5 Delicious Lasagna Recipes Perfect for Winter

Lasagna is the perfect dish for lunch or dinner during the cold season — it’s hearty, tasty and very satisfying. For preparation, you need quite a bit of time and ingredients.

Bright Side wants to share unique recipes for the most delicious lasagnas, which are not difficult to cook at home.

Potato Lasagna

You will need:

• 3 large potatoes
• 3-4 tablespoons of olive oil
• a pinch of salt
• a pinch of black pepper
• 1/3 cup lemon juice
• 12 oz (340 g) tofu
• basil leaves
• 1 tablespoon of dried oregano
• Parmesan cheese

For the sauce (if you’d like to make your own):

• 1/2 cup olive oil
• chopped basil
• 2 cloves garlic
• a pinch of salt
• a pinch of black pepper
• water
• 0.7 oz (20 g) Parmesan cheese.

How to make it:

1. Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C).
2. To make ricotta, mix the tofu, olive oil, salt, pepper, lemon juice, basil and oregano in a blender. You should get a smooth consistency with pieces of basil.
3. Peel the potatoes and cut them into thin circles.
4. Take a deep rectangular dish and lay out the potatoes in one layer.
5. Layer the potatoes and place the ricotta on top. Spread evenly.
6. Spread a second layer of potatoes, then add more ricotta. On top, add a third layer of potatoes and pour on the ricotta. Finally, finish with a top layer of potatoes.
7. Cover the dish with foil and bake for 50 minutes.
8. Then remove foil and bake for another 10 minutes.
9. While preparing the lasagna, mixed the ingredients for the sauce in a blender: olive oil, basil and two cloves of garlic. Then add the cheese, salt, pepper and mix them in the blender again. Add a little water.
10. Take the lasagna from the oven and let the dish cool a little.
11. Add the sauce.
12. Enjoy a delicious lasagna.

Cheese Lasagna

You will need:

• 1 pound (500 g) Farmer’s cheese
• 10.6 oz (300 g) hard cheese
• 2 eggs
• 1.4-1.8 oz (40-50 g) butter
• dry lasagna sheets
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt

How to make it:

1. Grate the cheese.
2.  In a glass, pour the water and add a spoonful of salt.
3. Add 2 eggs to the Farmer’s cheese and stir.
4. Add 5 tablespoons of salted water to the cottage cheese.
5. Add the softened butter.
6. Add a pinch of salt.
7. Take a baking dish and place in the bottom, a sheet of foil covering all sides. Grease the foil with oil.
8. Then add the sheets of lasagna as a base.
9. Spread 1/4 of cheese mixture on the lasagna sheets. Cover every layer (1/4 of mixture).
10. On top, in different places, sprinkle 3 tablespoons of salted water.
11. Continue layering the pasta sheets. On top, spread the Farmer’s cheese and add grated cheese. Also, adding the 3 tablespoons of salted water.
12. Add this to all 4 layers of lasagna so that the last layer has become cheese. Cover the dish in foil.
13. Bake in a well preheated oven for 30 minutes until cheese browns.
14. Serve lasagna hot.

Pita Lasagna with cheese and fish

You will need:

• thin pita bread
• 6.3 oz (180 g) salmon fillet
• 11.3 oz (320 g) Farmer’s cheese
• 2 eggs
• 10.6 oz (300 g) yogurt
• fresh dill
• spice

How to make it:

1. Mix together the egg and yogurt.
2. Cut sheets of pita bread and cover them with the previously made sauce and layer them. Let the pita bread soak for 10 minutes before baking.
3. Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve or grind in a blender. Add 1 egg for a thicker consistency.
4. Clean the fish from the bones and salt it. Leave in the refrigerator for 15 minutes, then wash off the salted fish and cut it into small cubes.
5. Mix Farmer’s cheese and fish. Add the fennel, stirring the ingredients with a spoon.
6. Spread over the pita. Cover the top layer with the egg and yogurt mixture.
7. Bake lasagna for 10 minutes.

Lasagna with chicken and mushrooms

You will need:

• 1 chicken breast
• vegetable oil (for frying)
• 1 pound (0.5 kilo) mushrooms (fresh or pickled)
• 6.8 oz (200 ml) cream
• hard cheese
• sheets of lasagna pasta

How to make it:

1. Remove breast bone, separate the meat, and fry it with oil.
2. Slice the mushrooms and add to the meat. Fry for 10 minutes.
3. Pour the cream in and let it simmer, covered for about 7 minutes.
4. Preheat the oven.
5. Choose a pan for lasagna and put a sheet of foil down. Grease with butter.
6. Layer pasta sheets for lasagna. Then spread the filling (chicken and mushroom).
   Sprinkle with grated cheese.
7. Make 4 layers, so that the last layer has become cheese.
8. Bake for 40 minutes.

Lasagna in a frying pan

You will need:

• 1 pounds (800 g) tomatoes in their own juice
• 1 tablespoon of olive oil
• 1 onion
• salt
• 3 cloves garlic
• red pepper flakes (on the tip of a knife)
• 1 pound (450 g) minced meat
• 10 lasagna sheets
• 1/2 pound (220 g) tomato sauce
• grated Parmesan cheese
• 2 tablespoons of basil
• 1/2 pound (220 g) cheese (ricotta).

How to make it:

1. Mince the onion and garlic. Finely cut the basil, and break the pasta sheets in halves.
2. Finely cut the tomatoes and put them in a bowl. Dilute with water.
3. Fry the onion until soft in a large frying pan. Add the garlic and red pepper.
4. Place meat in the pan. When it is cooked, add top halves of pasta sheets for lasagna, but
   do not stir.
5. Add and spread the chopped tomatoes and tomato sauce. Do not stir.
6. Cover with a lid and simmer for 20 minutes over low heat.
7. Turn off the heat and add the first half of the Parmesan and then the ricotta. Do not stir.
8. At the end of cooking, remove the lid, sprinkle the second half of the Parmesan and chopped basil and serve.