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Vegetable lasagna cake

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Ingredients
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Techniques
  • pasta dough sheets
  • mozzarella di bufala
Cut homemade pasta dough sheets into discs, reroll the scraps, repeat, and freeze the discs.
Pasta dough discs
Make a roux: mix flour into melted butter and cook about two minutes, whisking every so often.
  • flour
  • melted butter
  • hot milk
Pour hot milk into the roux, bring to a boil and cook two minutes, whisking constantly, until thickened.
  • salt
  • pepper
  • nutmeg
  • cheese, such as canter cheese, gruyere
Season the bechamel with salt, pepper and nutmeg, optionally creme fraiche, and stir in cheese to make a Mornay sauce.
  • spinach
In a very hot large pot, wilt the washed spinach with a couple of crushed garlic cloves and a drizzle of olive oil, under two minutes.
Wilting and creaming the spinach
  • 2 cloves crushed garlic cloves
  • olive oil
Transfer the wilted spinach to a sautoir and season with some of the bechamel, salt and pepper.
Cut the zucchini into thin slices, blanch two minutes and drain on paper towels.
  • zucchini
  • tomato sauce
Assemble: a bed of tomato sauce, a frozen pasta disc, half the creamy spinach, pasta, tomato sauce, basil, zucchini, bechamel, pasta, creamy spinach, pasta, tomato sauce, parmigiano reggiano, zucchini, pasta, bechamel, parmigiano reggiano.
  • basil
  • parmigiano reggiano
Bake for an hour, let cool and refrigerate overnight.