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Lighter Lasagna Soup -- back to top
I came across this recipe for lasagna soup from Paula Deen's son and simply had to make it. Lasagna is the ultimate comfort food in my book, and this sounded like a pretty healthy rendition. It was in fact delicious (though a bit anise-y for my preferences), and I imagine it will go into our regular rotation. I followed the recipe pretty closely, except I like to sneak in extra veggies when I can. So when I remembered we had a block of frozen spinach, I decided to defrost it and throw it in. Also, we topped it with grated Toscano instead of Kraft fake parm, and we substituted whole wheat penne for lasagna noodles.
Lighter Lasagna Soup (from The Deen Brothers)
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2016-05-18 Update: Recipe moved to its own page
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Light Lasagna Soup and Roasted Squash -- back to top
We wanted something relatively easy so we made the Lighter Lasagna Soup. We made a few changes to the recipe to match what we had and out mood. They were
Overall, we were really happy with it. It is relatively healthy and pretty easy. The only thing is we kind of bulked this up a bunch but didn’t adjust the liquids so it was very thick (but I liked it that way still).
As using the vodka sauce was pretty good. We would use that again
I also roasted half a kabocha squash (30 min at 400°F, flipped half way) as a side for me. Meredith didn't want any but it is one of my favorites and I was more hungry.
2016-05-18 Update: Recipe moved to its own page
Vodka sauce is Meredith's favorite kind but tends to be rather unhealthy. However, we found the one pictured below at only 50 cal a serving (10 fewer than the lightest of the regular ones)
We made our now-regular lasagna soup. We again used the low-cal vodka sauce from Delallo first used 2015-10-09.
We also tried to make it even lighter by using
The potatoes worked really well. It saved us a good amount of points, required less processed food, and was just all-together good.
I still wish that we had a good way to make the sauce ourselves. This vodka sauce is really good and low points. I wonder if we could recreate it acceptably?
We also just had roasted eggplant.
2016-05-18 Update: Recipe moved to its own page
Lasagna Soup and Jackfruit Stuff -- back to top
We made Lighter Lasagna Soup again with Vodka sauce noted on 2015-10-09. We added an extra pepper and skipped all forms of a starch. We also only used 1/2 lbs of chicken sausage.
The soup came out pretty good as usual. Maybe a bit thin this time. But still good. And so easy! We also finished up the mozzarella was bought for Valentines' Day.
In addition, we tried out this new "meat" dish made with jackfruit and pictured below. We just heated it and served it taco style. I could kind of see the utility of Jackfruit-as-a-meat but the sauce was really pretty awful. I guess I would try their other flavors but with extreme trepidation
2016-05-18 Update: Recipe moved to its own page
We made our regular Lasagna Soup (which I finally made into its own recipe page). There wasn't much to it. We followed the general recipe. The only thing we did was to also throw in some tortellini Meredith had left over from when I was out of town.
It was great as usual. So easy and really good!