For an easy family dinner, you can’t go past this Thermomix Lasagna recipe! It’s packed with veggies, is freezer friendly and will be ready in under one hour.
Why you will love this Thermomix Lasagna Recipe:
- It is family friendly – layers of beef and vegetable covered in a delicious cheese sauce, what’s not to love!
- Packed with veggies – there are 4 different vegetables (onion, zucchini, carrot and sweet potato) in this Lasagna recipe and you can easily add more.
- Freezer friendly – this Lasagna will keep in the freezer for up to three months.
Lasagna Ingredients:
- You can use a mixture of beef and pork mince for this recipe if you prefer.
- Tomato Passata can also be used in place of the crushed tomatoes.
- The vegetables can be altered and you certainly can substitute with similar types of vegetable if you wish.
How to make Lasagna in a Thermomix:
Making Lasagna from scratch really is pretty simple, I promise!
- Firstly, you will need to grate the onion and garlic before adding the remaining vegetables and cooking.
- Then, add the remaining sauce ingredients and place the mince into the Thermomix basket to cook, this helps the meat to stay ‘chunky’.
- Blitz the mince to combine with the sauce and then move onto making the cheese sauce.
- Layer the pasta, meat sauce until you have used it all and have a layer of pasta on top. Cover with the cheese sauce and bake until the cheese sauce is bubbling and brown.
Tips for Making this Thermomix Lasagna Recipe:
- You can also use a mixture of beef and pork mince for this recipe.
- The vegetables can also be omitted or increased if your prefer, you can also substitute the sweet potato with an extra carrot if you wish.
- This Lasagna is freezer friendly and can be stored for up to three months.
- Either fresh or dry lasagna sheets can be used for this recipe.
- This recipe makes a nice big dish of Lasagna and you can bulk it up even further by adding extra veggies to the meat sauce mix.
- One of the best things about this recipe is that the meat sauce still remains chunky, which helps give a lot more texture to the recipe.
Is bolognese sauce meant to be thick?
Yes, you want your meat sauce to be thick, there should’t be too much extra liquid surrounding the meat and other ingredients.
How many layers is a Lasagna supposed to have?
There is no exact amount of layers, our preference is three.
If you don’t have a Thermomix, don’t worry! You can find the conventional instructions for this recipe here.
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Thermomix Lasagna Recipe
My easy Thermomix Lasagna recipe has a yummy chunky vegetable and beef sauce which makes it a great way to sneak some extra veggies into the kids. It's also freezer friendly.
Equipment
- Thermomix
- Thermomix Basket insert
- 22cm square oven safe baking dish
Ingredients
- 2 cloves garlic
- 150 grams brown onion cut in half
- 20 grams olive oil
- 100 grams zucchini
- 100 grams carrot
- 50 grams sweet potato
- 800 grams crushed tomatoes
- 1 tablespoon mixed herbs
- 80 grams tomato paste
- 600 g beef mince
- 1 box Lasagna sheets
For the Cheese Sauce
- 30 grams butter
- 20 grans plain flour
- 250 grams milk
- 100 grams tasty cheese 3cm pieces
- 50 grams parmesan cheese 3cm pieces
- ½ teaspoon of nutmeg
- pinch to taste
Instructions
- Place the brown onion and garlic into your Thermomix bowl. Mix for 3 seconds, speed 7 to grate.
- Scrape down the sides of the bowl and add the zucchin, carrot and sweet potato which have all been cut into 3cm pieces. Mix for 5 seconds, speed 7 to grate.
- Scrape down the sides of the bowl and add the olive oil. Cook for 3 mins, varoma temperature, speed 2.
- Scrape down the sides of the Thermomix bowl and add the crushed tomatoes, mixed herbs and tomato paste. Place the beef mince into the steaming basket and break up with your spatula. Carefully place the basket into the Thermomix bowl and cook for 10 mins, varoma temperature, speed 3.
- Gently stir the mince and cook and cook for a further 4 minutes, varoma temperature, speed 2 – or until the mince has cooked through.
- Carefully transfer the meat into the Thermoix bowl and mix for 15 seconds, speed 3. Set aside while you make the cheese sauce.
Cheese sauce
- Place the pieces of the tasty and parmesan cheese into a clean Thermomix bowl and nix for 10 seconds on speed 9 or until finely grated.
- Add the butter, plain flour, milk, nutmeg and salt and pepper to your Thermomix bowl and cook for 7 minutes, 80 degrees on speed 4.
Putting the Lasagna Together
- Preheat your oven to 180 degrees and take out a large lasagna dish.
- Place a layer of pasta on the bottom of the dish and add ⅓ of the meat sauce. Place another layer of pasta on top before adding another ⅓ of the meat sauce on top. Repeat until you have used all of your meat sauce and have a layer of pasta on top.
- Pour the cheese sauce over the top layer of pasta and place the baking dish into the oven to cook for 35 – 40 minutes. Cut into pieces to serve.
Notes
- You can also use a mixture of beef and pork mince for this recipe.
- The vegetables can also be omitted or increased if your prefer, you can also substitute the sweet potato with an extra carrot if you wish.
- This Lasagna is freezer friendly and can be stored for up to three months.
- Either fresh or dry lasagna sheets can be used for this recipe.
Nutrition
Serving: 0gCalories: 784kcalCarbohydrates: 80gProtein: 40gFat: 34gSaturated Fat: 14gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 14gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 99mgSodium: 632mgPotassium: 1222mgFiber: 7gSugar: 15gVitamin A: 4855IUVitamin C: 22mgCalcium: 375mgIron: 6mg
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Ali
To be honest I do 80% recipe following your guidelines, but rather than cook mince in thermy, I do that on the stove to brown and then add the tomato veg sauce, and cook it on the stovetop to allow it to develop and reduce. Otherwise I find the tomato sauce becomes runny and also not very rich.
But all the rest is as you state and a great recipe in all 🙂
Love the hidden veg. I have a veggie aversion since having baby (so strange!) so adding to these types of dishes is great for me and my 3yo toddler!
Alicia Loughlin
My family love this recipe!! Thank you!!
If I wanted to double, do you think I could use the bigger dish for the top of the thermomix for 1kg of mince?
Lauren Matheson
Hi, I’m so glad you enjoyed it!!
I actually made a double version yesterday but cooked it on the stove. If you wanted to use the thermomix you could try popping the mince in the varoma tray I guess?
Sorry I cna’t be of more help x
Sally
Varoma tray works exactly the same as the basket
Lauren Matheson
Thanks Sally 🙂
Catherine
Hello Lauren
At what stage would you freeze this?
Also could I please have some reheating tips after freezing.
I have a huge batch of frozen beef mince, which I need to defrost and use all at once!!
Loving the look of all your mince recipes for this
Many thanks
Catherine
Lauren Matheson
Hi Catherine, I usually freeze this after I have cooked it. Normally I portion it and freeze so that I can easily grab a couple of serves to reheat. When reheating, I cover it with foil and cook at 190 for around 30 minutes – the time will vary though depending on the size of your pieces. I hope that helps 🙂
Lauren Harriss
Have just made this ans if the mix is anything to go buy it will be wonderful. I made two smaller ones. 1 with gluten free lasagna sheets for me and cauliflower puree as the top and the other as per recipe. I use cayene pepper instead of nutmeg as my family loves it.
Thanks for a great recipe with veg in it.
Karina
Mine turned out like slop. Both sauces were super runny. What happened!?
Lauren Matheson
Hi Karina, Sorry to hear the recipe didn’t turn out well for you. Possibly the water content in the tinned tomatoes/mince may have added extra liquid to the meat sauce. In regards to the cheese sauce, it is a ‘runny’ sauce, however if you prefer it thicker, it does thicken if you leave it standing for 10 minutes or so. Alternatively you can also cook it a little longer.
Karina
Thanks so much for your reply. Yes I did think that about the water in the meat sauce, I’ll try it again & maybe not add the full 100g of water. We just had it for dinner again tonight, the left overs, & it was delicious. 🙂
Nicki
Oh my goodness Lauren Thank You SO much! This is my 1st time cooking a meal in my Aldi Thermo cooker and not used the recipes in the handbook!. I was nervous but I shouldn’t have been, it turned out SO well! Hubby can’t believe I made it from scratch and even my fussy 7yo & 15yo went back for seconds! Winner!!
I decided to make the cheese sauce first but other than that, I followed your recipe. One happy family! Thanks Lauren <3
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Lucinda Penfold
Hi Lauren, I was just wondering if the varoma temp is for a TM5 or TM31? I have tm5 just checking? I want to start freezing these sort of meals for a busy family. Are there more meals like this one to freeze
Lauren Matheson
Hi Lucinda, I’ve got a TM5 and the varoma temp is the same as the steaming temp on a tm31 🙂
Rebecca Harris
Hi, I just found this recipe and am making it today. Very excited and hoping my toddler eats it up!!
Silly question though: do you take the sauce out of the TM bowl before putting the mince in the basket in?
Lauren Matheson
Hi Rebecca, I hope your toddler eats it too!! No you leave the sauce in the bowl as the liquid/heat from it helps the mince to cook.
Enjoy x