Lasagna
CATEGORIES
INGREDIENTS
- Lasagna noodles (uncooked)
- 1 can tomato sauce
- 1.5 tsp Italian seasoning
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese
- Meat filling:
- 1.5 pounds ground beef
- 5 cloves garlic (minced or pressed)
- 2 tsp onion powder
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Red pepper flakes to taste
- 1 jar spaghetti sauce
- Cheese filling:
- 1 (24 oz) container cottage cheese
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese
- 1/3 cup Parmesan cheese
- 2 eggs (slightly beaten)
- 3 cloves garlic
- 3 tsp Penzey's Pasta Sprinkle (or Italian Seasoning)
- Salt and pepper to taste
DIRECTIONS
- Add ground beef, garlic, S&P, onion powder, and red pepper flakes to skillet. Cook over medium heat until the ground beef is cooked through. Remove from heat and stir in spaghetti sauce.
- While the ground beef is cooking add all the cheese filling ingredients to a medium bowl and mix to combine.
- Add the Italian seasoning into the 1 can of tomato sauce.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Lightly spray bottom of 9 x 13 casserole dish with non-stick cooking spray.
- Layer the ingredients:
- 1/2 can seasoned tomato sauce
- Layer of noodles
- 1/2 cheese mixture
- 1/2 meat sauce
- Layer of noodles
- 1 tbls seasoned tomato sauce over each noodle
- Remaining cheese mixture
- Meat sauce
- Noodles
- Remaining meat sauce and remaining seasoned tomato sauce
- Cover with foil and bake at 350 degrees for 55 minutes. Discard foil, add 1 cup mozzarella cheese to top and bake for 5 additional minutes (or until cheese is hot and bubbly). Let stand 10-15 minutes. Serve.
RECIPE BACKSTORY
This is the first time I have made Lasagna without pre-boiling the noodles. Oh my, what a life saver. I will never boil another lasagna noodle for as long as I shall live.
Anyway, I threw this together on Saturday night and let it sit in the fridge until Sunday when It came time to bake it.