What’s for dinner? Give your midweek family meals a healthy boost with these nutritional recipes

Boost the nutritional value of midweek family meals with these fruit- and veggie-loaded recipes

Lazy lasagne

YOU WILL NEED

½ tbsp oil 1 onion 2 garlic cloves, crushed 2 celery sticks, finely diced 1 large carrot, finely diced 500g beef mince (or veggie equivalent) 400g tin chopped tomatoes 450ml beef stock 150ml red wine or more stock 2 tbsp tomato purée

1 tsp dried oregano 200g dried lasagne sheets 100g crème fraîche 25g grated Parmesan 50 grated Cheddar cheese

DIRECTIONS

■ Heat the oil in a large pan or casserole dish. Add the onion, garlic, celery and carrots and fry for 2-3 minutes on a medium heat.

■ Add the beef mince and fry for another few minutes until the mince has browned. Add the chopped tomatoes, beef stock, red wine (if using), tomato purée and oregano.

■ Bring the mixture to the boil and then add the lasagne sheets, breaking each into 4 or 5 pieces as you add them in. Simmer on a low heat for around 15 minutes, stirring regularly to ensure that the lasagne sheets don’t stick together in the pan.

■ Mix the crème fraîche, Parmesan and Cheddar together in a bowl and then add to the top of the lasagne in 7 or 8 spoonfuls.

■ Cook for another 2-3 minutes to allow the cheese mixture to heat through and then serve.

Lasagne and Fish and chip pie recipes and images courtesy of We’re Hungry! by Ciara Attwell, out now in hardback and eBook, £16.99 (Lagom) PREPARATION TIME 10 minutes COOKING TIME 25 minutes SERVES 4