Recipe: Baha Vegetarian Lasagna - Bruce Bradley (2024)

• originally published July 7, 2015

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Summer is officially here! While I love to cook for my family, this time of year it can be a challenge to drag myself into the kitchen while everyone else is outside playing and enjoying the beautiful weather. Enter the make-ahead, one-dish dinner!

Credit for this recipe goes to my good friend and co-worker, Ruth. We first had this dish about sevenyears ago when we were pregnant with our second child and moving into our new home. Ruth brought a pan over, we popped it into the oven, set up our dining room table, and sat down to eat with boxes all around us.

Since then we’vehad a third child and moved to another new home…but we still have fond memories of that crazy moving day, and that first meal in our new home. We got the recipe from her way back then, and it’s been a part of our regular meal rotation ever since!

Why do we love Baha Vegetarian Lasagna so much?

• It’s a one-dish meal that comes together quickly thanks to mostly canned and frozen ingredients. Eating real food doesn’t always have to mean spending hours in the kitchen cooking everything from scratch!
• You can make this recipe and bake it right away, or keep it in the fridgeand cook it later.
• It works well for feeding a large crowd because you can easily double the recipe and make two pans at once.
• The leftovers taste great! In fact, like traditional lasagna, itmight even be better the second time! My husband likes to have a piece for breakfast with a fried egg on top!The leftovers also freeze well.
• It’s naturally both gluten-free and vegetarian.

Serve this with your favorite Mexican food garnishes such as cilantro, green onions, avocado, sour cream, salsa, etc. Sometimes we serve the lasagna over a pile of greens with sautéed bell peppers or zucchini and onions. And we like to finish this meal with red grapes for dessert.

So next time you’re looking for an easy one-dish dinner or just craving Mexican food, give Baha Vegetarian Lasagna a try!

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Kelly Harjes is a Certified Holistic Health Coach and founder of Appetite for Healthy Change™. Her mission is to inspire others to look and feel their best, feed their families well, and help improve our food system.

Kitchen Tips and Resources from Bruce:

• We recommend sprouted corn tortillas. Food for Life sprouted corn tortillas are available at Whole Foods and most food co-ops.
• I use Crate and Barrel’s everyday casserole dishes to cook up my lasagna. They come in all different sizes, they’re plenty deep (no spilling over), and they look great when you’re serving guests!
• An effortless shredder for the grated cheese in thisrecipe is a super kitchen tool to have on hand!I love this super microplane coarse cheese grater. It makes grating a cup of cheese so quick and easythatyou might not even miss the convenience of thosepre-shredded cheeses which are usuallycoated with things like wood fibers/cellulose to keep the cheese from clumping in the bag.
• A great kitchen spatula helps serve up slices of this wonderful vegetarian lasagna. Although most spatulas can do the job, I love my OXO Good Grips Silicone Turnerthat’s available on Amazon and a bunch of different retailers.

• Updated November 28, 2023