Did you know lasagna is an Italian wide, flat pasta and possibly one of the oldest? Well, I would be honest I didn’t know either. It was during an international conference that I came to know about this Mediterranean Lasagna.

I met several people there. While I was eating this dish, I didn’t know anything about it. Yet, it had an incredible taste. This prompted me to ask one of my Italian friends about it. He laughed first and then told me about it. I found it rather interesting.

When I was back home, I discussed this with my chef friend. He called me for dinner at his home and it was so kind of him to make this dish in front of me. He cooked it with perfection. Then, he taught me how to make Mediterranean Lasagna recipe during one of his visits at my place. Although I made mistakes after trying it for two more times, I became perfect with it.

Now, my guests are served with Mediterranean Lasagna as well. They are left to wonder in surprise, how do I make it so perfect.

So, my friends here is that secret: Mediterranean Lasagna Recipe for you. Surprise your family or guests with this delicious homemade dish.

Ingredients Required for Mediterranean Lasagna Recipe

Ingredients	Amount
Medium Zucchini	2
Small Egg Plant	1
Kosher Salt	2 teaspoons
Lasagna Noodles (12 noodles)	8 ounces
Extra-Virgin Olive Oil	3 tablespoons
Cremini mushroom, stemmed and roughly chopped	1pint
Fresh baby spinach	1 lb
Minced garlic	1 tablespoon
Zested lemon	1
Chopped parsley	1 tablespoon
Whole milk ricotta cheese	16 ounces
Chopped basil	2 teaspoons
Dried oregano	1/2 teaspoon
Crushed red pepper flakes	1/2
Tomato sauce	1 ( 25 ounce jar)
Shaved parmesan cheese	1 cup

How much time will it take ?

Preparation time	Cooking time	Total time
1 hour	1 hour	2 hours 10 minutes

Mediterranean Lasagna Recipe

Firstly preheat oven 375 F.
Take a mandolin for slicing the zucchini and eggplant into long strips ( 1/8 inch thick strip).
Now line a paper towel with two half sheet trays and then put the vegetable strips over it
Sprinkle salt the over vegetables.
Take another sheet of paper towel and top the vegetables with it.
Now keep continuing the process of layering of vegetables and paper towels in single layers until they get covered completely.
Leave the vegetables undisturbed for half an hour so that they lose their excessive moisture.
In the meantime take a pot. Put salted water into it and bring it to boil.
Take a sheet of the tray for laying the lasagna noodles onto it in even layers.
Now pour the boiled and salted water over the noodles to soak them for softening for about 20 minutes
Take a large saute pan and heat 2 tablespoons olive oil over medium-high.
Now add the mushrooms and let them cook until they get softened and excess of liquid oil gets evaporated.
Sprinkle salt and add garlic. Cook them until you get the fragrance.
Spinach is to be added now and cooked until it gets wilted. At this time add more salt for taste.
Let the mixture cool down by turning off the heat.
In another large bowl put lemon zest, spinach, ricotta, parsley, dried oregano, basil, red pepper flakes, salt and mushroom mixture in it and mix everything well.
Now spread 3/4 cup tomato sauce over it the bottom of a 9*13 inch baking dish.
Now put lasagna noodles over the sauce in the baking dish.
Now over that, put the ricotta mixture, followed by half of the eggplant slices
Now spread 1/3 of the ricotta mixture over the noodles.
Press down on the eggplant firmly to ensure the layers are even.
Now first spread an additional 3/4 cup of sauce of eggplant followed by zucchini.
For the keeping, the layers even once again pressed down on the zucchini.
Now take one-third of the ricotta over the zucchini, that will be followed by noodles and tomato sauce
The remaining eggplant is to be shingled over the sauce and press down again.
Over the top, remaining ricotta is to be spread with last 4 noodles and 3/4 tomato sauce.
Now lasagna’s is to be shingled with zucchini along with sprinkling it with shaved parmesan.
Bake the lasagna in the oven for 45 minutes.
Take it out from the oven and leave it undisturbed for 15 minutes.
Finally, cut it with precision and serve.

After following all the above mentioned steps of the Mediterranean Lasagna recipe, you can serve it to your guests for a wonderful dinner.

Nutritional information of Mediterranean Lasagna Recipe

Calories	361
Total fat	15 gm
saturated fats	7 gm
Total carbohydrates	40 gm
Sugar	12 gm
Protein	6 gm
Sodium	886 mg
Cholesterol	34 mg
Fibre	6 gm