

• 2 tbsp olive oil

• 2 onions, sliced in rings

• 200g veggie mince

• 200g cream cheese with herbs

• 1 jar pesto

• 100g spinach

• 400g tomatoes

• 200g cottage cheese

• 100g grated 'oude kaas' (or cheddar)

• 1 ball of mozzarella, sliced

Method:

• Pre-heat the oven to 200°c

• Cook the sweet potato for 2 mins in salted, boiling water

• Heat the oil and fry the onion and thyme for 5 minutes

• Add the mince and cook for another 5 minutes

• Turn off the heat, add the cream cheese, pesto and spinach, season with salt & pepper and give a good stir

• Spoon a small amount of the mixture onto the bottom of the oven dish

• Lay ¼ of the sweet potato on top

• Lay ¼ of the tomatoes on top of the sweet potato

• Repeat the layers 3 times

• Top with the cottage cheese, followed by the mozzarella slices and grated cheese

• Bake for 45 minutes in the pre-heated oven

Enjoy! Joseph