Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, lasagna casserole. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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Lasagna Casserole is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Lasagna Casserole is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lasagna casserole using 21 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Lasagna Casserole:
- Take 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
- Prepare 2 cups or so Mozzarella cheese for topping
- Make ready Sauce
- Prepare 2 lbs ground meat, personally we like 1/2 beef and 1/2 venison. You could use pork, turkey, sausage, whatever
- Make ready 1-2 tbsp olive oil, if your meat lacks fat
- Prepare 1/2 large onion, diced
- Make ready 3-4 cloves minced garlic
- Get to taste Salt and pepper
- Take 1 tbsp dried basil, oregano, and parsley
- Prepare 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)
- Prepare Pinch sugar to bring flavors together
- Take Cheese filling layer
- Prepare 24 oz cottage cheese or ricotta (full fat tastes best)
- Get 2 eggs
- Take 2 tbsp parsley
- Prepare 1/2 tsp pepper (use slightly more if coarse ground)
- Make ready 1/2 cup grated parmesan
- Make ready 8 oz shredded Mozzarella cheese
Freeze this easy lasagna bake for a quick. This dish fares very well when frozen. Follow the directions as written but after adding the final beef and pasta layer, cover the baking dish tightly with heavy duty foil, crimping the edges tightly, and. Cook meat - season to taste, drain and add spaghetti sauce to meat.
Instructions 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!
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) and this lasagna recipe bakes way faster! 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! I have only made a traditional, layered lasagna once in my life.
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