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Lasagna Mexicano (Jacquie) |  Vegetable/Fruit Day

Ingredients
  • 5 Romano tomatoes
  • 3 jalapenos (cut the caps off)
  • 3 cloves of garlic - chopped
  • 2 tsp. basil
  • 2 tsp. cumin
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 3 ripe plantains
  • ½ eggplant cut into strips about 1.4 inch wide
  • 1 sautéed onion
  • avocado slice
  • salsa
Directions
  • in a large pot ½ full of water boil Romano tomatoes and jalapenos until the tomato skin starts to crack (do NOT throw away water)
  • take the tomatoes out of water and skin them
  • place tomatoes and peppers in blender along with the chopped garlic & blend until smooth
  • preheat oven to 400 degrees
  • put tomato mixture in smaller pot, add basil, cumin, salt and simmer on back burner of your stovetop
  • peel and cut the plantains into 1-inch pieces and boil in the tomato water until very tender
  • once they are cooked, use a fork to mash them
  • if they are too dry add some of the tomato water
  • flatten out the plantains on a baking pan. Try to flatten to the edges of the pan in order to have a square plantain cake
  • bake in the oven on 400 degrees for 25 min
  • sauté onion in a spray of olive oil--again if this gets too dry add some of the tomato water
  • when the plantains are finished baking, cut into pieces about the shape of a bread pan
  • you should have three or four pieces
  • pour a small amount of tomato sauce in the bread pan, then a layer of plantain, sauce, then a layer of eggplant, sauce, layer of plantain, sauce, Layer of onion, sauce, layer of plantain, sauce
  • lower oven temperature to 325 degrees and bake for 30 min

Jacquie said she didn't eat it until two days later and it was awesome!

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