Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, lasagna casserole. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
This has all of the same elements of a classic lasagna recipe - meat sauce, cheese sauce and pasta plus more cheese of course, but the process couldn't be easier. Lasagna Casserole has all the elements of the traditional lasagna. It has the noodles, the meat, the cheese, and the sauce but the process is quick and easy!
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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook lasagna casserole using 21 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Lasagna Casserole:
- Make ready 16 oz uncooked pasta, shape is your choice. I use elbow mac, rotini, or penne. If you can find mini lasagna noodles go for it, bow tie works good too
- Take 2 cups or so Mozzarella cheese for topping
- Take Sauce
- Make ready 2 lbs ground meat, personally we like 1/2 beef and 1/2 venison. You could use pork, turkey, sausage, whatever
- Take 1-2 tbsp olive oil, if your meat lacks fat
- Make ready 1/2 large onion, diced
- Make ready 3-4 cloves minced garlic
- Prepare to taste Salt and pepper
- Prepare 1 tbsp dried basil, oregano, and parsley
- Get 44 oz jar of pasta sauce, and a little water to rinse out the jar
- Make ready 6 oz can of tomato paste (optional for more intense tomato flavor)
- Get 1 tbsp cooking sherry
- Make ready 1-2 tbsp red wine vinegar (cuts the sweetness)
- Make ready Pinch sugar to bring flavors together
- Take Cheese filling layer
- Take 24 oz cottage cheese or ricotta (full fat tastes best)
- Get 2 eggs
- Take 2 tbsp parsley
- Get 1/2 tsp pepper (use slightly more if coarse ground)
- Get 1/2 cup grated parmesan
- Make ready 8 oz shredded Mozzarella cheese
I will be making this again as it takes a lot less time than. In the mood for lasagna but not the work-try this. Serve with a salad and garlic bread. Your family will love this lasagna casserole, full of great lasagna flavor with less work!
Steps to make Lasagna Casserole:
- Bring large pot of water to boil, salt water and cook noodles to al dente. Drain and set aside.
- Brown meat, and as meat is getting close to done add in onion, garlic, salt and pepper. Cook until onions are getting translucent, and add herbs (oregano, parsley, and basil). Then add pasta sauce and tomato paste if using. Stir well together, add the vinegar and sherry. Taste and adjust seasonings as needed, add the sugar, then let simmer together for an hour. Watch bottom of pan that it doesn't scorch.
- Heat oven to 375. Put your cheese and two eggs into a bowl, beat together until smooth (important for if you use cottage cheese instead of ricotta, helps smooth out out. Cottage cheese also spreads easier during assembly). Stir in pepper, parsley, and parmesan. Finally mix in Mozzarella cheese.
- Once all your components are assembled, spray a 11x16 casserole pan with cooking spray. You will assemble starting with 1/3 of the noodles, 1/3 of the sauce, and 1/2 of cheese mixture. Repeat the layers, and end with last third of noodles topped with sauce. Finally spread 2 cups of Mozzarella cheese over top of the casserole.
- Cover with foil, bake for 40 minutes. Remove foil and bake for another 15 minutes, if you want the cheese on top browned and slightly more crispy put under the broiler for a hot minute. Allow to cool for 10 minutes to set up before dishing up. Feed to hungry children and husband!
Freeze the unbaked casserole in a disposable foil pan, or line your baking dish with foil. This easy Lasagna Casserole has all the flavor of the classic dish but without all the work! This delicious and easy recipe for Lasagna Casserole. Like traditional lasagna, this casserole also freezes well. Cool the baked casserole, wrap either the whole casserole or individual servings in plastic and foil, then freeze for up to three months.
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