30-minute meals: Vegetable lasagne

In 30 minutes dinner can be on the table without tiring you out.

You will need:

• One bunch of spring onions.
• Half a tin of anchovies in oil.
• Six cloves of garlic.
• 700g asparagus.
• 500g frozen peas.
• 300g frozen broad beans.
• 60g of fresh mint.
• 300ml single cream.
• One lemon.
• 300ml vegetable stock.
• Two 250g tubs of cottage cheese.
• 500g fresh lasagne sheets.
• Parmesan cheese.
• Olive oil.
• A few sprigs of fresh thyme.

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What to do:

Preheat the oven to it maximum.

Trim and finely slice the spring onions.

Pour the oil from the anchovy tin into a large frying pan over a high heat, and then add the spring onions and anchovies.

Using a garlic crusher, crush the garlic straight into the pan and toss everything together well.

Line up the asparagus, trim off the woody ends, then finely slice and add the stems to the pan, reserving the tips for later.

Season with sea salt and black pepper; add one splash of boiling water and cook for a few minutes, or until softened, stirring occasionally.

Add the peas and broad beans to the pan, then pick, roughly chop and add the mint along with the cream. Finely grate in half the lemon zest.

Roughly mash and squash everything in the pan using a fork or a potato masher, then season to perfection with salt and pepper.

Pour in the stock and bring to the boil, then stir in one tub of cottage cheese – the consistency should be creamy and loose.

Place a deep roasting tray on a medium heat. Spoon in a quarter of the veggie mixture to cover the bottom of the tray, and then top with a layer of lasagne sheets, and Parmesan. Repeat the layers with the rest of the veg and pasta, finishing with a layer of lasagne sheets.

Mix the remaining tub of cottage cheese with one splash of water to loosen, then spread evenly over the top of the lasagne.

Toss the reserved asparagus tips in a drizzle of oil, then tip onto the lasagne, pushing everything down with the back of a spoon to compact.

Strip over the thyme leaves and finish with a drizzle of oil and a generous grating of Parmesan.

Turn the heat under the tray up to high and cook until the lasagne starts to bubble, then place under the grill on the middle shelf for eight minutes, or until golden and gorgeous. Delicious served with a seasonal green salad.

• Recipe obtained from www.jamieoliver.com