I've found one of the best things about having a toddler is the random things they say. More often than not, Mack is making up something silly or playing pretend. One of his more recent pretend play has involved food. He pretends to 'pick' food and it's anything from broccoli to chocolate ice cream. I've decided that when I can, I'm going to turn his ideas into recipes.
Enter this zucchini lasagna. He picked 'green lasagna' and I took it upon myself to create a delicious, green lasagna. I'm not a big fan of using zucchini as noodles and would rather have it as a vegetable. However, you could replace the noodles for slices of zucchini- it's up to you. There's a lot of goodness packed into this zucchini lasagna!
There's a reason I included lasagna as a base recipe in The Easy Vegetarian Kitchen- it's easy to adapt. With this zucchini lasagna, you could go back to a more traditional lasagna with marinara or stuff more vegetables into the mix- it's up to you!
Marinara: For a more traditional lasagna, replace the pesto with marinara. You could also do this and still use a smaller amount of pesto still mixed into the ricotta.
Cheese: I usually keep my lasagna cheese fairly straight forward. However, you could use any type of cheese you might have on hand. Gouda, havarti, and fontina are a few of my favorites.
Pesto: I love this updated pesto that I've adapted from this recipe. You could easily use traditional pesto too.
I've always found the idea of 'too much zucchini' to be false in my kitchen- I can never have too much. I'll happily take any or all of this summer produce and turn it into quick bread or fritters. Of course, that's just the start. A few of my other favorite zucchini recipes:
Corn Cilantro Cakes with Roasted Zucchini Salsa
Grilled Zucchini with Lemon Labneh and Za’atar
Zucchini (Summer) Paella
I love lasagna but I've never tried this kind! I rarely use zucchini, mainly because I don't know many recipes with it. Your recipe deserves a try, Erin!