Noodle Free Lasagna

erinnpinky
erinnpinky Posts: 80 Member
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Hi everyone,
I love this recipe so much I had to share with MFP friends!

The total recipe is about 750 calories. With my giant runners appetite I split into two servings for 375 per serving. A normal person might split this into four, making it less than 200 calories per person!

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Ingredients:

1 green pepper, chopped
1 cup tomato sauce (light) - 60 calories per 1/2 cup
4 cups cooked spaghetti squash (usually one medium)
2/3 cups of yves veggie ground round (or your favorite ground turkey or beef)
1 cup cottage cheese
4 cups baby spinach (fresh)
3 chipotle peppers in adobo sauce
Green onion and cilantro, chopped

Directions:

Prepare the sauce by lighting frying the green pepper and chipotle peppers
Add in the green onions and cilantro, lightly fry some more
Add in tomato sauce
Season with salt and pepper
Let the sauce simmer

more detailed directions for cooking spaghetti squash and such at
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  • KANGOOJUMPS
    KANGOOJUMPS Posts: 6,474 Member
    yum!, so so good for runners,,, thanks!
  • erinnpinky
    erinnpinky Posts: 80 Member
    GO LEAFS!!!!
    I have runners hungry daily. People are AMAZED at how much I eat.
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member
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    That's not a lasagne. I don't know what it would be called but it certainly isn't lasagne.
  • AlsDonkBoxSquat
    AlsDonkBoxSquat Posts: 6,128 Member
    I'm gonna be the party pooper, this looks like a really yummy spaghetti squash dish (I'm a big fan of the spaghetti squash and using other squashes in place of noodles as I'm gluten free, so don't get me wrong) but this doesn't even look like the ingredients mimic lasagna, and the picture simply looks like a really yummy salad.

    If you are looking for a really good option for a fauxsagna, make lasagna but use a mandolin and slice zucchini and yellow squash lengthwise and use them in place of noodles.
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    It kinda looks like a salad.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    So ... it's pasta sauce with some cheese on it?
  • melinda189
    melinda189 Posts: 48
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    That's not a lasagne. I don't know what it would be called but it certainly isn't lasagne.

    lol! i agree
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    This is not lasagna at all, actually. This is lasagna.

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  • skullshank
    skullshank Posts: 4,323 Member
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  • Acg67
    Acg67 Posts: 12,142 Member
    No bechamel?
  • Pixi_Rex
    Pixi_Rex Posts: 1,676 Member
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    That's not a lasagne. I don't know what it would be called but it certainly isn't lasagne.

    You beat me to it.
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    Thanks for the salad recipe! Looks yummy!
  • escloflowneCHANGED
    escloflowneCHANGED Posts: 3,038 Member
    So ... it's pasta sauce with some cheese on it?

    ON LETTUCE!!!!
  • Alluminati
    Alluminati Posts: 6,208 Member
    yes bof of these :laugh:
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    That's not a lasagne. I don't know what it would be called but it certainly isn't lasagne.

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  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    So ... it's pasta sauce with some cheese on it?

    ON LETTUCE!!!!
    Good point.
  • Cranquistador
    Cranquistador Posts: 39,744 Member
    :angry:
  • BrainyBurro
    BrainyBurro Posts: 6,129 Member
    that's not lasagna.

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  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    would that make this "lasagna in a can"?

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    Only if you pour it over lettuce and add cheese.
  • lizziebeth1028
    lizziebeth1028 Posts: 3,602 Member
    Looks like a tasty spaghetti squash recipe but when this girl is in the mood for lasagna I want the real thing!!!! Pasta...yea baby!!!
  • magerum
    magerum Posts: 12,589 Member
    It's a salad, with tomato sauce.
  • AllonsYtotheTardis
    AllonsYtotheTardis Posts: 16,947 Member
    The total recipe is about 750 calories. With my giant runners appetite I split into two servings for 375 per serving. A normal person might split this into four, making it less than 200 calories per person!

    No, a normal person eats a meal that is more than 200 calories. Are you kidding me?



    And what's so evil about pasta?

    also, you appear to be spamming this site to drive traffic to your own website.
  • Iron_Lotus
    Iron_Lotus Posts: 2,295 Member
    As an Italian, this offends me!
  • deksgrl
    deksgrl Posts: 7,237 Member
    Cottage cheese in lasagna - just no. It's gotta be ricotta, with egg in it, and lots of mozzarella. And no pasta? Pshht. That's a veggie casserole.
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    also, you appear to be spamming this site to drive traffic to your own website.

    Nice catch!
  • AlsDonkBoxSquat
    AlsDonkBoxSquat Posts: 6,128 Member
    So ... it's pasta sauce with some cheese on it?

    I had to go back and double check, where's the cheese? Cottage chesse is not real cheese, SO WHERE'S THE FREAKING CHEESE?!!? I don't know why this is making me so mad, but the lack of cheese is infuriating to me! It has to have crispy crunchy oooey gooey cheese, lasagne must have cheese.
  • erinnpinky
    erinnpinky Posts: 80 Member
    I don't care at all about driving traffic to my site. I was simply trying to provide those that might not be as familiar with how to cook spaghetti squash as a link to more information. I share recipes all over the web and seem to experience the most negative reaction from MFP users. I never understand it as when I was trying to lose weight, I was always searching for lower calorie options and saying to "just eat pasta" wasn't an option as it was the pasta that got me nice and chunky in the first place.
    Perhaps my lasagna growing up wasn't the same as everyone else, but I took every ingredient from my family recipe and merely cut out the noodles and the cheese. I plated it more like a salad and added spaghetti squash....therefore, its my version of a noodle free lasagna. Whatever you want to call it - salad, spaghetti squash casserole, general sauce on squash...oh well! Have a great Monday everyone! I am making grilled eggplant tonight for dinner - I wonder what biased name I can call that recipe :)
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    The total recipe is about 750 calories. With my giant runners appetite I split into two servings for 375 per serving. A normal person might split this into four, making it less than 200 calories per person!

    No, a normal person eats a meal that is more than 200 calories. Are you kidding me?



    And what's so evil about pasta?

    also, you appear to be spamming this site to drive traffic to your own website.


    Exactly.
    At least this time she actually listed the ingredients. In another recipe thread she made sure you had to go to the site.
  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    That looks gross. :sick:
  • skullshank
    skullshank Posts: 4,323 Member
    I share recipes all over the web

    please stop.

    sincerely,
    the internet
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Perhaps my lasagna growing up wasn't the same as everyone else, but I took every ingredient from my family recipe and merely cut out the noodles and the cheese. I plated it more like a salad and added spaghetti squash....therefore, its my version of a noodle free lasagna.

    What you made was marinara sauce on lettuce with cottage cheese on it.

    There is nothing "lasagna" about that. The spaghetti squash makes it a little bit like pasta with marinara sauce, but why the lettuce? And cottage cheese does not belong anywhere near any kind of lasagna.

    You basically poured pasta sauce on lettuce, put cottage cheese on it and called it lasagna.

    You get negative reactions here because most of us are foodies of some sort and we resepct good food.

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