I Lost My Noodles! Low Carb/South Beach Eggplant Lasagna
I was looking for a yummy South Beach recipe to curb my Italian Cravings. I found a vegetarian lasagna recipe using eggplant slices as noodles, substituted my own meat sauce, and voila! A low carb keeper in our home! The eggplant taste is indistinguishable with all of the bold italian flavors, and adds the needed texture of the missing noodles. I've also seen zucchini strips used as the mock noodles. Try it!
Reviews
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I absolutely loved this the flavour was perfect it tasted just like real lasagna. I am diabetic and can't have pasta anymore but I love lasagna and this is perfect for me. I didn't use the wine and for the meat I used ground beef. I think I made my eggplant a bit too thin and it almost melted away in the dish while cooking that's why it looks a bit muddled in the picture but the flavour was fantastic I will be making this again. I got one large dish and a smaller one and that was me cutting the recipe by half it's a great recipe for putting one in the freezer for an other day when I am short of time. Thank you so much for posting. Made for on tour with the diabetic forum. June 2011 -
I decided to make this as I am trying to cut back on carbs. It was very tasty however I think next time I'll opt to use the red wine in lieu of the vodka as I thought the sauce was a tad bitter. When we had left-overs the next night I ended up adding jarred spaghetti sauce hoping to get rid of some of the bitter taste, it was good!
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The taste was good but it was way too much meat sauce and cheese to fit a 9x13 dish pan. There is just no way everything was going to fit without overflowing. The meat sauce was too watery with all the tomato sauce and tomato. Are we supposed to drain the juices before layering them? I like the taste but the recipe is not well written. Need to be more specific.
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This was an amazing dish for me. I have been soo restricted on what I can eat, nothing was appealing to me, I looked at this and though, "Might not b worth the effort" boy was I wrong! But I sure do disagree with 15 min prep lol or else I am extremely slow lol
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I'm doing Atkins, and this really cured my Lasagna cravings! Wonderful! I added 1 tsp Splenda to the sauce to cut the heartburn. Also threw in a can of tomato paste to thicken the sauce up. I didn't have fresh garlic, so I sprinkled garlic salt on the eggplant "noodles" instead of salt & pepper, and also added garlic powder to the sauce. Thanx for sharing! This will help keep me honest to my diet!
