Friday, May 6, 2011

Mexican Lasagna

As mentioned in post "All men are not created equal...."


Ingredients
  • 1 1/2 pounds ground turkey
  • 2 garlic cloves minced
  • 1 cup white mushrooms sliced
  • 1 red pepper diced
  • 1 bunch green onions, chopped
  • 2 tsp chili powder
  • 1 tsp cumin
  • 1 tsp paprika
  • 1 jalapeno pepper diced
  • 1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes, undrained
  •  2 cups  ricotta cheese
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp chili powder
  • 1/2 tsp cumin
  • 4 cups spinach
  • 18 (6 inch) corn tortillas
  • 90g partly skimmed mozzarella cheese 
  • 1/2 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes, undrained

Directions
  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190.5 degrees C). Place ground turkey in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Stir in garlic, vegetables,spices, diced tomatoes with juice, and jalapeno. Reduce heat to medium.
  2. In a medium bowl, mix together ricotta and eggs. Spice this mix up- add the additional chili powder (1 tsp) cumin (1/2 tsp).  
  3. Heat tortillas is a small skillet (30 secs per side).  Cut 5 tortillas in half and leave 1 whole.  Place  tortillas in the bottom of a 9x13 inch pan -flat side should be against the side of the dish.  Place whole tortilla in the center of the pan-your dish should be covered by the tortillas. 
  4. Spread 1/2 of the ricotta mixture on tortillas. Layer spinach over ricotta mixture. Spoon 1/2 of the meat mixture over the spinach. Repeat layers again-end with a layer of tortillas. 
  5. Heat 1/2 can of diced tomato.  Spoon on top of lasagna and sprinkle mozzarella. 
  6. Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes, or until sauce is bubbly.  Remove and let sit for 10 mins.  Can be served with salsa, sour cream or a hot sauce
Serves 6-475 calories per serving

*Originally found the recipe on allrecipes.com -have made a few changes
**You can add more heat to the meat mixture by adding hot sauce (or jalapenos)
***I used corn tortillas that I bought at a little Mexican market-they were only 45 calories each!

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