Vegetable lasagna is the meatless variant of the well-known Italian dish based on sheets-shaped pasta. Curiously enough, the word “lasagna” doesn’t come from Latin or Italian, but from Greek language. Its initial meaning was “chamber pot”. Later on, the word was imported in the Latin language, with the meaning of “cooking pot”. Today, lasagna refers to the food itself rather than the dish used for cooking it. The plural, lasagne, is also used by many Italian people.

Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 50-60 minutes
Serving: 4 very hungry people or 6 normal ones
 

Vegetable soup is the generic name for thousand soup recipes. If you’re creative, you can experience new flavors and tastes each time you prepare it, by using different spices and vegetable mixes. Depending on the season, you can replace some veggies with others, you can add beef or chicken broth to it, you can even add a nice, big pork chop inside it (although this may not be the healthiest combination of all).

Here’s a vegetable soup recipe you can cook all year round, because what you can’t find fresh in some seasons, will surely be available frozen and ready-cut in small pieces. Of course, fresh is always nicer, yet a frozen vegetable mix can save you some time when you’re in a hurry but still want to cook some healthy meal.

Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Serving: 4-6 people