Brooklyn1 wrote:
> "Paul M. Cook" > wrote:
>> "Judy Haffner" > wrote:
>>> My daughter told me a friend had told her about making lasagna using
>>> layers of sliced zucchini in place of lasagna noodles, and that's a new
>>> one to me, but she said it was delicious? I have no idea if it had meat
>>> in it, or not, or what the sauce ingredients were, but it's suppose to
>>> be a healthier dish, and I'm intrigued by the idea.
>>>
>>> If anyone here is familiar with such a dish, I hope they will post a
>>> recipe for it, if they were pleased with the results.
>> It's good. Just use any lasagna recipe and use sliced zukes instead of
>> pasta. I slive the zukes lengthwise using a mandolin..
>
> Without the pasta it really doesn't qualify as lasagna. However a
> zuke caserole can be a good dish too. Why can't one make a zuke
> lasagna using pasta, veggie lasagnas are quiet popular, I make them
> often with my garden veggies... mostly I use tortillas in lieu of
> pasta (corn or wheat), lasagna noodles are a pain to cook and cost
> more than other pastas... with tortillas I can build a lasagna in much
> less time and with much less effort. If one wants to layer zukes I'd
> suggest grilling them first or your dish will turn out like a soup...
> slice large zukes lengthwise into 1/2" slabs, brush lightly with oil,
> dust with seasoning, and slap on a hot grill... they'll be tastier and
> a lot of the water will have disappated. I grill zukes all the time,
> I grill eggplant too, I grill all kinds of veggies.


I don't boil my dried lasagna noodles, I soak them in another lasagna
pan of hot water, then use them like fresh noodles. It's a lot easier
than boiling. But I'm intrigued by your idea of using tortillas -- I
thought flour tortillas would get too soft, and corn wouldn't taste right.

The last lasagna-like hotdish that I made: I cooked bowtie noodles and
mixed with cottage cheese, sour cream, black pepper, and a little
chopped onion. Spread that in the bottom of the pan. Then put a layer
of meat sauce (heavy on the meat) on top, and sprinkled mozzarella on
top of that. Baked it about 25 minutes.

Bob