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Baked Brie with Roast Vegetables

Warm, melty baked brie served with roasted vegetables and candied garlic will make a great addition to your holiday spread!

I’m starting to think the Fall is a huge lie. We’re all enamored with the idea that the air is crisp and just cool enough to need a light jacket, and that the changing leaves are beautiful. Well, the leaves may be beautiful, but they’re already on the ground. Plus now that we turned the clocks back and its pitch black by 5pm, I can’t see them anyway. And light jackets aren’t nearly warm enough – I’ve already broken out my warm coats. And gloves. I’m not exaggerating when I say I saw snow flurries last weekend.

We may still have a month of “Fall” left, but if you ask me: it’s winter. Time for soup and stew. Roasts. Hot cocoa. And cheese. Sure, I eat my fair share of cheese the rest of the year too, but once the cold weather rolls in? Watch out.

Especially when said cheese is a warm, melty baked brie served with piles of roasted vegetables and candied garlic cloves. This one never even made it to the table – I sat right down in front of my little photography desk and dug right in. Yum!

Since I ditched the traditional puff pastry (who needs it?), I served this with some Walker’s Oatcakes. I hadn’t heard of these before receiving a box in my last Walker’s shipment and I was really excited to give them a try. Like Walker’s cookies, these crackers are made with really simple ingredients: oatmeal, vegetable oil, skim milk solids, salt, and baking soda. They looks like they’d be crispy (like hard tack) but they’re really tender and crumbly, with a neutral, slightly earthy flavor that pairs really well with slightly sweet items like the candied garlic and red peppers.

This baked brie would be a great holiday appetizer or even just a fun way to spend a cozy Friday night in!

Baked Brie with Roast Vegetables

Small cast iron pans are perfect for baking and serving this brie. Because they hold heat so well, the brie will stay warm and melty for a while… just be sure to use a pot holder!

Author: Lauren Keating

Serves: 4-6

Ingredients

  • 1 red bell pepper, cut into thick strips
  • 1 zucchini, cut into ¼-inch coins
  • 1 baby eggplant, cut into ¼-inch coins
  • ½ pound asparagus, trimmed
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
  • salt and pepper
  • 1 small (8 ounce) wheel brie
  • 1 head garlic, peeled
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 1 tablespoon brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons water

Preparation

  1. Heat oven to 350ºF.
  2. Place the brie in a small cast iron pan or similar heavy-duty, oven safe pan. Set aside.
  3. Toss the pepper, zucchini, eggplant, and asparagus with oil and vinegar; season with salt and pepper. Spread on a baking sheet. Tent the vegetables loosely with foil and roast the vegetables for 15 minutes. Transfer the brie to the oven and bake 15 minutes.
  4. Meanwhile, bring a small pan of water to a boil. Add the peeled garlic cloves and boil 5 minutes. drain. Add the butter to the pan and melt over medium heat. Stir in the brown sugar and water. Add the garlic cloves and cook, stirring frequently, until the garlic is soft and the caramel is thick and syrupy. Toss the garlic closed with the roasted vegetables (discard any remaining syrup).

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Disclosure: As an official Walkers Blogger Ambassador, I receive several shipments of cookies throughout the year for free. I was not compensated in any other way.

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CROCKPOT CHICKEN & VEGETABLE ALFREDO LASAGNA

 Summer officially began just a few weeks ago and already we’ve had more 100+ degree days than I can count. Days like this I just want to order dinner in! However, for the sake of not massacring our budget, I instead have been looking for some oven-less meals that feed the family healthy food.

I’ve seen several recipes for crockpot lasagna, but to be honest, most had mixed reviews. Not only that, but I wanted an Alfredo lasagna where I could add in some veggies from the garden. So after reading a ton of different recipes and comments, I came up with this easy recipe and oh my heavens~ it’s a winner!! It’s so delicious and the noodles and vegetables were cooked perfectly. It’s not dry and has wonderful flavor. It came together really quickly and I have a meal’s worth of leftovers, which is a bonus! My kids and husband were all raving about it, so it will certainly go into our normal rotation of meals.

Crock Pot Chicken & Vegetable Alfredo Lasagna
Serves 10-12 people
Recipe is made up of 3 parts, which you layer inside your crockpot:


Noodles & Veggies-

  • 1 9-oz box No Boil Lasagna Noodles {I used Barilla Flat Lasagna Noodles}
  • 8 oz sliced mushrooms
  • 1 zucchini, sliced thin
  • 1 yellow squash, sliced thin
  • 1 tomato, diced

Cheese Mixture-

  • 1 16-oz container cottage cheese or ricotta cheese
  • 1 cup mozzarella, divided in half {half goes on top of the lasagna}
  • 1 cup Parmesan cheese, divided in half {half goes on top of the lasagna}
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 1 tsp dried parsley
  • salt & pepper

Sauce mixture-

  • 1 15-oz jar Alfredo sauce {I used Bertolli}
  • 1 cup chicken broth
  • 1/2 tsp dried sage
  • 1 tsp Italian Seasoning
  • 2 tsp onion powder {I opted for powder over real onion because I worried the onion wouldn’t have enough time in the crockpot to sufficiently cook/ soften and give off flavor.}
  • 2 cups diced, cooked chicken {I used 1/2 a rotisserie chicken}

Slice vegetables and dice chicken. Combine ingredients for both the sauce mixture and cheese mixture. Arrange everything close to your crock pot much like I have in the picture below.

To layer your lasagna, the noodles will be divided into 3 portions. You can set them into 3 groups now to make it easier when putting it all together. The sauce mixture will also be divided into thirds. The cheese mixture will just be divided in half, as will your vegetables. It’s okay to overlap the noodles- just try and cover as much as the crockpot as you can. I usually layed out a few, then broke others into pieces to fill in the gaps. 

Here is how I layered my lasagna: {start at the bottom, since that’s what will go in first!}

TOP
Remaining 1/3 of sauce mixture
remaining 1/3 noodles
remaining 1/2 of cheese mixture
remaining 1/2 of vegetables
1/3 sauce mixture
1/3 noodles
1/2 vegetables
1/2 cheese mixture
1/3 noodles 
1/3 Sauce mixture
BOTTOM

Once you have everything layered in your crockpot, turn the heat onto low, put the lid on and cook it for 3 hours.

Once 3 hours have passed, take a fork and make sure the top layer of noodles are all submerged in the dish and they aren’t drying out. {Push it down a little if you need to.} Add the remaining 1/2 cup of mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses to the top of the lasagna. Replace lid and continue cooking for another 30 minutes.

Turn crockpot off and let sit for about 20 minutes or so before serving. {This allows the lasagna to soak up more liquid and helps the pieces hold together better. You can see also that I was able to cut and serve the portions we needed for dinner and the rest of the lasagna held together really well inside the crockpot!

Cut and serve- ENJOY!

I was prepared for a not-so-pretty lasagna, but was actually amazed at how well it held together. Here are 2 large pieces leftover that I plan to serve for another meal.

 
 

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