Friday/Weekend Meal: Gluten-free Plantains with red lentils and mixed Veggies Lasagna 🌱🍄🥧😋❤️

Hello everyone, hope you have a good Friday and a wonderful weekend ahead! 🤗

For today and weekend meals, I baked lasagna made out of sliced plantains with veggies fillings, top with crushed walnuts and cheese sauce. 😋

There are 3 steps for this dish:

1. Fillings: sautéed 1/2 cup of red lentils (boiled separately first to tender texture), onions, garlic, ginger, bell peppers, mushrooms, diced baby tomatoes, crushed walnuts and tomato paste. Spice used: ground cumin, chili powder, oregano, apple cider vinegar, salt and pepper to taste.

2. Plantain: I used 4 ripe plantains, thin sliced and coated with maple syrup and sprayed avocado oil in air dry oven first. ( I love these so much can eat by themselves. 😁)

3. Cheese sauce: homemade cashew milk, miso paste, apple cider vinegar, nutritional yeast, dehydrated onion, garlic powder, a bit of salt and starch for thick paste.

Layer prepared plantain slices in place of lasagna sheets, add fillings to 3 layers I made. Baked at 375F for 30 mins and ready to serve! This is perfectly reserved in refrigerator for 3 days.😋👍

As always, be inspired, be joyful, take a picture and Enjoy it! 😋❤️

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Love these plantains, great addition for any dish and deserts too. 😁👍

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[Kitten-whiskers Administrator]

Oh wow! that sounds and looks so beautiful - I am on my way over LOL

that looks wonderful Koko 😊

[Hidden in reply to Kitten-whiskers]

Awe thank you Debs very much! 🤗🙏

It’s so delicious with this combination I’m glad I did it. 😋👍 I’m going to heat it up waiting for you any minute now. 😁

P.S: These sliced plantains will go so well with some vegan vanilla bean ice cream. 🤔😁👍

[Kitten-whiskers Administrator in reply to Hidden]

Oh yummy! You have dessert sorted as well 😁

[Hidden in reply to Kitten-whiskers]

Yes Debs, we know dessert is always the highlight of the day! 😁👍

[HungryHufflepuff]

That’s a great idea for lasagne, thank you for sharing 😊

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Thank you HungryHufflepuff, you’re so kind! 🤗🙏

The first time I tried plantain in a Peruvian restaurant and I fell in love with it. They cooked in black bean sauce and rice in a banana leaf. I think I’ll make it some time soon. 😁 I’m so glad I made this combination, so savory. 😋👍

Love to share my beginning journey of vegan food with VFL. 😁

Hope you find time to cook and enjoy your wonderful meals this weekend! 😊

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Hi Happyman4, Yes it’s so good trying out this way using plantain as lasagna sheets. I would think plantains are popular over there. 🤔 They sell all year round here.

You are absolutely right they are delicious when frying like chips but I altered the cooking way to not use too much oil, still good though. 😂

I’m surprised you couldn’t get more fruits because Thailand has perfect weather for it. I hope you can grow these again soon because they are so yummy.

Lasagna sheets are good too, I just like to try non traditional way. Ohhhh how about zucchini sheets? 😁👍

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Now you just reminded me that I think it’s called wax banana also in VN. It’s much smaller, the skin is thick and you can boil it too, there’s honey inside the banana. 🤔Hmmm I didn’t know London is so popular with imported fruits which is great. Thai bananas: are we talking about the baby banana? So sweet and very vibrant yellow color almost like turmeric color? I love those can eat 3 of them. 😂 Gosh if we speak about fruits, nothing can compete with Thailand, I just don’t know how they can have many many fruits so sweet and yummy, Thai tamarind is my fav too. When I was in VN, we had to go to supermarket (not regular open air market) to buy imported Thai fruits and they did charge much more ofcourse. When I traveled back to VN like 5 yrs ago, I ate nothing but fruits such as mangosteen, custard apple, star fruits, durian, jackfruits, bon bon, rambutan, lychee, longan…. Oh my so yummy to think about them. 😋👍

Thank you for showing me new plantain shoots, looks like you got at least like 6 of new shoots coming out. They do look a bit small but healthy looking. I had no idea they could grow so big with a lot of leaves can be quite taking up too much space and not so many fruits. That would be frustrating for sure.

It’s the weekend over there, are you going to cook or dine out with the family? 😁

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That’s fascinating to learn how much Thailand thrives on imported fruits and so as jasmine rice. 😁👍

Sounds like a great project of installing water system. 👍

It’s movies time over here. Enjoy your cooking and I’ll be looking out for your food creation post if you decide to share with us!😋

[ZazenRiver345]

Your lasagna looks amazing and delicious 😋. Really love all the ingredients you used for it. Thanks for sharing and have a good day🤗🙏.

[Hidden in reply to ZazenRiver345]

Thank you Zazen very much! 🤗🙏

It’s so yummy and satisfied after each bite into the plantain. Hope you can find some over there and can cook up some time. 😋👍

Enjoy your weekend with family! 😊

[Kainan Guest]

wow thats so creative! And looks amazing!

[Hidden in reply to Kainan]

Thank you Kainan very much! 🤗🙏Maybe you can find some there too and bake a wholesome meal for this weekend. 😋👍

Enjoy and relax this long weekend! 😁👍

[Kainan Guest in reply to Hidden]

I’ve never cooked plantains before; might be an interesting experiment.

[Hidden in reply to Kainan]

I’m sure you will like it very much, it has a firm texture and mildly sweet and tangy, very tasty 😋👍 Dont eat like a banana though 😂

[Kainan Guest in reply to Hidden]

Yes I had it once at a Mexican restaurant I remember it was really good

[Hidden in reply to Kainan]

Oh ya they cook with beans stew too very delicious with rice. 😋👍 Hope you managed your dinner already. 😁

[Kainan Guest in reply to Hidden]

Thanks i had a good dinner. I hope you will too 👌

[Hidden in reply to Kainan]

Great! Thanx. I just need to heat up some lasagna and a nice cup of tea. 😋👍