Quorn Lasagne Bites

Jacqueline Meldrum is a food writer and recipe developer who specialises in making easy family vegetarian and vegan meals - which can be seen on her blog Tinned Tomatoes. Here she cooks some quick veggie lasagne bites made with Quorn Mince, mushrooms, ready made cheese sauce, tomato sauce and grated mozzarella.

Serves 4

35 mins

A Little Effort

Ingredients

  • 100g Quorn Mince
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • ½ onion, finely chopped
  • 1 small clove garlic, crushed
  • 4 large chestnut mushrooms, finely chopped
  • ½ vegetable stock cube
  • 150g rich jarred tomato sauce
  • 4 fresh lasagne sheets
  • a good grinding of salt and pepper
  • 4 tbsp fresh cheese sauce
  • 4 tbsp grated mozzarella

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 200c/180c fan/400f/gas mark 6
  2. Saute the onion and garlic in the olive oil until soft, then add the mushrooms and cook gently until they too are soft, then add the Quorn mince and mix well
  3. Sprinkle half a stock cube over the mince mixture for extra flavour and mixed in, then pour in the tomato sauce. Season with salt and pepper and cook for a couple of minutes
  4. Grease or spray a muffin tray and place a long strip of greaseproof paper in each bowl to help remove the lasagne
  5. Pick a glass approximately the size of the muffin bowls, draw around it with a knife and cut out 16 circles
  6. Place a circle of lasagne in eight of the muffin bowls, then top with a heaped teaspoon of mince, then another layer of lasagne. Next a heaped teaspoon of cheese sauce, then a sprinkling of mozzarella
  7. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes until golden. Serve two stacked for height with a dressed salad as a starter
  8. Enjoy!

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