Need a Reason to Love Lasagna?

Written By Leanne de Groot
 

I don’t think I have met with a person (except me) who doesn’t like lasagna. But after last night’s dinner, I am now joining the camp of lasagna lovers.

I’m not always gluten or dairy free but when I can I do choose to avoid both. I guess that’s why lasagna and all other edible creations covered in a dairy based white sauce have never enticed me. But the cold of last night brought on a lasagna request from my son. I knew I didn’t have time to create a few different meals, so I got a little creative.

Diary free (aka - cauliflower bechamel proxy) to the rescue! I teamed it with an eggplant and beef lasagna (aka - gluten-free lasagna variety).

Grab the recipe below and let me know what you and your family think …

Delicious Easy 

Dairy  and Gluten Free 

Bechamel Sauce 

Prep Time: 30 minutes
Serves 4

Ingredients:

  • Leek - 1 large or 2 small, white part only, roughly chopped or one medium brown onion (oops I left this out of the photo) 

  • Oil - 15g (I use olive oil but you could use coconut oil)

  • Cauliflower - 400g, roughly chopped

  • Bone Broth Concentrate  - 1level Tsp of the paste (I love “Best of The Bone” brand) 

  • Water - 250g

  • Coconut Flour - 1 Tbsp

  • Coconut Milk - 1 Tbsp 

Optional seasonings: (I used all three - add amounts to your taste)

  • Organic paprika

  • Himalayan salt

  • Organic pepper

Method:

  • Wash and roughly chop leeks (1-2) or onion if using, to a thermomix bowl. Chop Speed 5 / 4 seconds. Scrape down sides.

  • Add the oil (15g) to the bowl. Program 2 minutes / 100C / Speed 1.

  • Add the roughly chopped cauliflower (400g) to the bowl. Chop Speed 5-6 / 5 seconds.

  • Add bone broth paste (1 Tsp) and water (250g) to the bowl. Program 20 minutes / 100C / Speed 1.

  • Add coconut milk and flour (1 Tbsp each), paprika, salt and pepper as required. Increase speed slowly up to blend for 1 minute / Speed 10.

PS: My son didn’t even notice the difference and it looks like the leftovers got taken for lunch today. Winner!

 
Leanne de Groot

My contribution is a union of nutrition, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork & movement intertwined with behaviour change and how it impacts a life worth living.

As a health and fitness professional, I want to shift the paradigm toward one of self-love and self-care instead of an aesthetic insecurity-based industry. Let’s move away from the trail of being overweight, body shape dissatisfaction, the daily dose of pharmaceutical and social drugs, persistent envy, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, and a life full of pressure to keep up, skip steps, and rush.

Living without awareness and intention creates pressures that we are not doing, we are not moving fast enough, as bosses, workers, weekend warriors, friends, lovers, parents, siblings, or grandparents. We have to be able and willing to step outside the pull of unhealthy and unhealthful cultural norms and make the critical space to do our meaningful thinking.

The first thing I need people to take in is if they are going to work with me or read my work because for me this re-frames the core of moving through all obstacles we have around stress, rush, health, weight, etc … The very blantant truth is that living under the guise of society’s expectations - is not living.

We have been fed a narrative that stepping outside or away from norms is the wrong way to exist and this narrative furthers unhappiness, unhealthiness, pressure, and a life that is too fast to enjoy.

Wherever we are, this is life—it’s happening right now, and I’ve decided that I am not going to rush through it and I invite you to join me today …

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