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Delicious, nutritious recipes with the benefits of Ensure

We all know that a healthy, balanced diet is vital for staying healthy. As we get older, we may not be able to meet our daily nutritional requirements with our usual diet.

This is when adding Ensure into meals can be of great value.

Ensure is scientifically formulated for people needing a nutritional boost to their normal diet, which may be inadequate for their body’s needs due to age, illness or a chronic condition. Ensure provides energy, protein and a wide range of minerals and vitamins essential for health.

Below we’ve put together a range of great tasting recipes which will assist you in preparing nourishing soups, meals, snacks and desserts with the added benefits of Ensure to help increase your nutritional intake.You can indulge in some of the foods you love and know you are getting the vitamins and minerals you need every day. A PDF version of our recipe book is also available for easy download and printing.

Enjoy!

Pumpkin and Lental Lasagne

Lasagne

Serves: 4

 

Ingredients:

  • 5 scoops Ensure Vanilla Powder
  • ½ onion, diced
  • 1 garlic clove, crushed
  • 400g tinned lentils
  • 1 tin of canned diced tomatoes
  • ½ cup grated tasty cheese
  • 250g ricotta cheese
  • ½ teaspoon nutmeg
  • 2 Tablespoons chopped parsley
  • 30g fresh spinach
  • 200g pumpkin, diced
  • 150g fresh lasagne sheets
  • 1 Tablespoon vegetable oil
  • 1 Tablespoon finely grated parmesan cheese

Method:

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C.
  2. Bake pumpkin for 15 minutes or until tender.
  3. Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Cook onion until lightly golden.  Add garlic and cook for 1 minute. Add lentils and tinned tomatoes and stir. Cover and bring to the boil and cook for 1 minute. Remove from heat and set aside.
  4. Add Ensure Powder to tomato and lentil mix.
  5. Add ricotta, parsley and nutmeg and stir until well combined.
  6. Line base of ovenproof dish with layer of lasagne sheets. Spread tomato and lentil mix and top with fresh spinach and pumpkin. Top with another layer of lasagne sheets.
  7. Add ricotta mix and top with a layer of lasagne sheets.
  8. Spread over remaining tomato and lentil mix and top with remaining spinach and pumpkin and lasagne sheets. Sprinkle with grated cheese and parmesan cheese.
  9. Bake for 40 minutes (20 minutes covered and 20 minutes uncovered). Serve with garden salad.

Nutrition content per serve:

Energy: 2135kJ
Protein: 23.4g
Fat: 30.5g
Saturated fat: 17.2g
Carbohydrate: 32.3g
Sugars: 13.2g
Fibre: 8.2g
Sodium: 456mg

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