Asian "Lasagna"

Jo Anna was very uncomfortable with this concept, but I can't think of a more clever name, so, quotes it is.

So, Asian Lasagna from Rachael Ray. I started by prepping all the ingredients so I chop chopped bok choy, shredded cheese, warmed up some milk, and threw an onion in the food processor.

Now, I have never worked with bok choy, but it was essentially celery stalks with lettuce leaves on top, so that was easy enough.

 

Once everything was prepped, I started with the butter and flour in the pan, whisking til it was pretty thick. Then I added the milk. (I did actually use whole milk...a lot of times I'll just use my skim, but I thought for a cream sauce in a potentially sketchy dish I'd better buy a baby whole milk) Here I am whisking and whisking until it boiled and got thick. Then off the heat, in with the cheese, salt, and pepper.

New pan, in goes a smidge of butter and the ground pork. Browned that up and set it aside.

 After I pulled the meat out I added the onion and bok choy stems and cooked them until they were soft. Then in went the leaves, the pork, and some lemon zest. I cooked this down just a bit and then came the interesting part.

 Turns out wonton wrappers are super easy to work with. Naturally I do not have an 8x8 baking dish (thought a brownie pan would be weird...) so I went for the oval. Did not have a ton of trouble making the wrappers fit, as you can see. I layered in sauce, wrappers, meat, repeat. (The recipe says to dip them in warm water before you layer, and that made a lot of sense, giving them the texture you would assume these things should have)

 There she is before the oven...

 And after.
So this dish was really pretty yummy. The wonton wrappers are way less fatty than lasagna noodles, although I am sure we made up for that in the cream sauce...but still, that's always nice. The only thing I would change next round would be less bok choy leaves. I don't like greens and these were a little too healthy tasting for me :) The stems were delicious with the onions, though, and the cheese sauce was awesome.
Most excellent day two of summer blogging if I do say so myself!