Having seen squash slices for sale as alternatives to pasta lasagne leaves, i decided to use up my remaining squashes! I made a lovely lasagne with quorn mince (for my OH who needs to feel there is something meat like), then made a mushroom mousaka only using squash instead of aubergine as I am not a great fan. Both were really good and i can honestly say I prefer the squash to pasta. All going towards the 5 or 10 a day veggies
Thank you gwynleg, what a great substitution. For the diabetics combined dishes where carbohydrate foods like pasta sheets, are incorporated in a dish are always tricky. Unfortunately I love lasagna and do miss it. I can happily cobble together a lasagna-like dish with squash slices. Such a good suggestion. And it helps to 'up' the vegetable count as you say. :sunny:
Have been researching this a little more. I don't have a dehydrator, but it would be easy to make our own 'fake lasagna sheets' by drying squash and that would keep year-round. The other problem with lasagna is that diabetics who need to go low carbohydrate need to add much less flour than the usual recipe calls for. But I have discovered crushed chia seeds as a thickening agent and they are readily available (mine were from Lidl). Together with fromage frais and grated cheese, that will do nicely for the white sauce - I think. Need to go and experiment :icon_cheers:
Isn't squash a high carb veg?🤔 I have been following a low carb diet for some months now and I use sliced courgettes to replace the pasta. My OH misses the pasta too. I have also found recipes that use cabbage leaves to replace the lasagna sheets but I think it should be called cabbage bake and not a lasagna😂
Yes with 12 gr per hundred it is 'carby' but not as much as beans by a long way. These are the figures for butternut squash which is very sweet, others will be less so. You are right courgettes would be a lot less though. Just over 3 per hundred. :wave:
I love using spaghetti squash as the spaghetti in my spag bol