I made this recipe today with a few alterations/substitutions: foodnetwork/recipes/jeff-mauro/sweet-potato-and-mushroom-lasagna.html Photos of my prep and result are in the comments section. For some reason FB wont let me add photos to this post. I dont shop at a fancy grocery store or keep ingredients on hand that Ill only use once so I substituted baby Bella mushrooms for the cremini mushrooms, onion for the shallot, part skim ricotta for the whole milk kind, and dried thyme for fresh. I also left off the fresh basil because half of the people I would be serving the lasagna to are children and I want them to eat it and not turn their noses up at the funny smelling green stuff on their plates. Im not going to type out the whole recipe again, I stuck closely to the recipe instructions otherwise, except I realize now that I added the red pepper into the cheese and mushroom mixture instead of sweating it with the processed mushrooms and spinach. I rather liked the level of heat that resulted since it had plenty of cooking time in the oven anyway. Ill share some other tips on preparation. I dont have a mandoline. I have enough gadgets in my kitchen, any more and I would need a larger kitchen! So I first tried using an old school grater to slice the potatoes, it worked but barely and with a lot of elbow grease. I gave the grater up and switched to the handy chefs knife which was much easier though it made slightly irregular and thicker slices due to my lackluster knife skills. I thought the thicker slices of potato gave the lasagna a more substantial mouth feel, sharper sweetness to balance out the savory spinach mushroom cheese layers. The one drawback I noticed is that the lasagna is a bit wet when you take it out of the oven. This could probably remedied by taking the foil off the lasagna for the last 10 minutes or so. I also added the Parmesan cheese on top as soon as I took it out of the oven to cool so it would be all melty. Yum! So yes, the recipe turned out very well. The preparation is a bit too labor intensive to make it a weekly meal option but it definitely is a nice alternative to pasta and tomato sauce based lasagna. My 10 yo said it was Amazing and ate his whole portion. My 7yo had one bite of it and only had garlic bread for dinner, but in general if carbs arent involved he wont eat it. I loved it and probably ate too much because I wasnt going to let my 7yos food go to waste!
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 01:09:16 +0000
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