Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, lasagna casserole. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
To use, partially thaw in refrigerator overnight. How to make Quick and Easy Lasagna Casserole: Brown ground beef and onion until no longer pink. While the meat is cooking, boil the noodles according to package directions until al dente.
Lasagna Casserole is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Lasagna Casserole is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have lasagna casserole using 21 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
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
- Get Sauce
- Make ready 2 lbs ground meat, personally we like 1/2 beef and 1/2 venison. You could use pork, turkey, sausage, whatever
- Prepare 1-2 tbsp olive oil, if your meat lacks fat
- Take 1/2 large onion, diced
- Take 3-4 cloves minced garlic
- Get to taste Salt and pepper
- Make ready 1 tbsp dried basil, oregano, and parsley
- Get 44 oz jar of pasta sauce, and a little water to rinse out the jar
- Take 6 oz can of tomato paste (optional for more intense tomato flavor)
- Make ready 1 tbsp cooking sherry
- Make ready 1-2 tbsp red wine vinegar (cuts the sweetness)
- Take Pinch sugar to bring flavors together
- Make ready Cheese filling layer
- Take 24 oz cottage cheese or ricotta (full fat tastes best)
- Prepare 2 eggs
- Make ready 2 tbsp parsley
- Make ready 1/2 tsp pepper (use slightly more if coarse ground)
- Get 1/2 cup grated parmesan
- Make ready 8 oz shredded Mozzarella cheese
Place under broiler just to melt cheese (you may skip this step and add all the mozzarella w/cheese mix if you do not want to place under broiler). Serve with a salad and garlic bread. This easy lasagna pasta bake has all the same elements of a classic lasagna - meat sauce, cheese sauce and penne pasta plus more cheese of course, but the process is so easy! Everything is combined in a casserole dish (no layering required) and it bakes way faster!
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!
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! Ingredients Need to Make Lasagna Casserole. ground pork sausage; onion chopped; garlic; pasta sauce; salt; pepper; mafalda pasta; eggs; Mozzarella cheese; cottage cheese; Parmesan cheese; dried parsley flakes; How to Make Lasagna Casserole. In a large skillet brown sausage and onion. In a large skillet cook sausage, onion, sweet pepper, and garlic until sausage is no longer pink; drain fat.
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