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Method
  1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. 
  2. Place pumpkin in roasting tray, and cook until tender. Once cooked, roughly mash and set aside.
  3. Put spinach (or silverbeet) in a heatproof bowl and pour over enough boiling water to cover. Leave for 5 minutes, then drain and squeeze out most of the water.
  4. In another bowl mix together cottage cheese, egg and milk. Set aside.
  5. Spray a little oil into a large oven-proof dish.
  6. To assemble lasagna, cover the base of the dish with 1 layer of pasta.
  7. Spread ⅓ of the can of tomatoes evenly on top, along with ½ of the pumpkin, ½ the spinach and ⅓ of the cottage cheese mixture.
  8. Cover with another layer of lasagna, ½ of the remaining canned tomatoes, all of the remaining pumpkin and spinach, and ½ of the remaining cottage cheese mixture.
  9. Top with last of the pasta, then the remaining canned tomatoes and cottage cheese mixture. Sprinkle with grated cheese.
  10. Bake for 30 minutes until golden. Stand for 5 minutes before serving with a salad.
Notes

You can add any vegetables you have on hand to this lasagne, such as sliced zucchini, kumāra, leftover vegetables from the night before or frozen mixed vegetables.

 

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