Vegetarian Lasagne Soup
Here’s a recipe you never knew you needed. It’s lasagne… in soup form! Lasagne soup!
It’s got all the same tasty flavours as the best vegetarian lasagne you’ve ever had – richness, tomatoeyness, creaminess, cheesiness – but it’s something a bit different, and it’s a lot less faff to make. And you know how I love a low faff meal.
Putting pasta in soup isn’t a new idea – minestrone soup has been around for years, after all – but I’ve never used sheets of lasagne in a soup until now. It actually works really well! Just break up the sheets into bitesized pieces and cook them right there in the tasty tomato soup. They’re really satisfying to slurp up!
Just before serving, the lasagne soup is brought to life by some pieces of gooey, partially-melted mozzarella, fresh basil pesto, and a good glug of cream. It’s irresistible.
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🥗 Ingredients
Here’s what you’ll need to make this recipe. See the printable recipe card below for detailed ingredient quantities.
- dried lasagne sheets
- vegetables – I used onion, carrots, mushrooms and celery
- canned tomatoes
- basil pesto
- fresh mozzarella
- cream
- vegetable stock (a stock cube + water, jelly stock, or liquid stock all work fine)
- garlic (I used garlic puree from a jar because I hate mincing garlic and the jarred stuff is so much quicker and more convenient)
- dried thyme
Becca’s Top Tip
This lasagne soup is designed to remind you of your favourite vegetarian lasagne, so feel free to use whatever vegetables you love to see in lasagne. For example, if you like peppers or courgette in a lasagne, use those too! You could even add some vegetarian minced ‘meat’.
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🖨️ Printable Instructions
Creamy Vegetarian Lasagne Soup
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Print Pin CommentIngredients
- 1 Tbsp oil
- 1 small onion (or 1/2 large)
- 2 medium carrots (~ 160g / ~ 5 1/2 oz)
- 1 large celery stick (~ 80g / ~ 3 oz)
- 125 g (~ 4 1/2 oz) mushrooms
- 1 tsp minced garlic
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- 400 g tin (~ 1 1/3 cups) chopped tomatoes
- 1 vegetable stock cube, crumbled
- 750 ml (~ 3 cups) water
- 200 g (~ 7 oz) dried lasagne sheets
- 2 Tbsp basil pesto
- 125 ml (~ 1/2 cup) single cream
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 125 g (~ 4 1/2 oz) fresh mozzarella
Instructions
- Heat the oil in a large saucepan over a medium heat. Dice the onion, carrots, celery, and mushrooms quite finely, and add them to the pan. Cook for 5-10 minutes, stirring regularly, until slightly softened, but not browned.
- Add the minced garlic and thyme, and cook for 2 more minutes. Then add the tin of tomatoes, as well as the crumbled stock cube and water (or liquid stock, if you prefer). Snap the lasagne sheets into bitesized pieces, and add them to the pan, mixing well.
- Bring the mixture to a simmer, and cook for around 15 minutes, or until the pasta is just cooked. Make sure you stir regularly to stop the pasta sheets from sticking together. Then add the pesto and cream, and bring to a gentle simmer.
- Mix well, and add the fresh mozzarella, torn into bitesized chunks. Stir the cheese into the hot soup.
- Serve the lasagne soup while the mozzarella is gooey but still holding its shape. I garnished mine with some fresh basil.
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Nutrition
Nutritional information is approximate, and will depend on your exact ingredients. Please calculate your own nutritional values if you require accuracy for health reasons.
💭 Recipe FAQs
Yes! It reheats nicely in the microwave. I personally love it when the mozzarella cheese keeps its shape, as it makes little pockets of gooeyness throughout the soup, so I would add the mozzarella just before serving if preparing in advance.
This soup is a full meal on its own. However, I would definitely recommend serving it with a bit of garlic bread for mopping up the bowl!
When I use the tomatoes you use I find about a salad tomato’s worth of skin in bits in the can.
Do you find this and how do you get rid of it or am I just lucky lol
Really?! In the Grower’s Harvest ones? I’ve never found that!
Yummy! What does faff mean?
I had to look that up, too, and it means to waste time, especially something that isnt important. Maybe fuss is a good American substitute? :). Faff is a great word, I wonder if I can work it into a sentence around here 😆
Stress, hassle, time wasting, all that kind of thing :) Sorry, must be a Britishism!