BEST Vegan Lasagna Recipe | How To Make Easy Meatless Lasagna (2024)

Need the perfect vegan lasagna that’s meatless and delicious? Something to impress even meat-eater friends and family? You’ve come to the right website for delicious vegan recipes! This recipe is a warm, comforting lasagna that’s the BEST for vegans, vegetarians or dairy-free eaters!

Warm, cheesy, filling, and easy to make, this Vegan Lasagna is the perfect dinner to share, or to make ahead. It stores well in the fridge and eaten through the week, or make a few trays and freeze them, ready to bake any day.

BEST Vegan Lasagna Recipe | How To Make Easy Meatless Lasagna (1)Related Recipe: Vegan Bechamel Sauce

I love everything about lasagna, from the cheesy bechamel sauce to the meat sauce and overall sounds of “OMG THIS IS SO GOOD” that my stomach makes. You can also use my vegan ricotta cheese recipe inside the lasagna!

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Although the idea of making most of the components of vegan lasagna can seem like a big task, once you get the sauces started, the dish comes together in layered perfection.

INGREDIENTS FOR THE BEST VEGAN LASAGNA RECIPE

FOR THE MEAT SAUCE

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To start making this lasagna, make the meat sauce first. To do this, heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add the onion, carrots, and garlic. Cook them for 8-10 minutes, until you can feel the carrots get softer and smell the garlic become fragrant. Add veggie ground round and cook for 3-5 minutes, until it gets heated through. Pour in the passata, crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, bouillon, basil, oregano, and red pepper flakes. Mix everything and bring to a boil. Once boiling, reduce heat to simmer, add agave and taste the sauce. Season with salt and pepper as desired. Cover pot and simmer, stirring occasionally, for roughly 20-30 minutes, or until the sauce is slightly thickened.

While this sauce simmers, prepare the Vegan Bechamel Sauce. Click here for Bechamel Sauce recipe!

BEST Vegan Lasagna Recipe | How To Make Easy Meatless Lasagna (3)To assemble the Lasagna:

Once both sauces are prepared, preheat the oven to 350F. Scoop 1 cup of the ‘meat sauce’ to the bottom of 9×13 inch baking dish, spread it evenly. Cover with lasagna sheets, breaking if needed so they fit nicely. Layer with roughly 2 cups of meat sauce to cover the pasta sheets, then 1 cup of the bechamel sauce. Repeat until your baking dish gets pretty full and you start running low on sauces. the last layer should be a thick amount of meat sauce topped with bechamel.

Cover loosely with tin foil and bake for 25 minutes. Remove foil and bake for another 10-15 minutes until golden and bubbling. Remove from the oven and garnish with parsley. Let sit for 10 minutes before slicing into squares and serving.

Voila! The Best Vegan Lasagna Recipe with Bechamel Sauce!

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I love everything about lasagna, from the cheese sauce to the meat sauce to the silent G, this dish is one of the classics.

Author: The Edgy Veg

Recipe type: Main

Cuisine: Italian

Serves: 4-6 servings

Ingredients

Lasagna

Meat Sauce

Instructions

For the Meat Sauce:

  1. In a large pot heat olive oil over medium heat.
  2. Add onion, carrots and garlic and cook for 8-10 minutes, or until the carrots are softened and the garlic fragrant.
  3. Add ground round and cook for 3-5 minutes or until heated through.
  4. Add Passata, crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, bouillon cubes, basil, oregano, and red pepper flakes. Combine and bring to a boil.
  5. Reduce heat to a simmer, add agave, taste and season to taste with salt and pepper.
  6. Cover sauce and simmer, stirring occasionally, for roughly 20-30 minutes or until
  7. the sauce has thickened slightly.
  8. While sauce is simmering, prepare vegan bechamel.

Assembling the lasagna:

  1. Preheat your oven to 350F.
  2. Spoon about 1 cup of meat sauce on the bottom of a 9x13-inch baking dish.
  3. Cover with lasagna sheets, then enough meat sauce to cover the pasta (roughly 2 cups), and then 1 cup of bechamel.
  4. Repeat layers.
  5. The last layer should be a think amount of meat sauce topped with bechamel.
  6. Cover loosely with aluminum foil.
  7. Bake for 25 minutes.
  8. Remove foil, and bake an additional 10-15 minutes or until golden and bubbling.
  9. Remove from oven and garnish with chopped parsley.
  10. Let stand for 10 minutes before slicing.
  11. Serve.

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FAQs

What can I use instead of meat in lasagna? ›

A: For the meaty ragu, vegan lasagnas can be made with a vegan meat alternative or simply with finely minced mushrooms and lentils. Crumbled tempeh works great too! For the creamy white sauce, the milk and butter can be replaced for non-dairy alternatives. Try soy milk and vegan butter instead.

How do you keep veggie lasagna from getting soggy? ›

For this recipe, we help reduce excess moisture by using no-boil noodles, cooking the mushrooms, onion and bell peppers before adding them to the lasagna, and squeezing the liquid out of the cooked spinach with a kitchen towel. You want your veggies as dry as possible so you are not adding more moisture than necessary.

What is vegan lasagna made of? ›

Layered with a rich marinara, creamy ricotta, spinach, noodles and topped with ooey-gooey vegan mozzarella cheese. No need to pre-cook the noodles! After 400+ 5-star reviews, it's safe to say that this is the BEST vegan lasagna recipe ever!

Who makes meatless lasagna? ›

Stouffer's Vegetable Lasagna is meatless and perfect for your vegetarian guests.

What can I make instead of meat? ›

42 Dinner Ideas If You're Trying To Cut Back On Meat Or Dairy
  • Sticky Sesame Cauliflower Bites. ...
  • Creamy Mushroom Risotto. ...
  • Sweet Potato Fajitas. ...
  • One-Pot Spaghetti with Vegetables. ...
  • Spinach-Pesto Pasta. ...
  • Black Bean Green Chili Enchiladas. ...
  • Lentil-Chickpea Yellow Curry. ...
  • Cashew Ricotta and Parmesan–Stuffed Shells.
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What is a vegan egg substitute for lasagna? ›

9 Best Vegan Egg Substitutes for Baking
  1. Flaxseed Egg. 1 egg= 1 tablespoon ground flaxseed+ 3 tablespoon water. ...
  2. Chia Egg. 1 egg= 1 tablespoon chia seeds+ 3 tablespoon water. ...
  3. Applesauce. 1 egg= ¼ cup applesauce. ...
  4. Pumpkin puree. ...
  5. Mashed Banana. ...
  6. Baking soda and apple cider vinegar. ...
  7. Silken tofu. ...
  8. Plant-based yogurt (unsweetened)
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How long does homemade veggie lasagna last? ›

Leftover vegetarian lasagna keeps well in an airtight container or covered dish in the refrigerator for up to 4 days. Reheat it in the microwave or a 350°F oven. To freeze vegetable lasagna: Assemble the lasagna in the baking dish. Cover tightly with foil and store in the freezer for up to 3 months.

Can you leave vegetarian lasagna out overnight? ›

The guidelines for food handling recommend that food only be left out for 2 hours at the most.

What keeps lasagna from falling apart? ›

A helpful technique can prevent this pitfall from sabotaging your lasagna: Reduce your sauce to thicken it before pouring it into the casserole. A thin sauce runs right off of cooked lasagna noodles, causing all the layers to slide off of each other, as well.

How to make vegan lasagna dough? ›

Method
  1. Place flour into mixing bowl.
  2. Add oil to the flour.
  3. Add luke warm water to the mix and blend together.
  4. Once the mix has started to take form sprinkle some flour over the work surface and knead the dough until the mix has blended completely.
Jul 1, 2022

Can you buy vegan lasagna sheets? ›

San Remo No. 228 Gluten Free and Vegan Lasagne Sheets provide a premium quality substitute for gluten free and vegan diets without sacrificing taste. The sheets are also suitable for dairy free and egg free diets. Create lasagne with roast vegetables, pesto and other diet appropriate ingredients.

Does Stouffer's make a meatless lasagna? ›

STOUFFERS: Veggie Lovers Lasagna.

What happened to Stouffer's lasagna? ›

Nestle whittled down the ingredient list in Stouffer's lasagna with meat and sauce to 15 from 19 by removing autolyzed yeast extract, carrageenan, dextrose and bleached wheat flour. The reformulated products are rolling out nationwide.

What are the ingredients in Stouffer's veggie lovers lasagna? ›

INGREDIENTS: SAUCE & VEGETABLES: SKIM MILK, WATER, PART-SKIM MOZZARELLA CHEESE AND MODIFIED CORNSTARCH (PART-SKIM MOZZARELLA CHEESE [CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES], MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, SKIM MILK, FLAVORS), CARROTS, BROCCOLI, SPINACH, ONIONS, PARMESAN CHEESE (CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES), SOYBEAN OIL, MODIFIED ...

Does Costco sell vegetarian lasagna? ›

Amy's Organic Vegetable Lasagna, 9.5 oz, 6 ct | Costco.

Does lasagna need meat? ›

There are many traditional lasagne pasta bakes, some require meat and some don't. Lasagne alla modenese are made with green pasta (it includes some very finely minced spinaches in the dough) and a ragù made with minced meat. Neapolitan lasagne di carnevale include tiny meatballs.

What can I use instead of ground meat in spaghetti? ›

There are many delicious and nutritious options to substitute for meat in spaghetti. Some popular choices include diced vegetables such as mushrooms, bell peppers, and zucchini, as well as plant-based protein sources like tofu, tempeh, or lentils.

What can I use instead of ground beef in casserole? ›

Lentils. Brown lentils, due to their small shape and similar color, make an excellent stand-in for ground beef. These legumes can be cooked from dry or use the canned variety for extra convenience. Left whole, lentils can make a hearty addition to shepherd's pie and meatless meatloaf.

What is a meat substitute in the form of a loaf or casserole? ›

Tofurkey (a portmanteau of tofu and turkey) is a plant-based meat substitute patterned after turkey, in the form of a loaf of vegetarian protein, usually made from tofu (soybean protein) or seitan (wheat protein) with a stuffing made from grains or bread, flavored with a broth and seasoned with herbs and spices.

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