My eating has kind of been all over the place for the last 10 days or so. Since my husband has a broken jaw and his teeth have been wired shut, my dinners have been super easy and quick. He can only eat soups that have been liquified, smoothies, milkshakes, etc… so the kids have been making their own dinners, a sandwich, some pasta, or I’ll have a bowl of cereal or scrambled eggs. I feel bad eating good food in front of him, so my LUNCH dishes have been a little more deluxe. In comes my lasagna for 1! It’s super easy and can be customized a million ways depending on what you have on hand..
I had these lasagna noodles, and I knew I had some more of the ground turkey from my pot stickers I made yesterday, so I knew that would be in my filling too.
Ingredients:
3 sheets of lasagna noodles (these were the no boil kind)
4 oz. ground turkey
1 cup tomato sauce (to which I added cumin and a little chili powder)
1 TB. taco seasoning
1 oz. Mexican shredded cheese
1/4 onion
handful of broccoli slaw (chopped)
1 clove of garlic chopped
Directions:
I have a small ramekin which I used to layer my lasagna for one. I snapped each lasagna noodle in half, which gave me 6 layers in my lasagna (for only 160 calories!)
In a small skillet, add the onion, garlic and broccoli slaw and saute until tender.
Next add the ground turkey and cook until its cooked through, and then I added the taco seasoning (from a packet) with a tablespoon of water.
This is the cheese I used:
I started layering the ramekin. I put a little sauce on the bottom, a lasagna sheet, some of the turkey mixture, a touch of cheese, and kept going until I was out of lasagna sheets. this is what it looked like before going into the oven:
The directions on the lasagna noodle box recommended you cook it for 50-60 minutes. Since I just made 1 serving of lasagna, I cooked it at 375 covered with aluminum foil for about 40 minutes, and let rest for about 5 minutes.
Since I was cooking this based on ingredients I had, I thought of several ways you could make this even better. You could add black beans, corn, maybe some salsa, you could have used taco sauce instead of the tomato sauce. You could add spinach or shredded zucchini.
This huge portion was 460 calories! And the best part was, I couldn’t even finish it all! I thought it tasted great!
What are your favorite things to make for 1 person??
Lasagna is one of my favorite 1 person meals! I use the 5″ mini loaf pan and make 2 servings, but I love the ramekin idea!
I also love to do stir fry for one, that’s simple! 🙂
That is brilliant, Jennifer!
My favorite meal for one is a shrimp fajita bowl! YUM 🙂
What a clever idea! If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery you should be knocked over with flattery right about now ’cause I’m stealing this one!
Great dish! I love making anything with eggs when I’m by myself.
Pretty much the only homemade thing I made for one would be a dip of some sort. I love artichoke salsa dip and hummus, any kind of hummus but I am alone with this love. So i’ll just make it for myself and enjoy!
You are so creative – I love this idea of Mexican lasagna! And for one…whoa, I will have to retrain my brain…it thinks lasagna should be made in a 13×9 pan and serve 6, er, I mean 12!
We both posted lasagna dishes today! Yum! I often do the ramekin thing as well, if it’s just me, or I want to make a smaller version of a recipe.
I love lasagna, too! But I always make a big batch, cut it into serving pieces, and store them in one of those microwaveable containers and stock it into my fridge. So then I can have lasagna anytime I want. Even at the middle of the night, lol!