This Easy Spinach Lasagna is a smaller batch lasagna recipe made with no boil noodles. It’s a great, quick and easy weeknight dinner recipe!
If you’re looking for a traditional, tall layer lasagna that is filled with meats and cheeses and red sauce then this isn’t the lasagna you’re looking for. This Easy Spinach Lasagna is quite a bit lighter and it’s a lower fat option when compared to a traditional lasagna. It’s divided by layers of spinach and ricotta cheese, and it uses a white sauce instead of red.
How to make Easy Spinach Lasagna:
Since this is a smaller batch lasagna, you will need an 11×7-inch dish for this recipe. Amazon can deliver the one that I linked for you the same day in many cities. I love that convenience!
First you’ll make the white sauce. Onions are sautéed, and then flour is stirred in. 1% milk, salt and pepper are added last. The sauce is heated until slightly thickened and hot (about 5 minutes.) One cup of sauce is spread into the bottom of the pan, then 3 no-boil lasagna noodles are laid on top. Half of the ricotta filling is spread on top of the noodles (a mix of ricotta, spinach, egg white and nutmeg). Then layer one more cup of sauce, more lasagna noodles, the rest of the filling, and another cup of sauce. The remaining noodles are placed on top and the remaining sauce too. Continue reading for optional cheese add-ins. Print the full recipe at the end of this post.
Optional add-ins:
Since this recipe is designed to be much lighter than the lasagna you’re probably used to eating, it doesn’t have extra cheeses in it. If you want this lasagna to be cheesy, add shredded mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses to each layer. Add it to the top too. It will be extra cheesy this way!
The recipe makes 6 servings. If you’re a hungry bunch, it’s perfect for three people with room for a second helping. And if you’re a couple, it’s a good one for enjoying lunch leftovers the following day.
Weight Watchers friendly lasagna:
As written, this Easy Spinach Lasagna is one that works for the Weight Watchers WW plan. The lasagna should be cut into 6 equal servings. There is a link to the WW Points in the recipe card at the end of this post. It’s a hefty point count to use, but it’s pasta so that makes it higher. Any additional (optional) cheeses that you add to the lasagna should be counted as extra points.
Here are a few more recipes using spinach that you might like to try:
- Greek Spinach Pie
- Spinach and Cheese Stuffed Shells
- Onion, Bacon and Spinach Frittata
- Spinach Macaroni and Cheese
- Spinach and Cheese Stuffed Manicotti
- Chicken and Spinach Enchiladas
- Spinach Ranch Dip
- Spinach Balls
Easy Spinach Lasagna
Ingredients
SAUCE:
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- ¼ cup finely chopped onion
- 3 tablespoons all purpose flour
- 4 cups 1% milk
- salt and pepper, to taste
FILLING:
- 15 ounces fat free ricotta cheese
- 10 ounces frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
- 1 large egg white
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
NOODLES & TOPPING
- 9 no-boil lasagna noodles
- Parmesan cheese for topping, optional
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400°F.
- Heat the oil in a nonstick saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the onion and cook until slightly wilted, about 3 minutes. Add the flour, stirring until blended. Whisk in the milk and bring to a boil. Boil until the white sauce thickens, about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat. Add salt and pepper, to taste.
- Meanwhile, combine the ricotta cheese, spinach, egg white and nutmeg in a bowl. Spoon 1 cup of the sauce onto the bottom of an 11x7-inch baking dish. Arrange 3 noodles over the sauce. Spread ½ of the ricotta mixture evenly over the noodles. Top with 1 cup sauce. Layer 3 more noodles, the remaining ricotta mixture, and 1 cup sauce. Top with the remaining noodles and sauce. Bake, uncovered, until hot and bubbly, 20 to 25 minutes.
Notes
- If you want a cheesy element to this lasagna, add shredded mozzarella and Parmesan between layers and on top. Note that the nutritional information will change with added cheeses.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I hope tastes better than it looks. I couldn’t get the sauce to thicken.I followed the recipe to the T.
How did it end up? Like the photos?
SAME, my sauce would not thicken up, I boiled it for 10 minutes. Just to see If that would work. Nope, but I cooked it anyways.
It was great. My sauce was runny so I just made a roux with 2T butter and 2T in a separate pot and added it to the sauce – perfect. Also I didn’t have any nutmeg so I used a little garam masala.