{"id":25174,"date":"2025-07-29T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=25174"},"modified":"2025-07-11T14:07:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T18:07:25","slug":"celebrate-national-lasagna-day-today-try-this-chickpea-lasagna-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/29\/celebrate-national-lasagna-day-today-try-this-chickpea-lasagna-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate National Lasagna Day Today \u2013 Try this Chickpea Lasagna recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25175\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Chickpea-Lasagna.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25175\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25175\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Chickpea-Lasagna.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chickpea Lasagna photo by Rissa Miller<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a previous issue of <em>Vegan Journal<\/em> Leslie Gray Streeter shared the following creative lasagna recipe. The entire article can be read here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2021issue1\/2021_issue1_sheet_pan.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2021issue1\/2021_issue1_sheet_pan.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chickpea Lasagna<\/strong><br \/>\n(Serves 6)<\/p>\n<p>One 15.5-ounce can chickpeas, drained and rinsed<br \/>\n1-2 teaspoons dried oregano, to taste<br \/>\n1 teaspoon garlic powder<br \/>\nOne 25-ounce jar vegan marinara sauce, divided<br \/>\n3 cups fresh spinach, roughly chopped<br \/>\n2 cups chopped portobello mushrooms<br \/>\nOne 10-ounce package no-bake lasagna noodles<br \/>\n1\/4 cup nutritional yeast, plus 1 Tablespoon to serve<br \/>\n2 Tablespoons olive oil<br \/>\nFresh basil, chopped, to serve<\/p>\n<p>Preheat oven to 400 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>In a small bowl mix the chickpeas, oregano, and garlic powder. Mash into a paste using a fork or potato masher. If needed, add a little water to make smooth.<\/p>\n<p>Cover the bottom of the sheet pan with edges at least 9 x 13-inch with 3\/4-1 cup of marinara sauce, then cover the sauce with 6-8 lasagna noodles, depending on the size of your pan. Spoon more sauce onto the noodles, followed by the chickpea-mash, spinach, and portobellos. Cover with 6-8 more noodles.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, mix the remaining sauce with 1\/4 cup nutritional yeast and olive oil to give the mixture a cheesy consistency, and entirely coat the noodles with it.<\/p>\n<p>Cover tightly with foil, as the lasagna may be taller than pan edges, and bake for 20-25 minutes. Remove foil and bake for another 8-10 minutes or until the edges are crispy. Serve warm topped with chopped fresh basil and sprinkle with reserved nutritional yeast.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to <em>Vegan Journal <\/em>in the USA at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous issue of Vegan Journal Leslie Gray Streeter shared the following creative lasagna recipe. The entire article can be read here: https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2021issue1\/2021_issue1_sheet_pan.php Chickpea Lasagna (Serves 6) One 15.5-ounce can chickpeas, drained and rinsed 1-2 teaspoons dried oregano, to taste 1 teaspoon garlic powder One 25-ounce jar vegan marinara sauce, divided 3 cups fresh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25176,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25174\/revisions\/25176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}