Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, lasagna. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Lasagna is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Lasagna is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have lasagna using 20 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Lasagna:
- Get 1 # ground beef
- Take 1 # pork (or sweet sausage)
- Take 1/2 C onion, minced
- Get 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- Take 1 (28 oz) can crushed tomatoes
- Prepare 1 (14 oz) can tomato sauce
- Get 2 (6 oz) can tomato paste
- Prepare 1/4 C water, slightly less
- Take 2 T white sugar
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp dried basil
- Prepare 1 tsp italian seasoning
- Get 1 1/2 tsp salt, divided
- Take 1/4 tsp black pepper
- Get 4 T fresh parsley, chopped (4 tsp dried)
- Make ready 12 lasagna noodles
- Make ready 16 oz ricotta cheese
- Get 1 egg
- Get 3 C mozzarella cheese, shredded
- Prepare 3/4 C parmesan cheese, grated
- Get Crushed red pepper flakes, optional
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Steps to make Lasagna:
- In a Dutch oven, cook beef, pork, onion, and garlic over medium heat until browned. Stir in the crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, tomato sauce and water. Add the sugar, basil, Italian seasoning, 1 tsp salt, pepper and 2T (2 tsp dried). Add the red pepper flakes if using. Simmer, covered, for 1 1/2 hours. Stir occasionally.
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and cook the noodles for 10 minutes. Drain and rinse with cold water. In a small bowl, mix the ricotta cheese, egg, 2T (2 tsp dried)parsley and 1/2 tsp salt.
- Preheat oven to 375°.
- Spray a 13"x9" baking dish with cooking spray. Spread 1 1/2C of meat sauce on the bottom. Put a single layer of noodles over the meat sauce. Spread with 1/2 of the cheese mixture. Top with 1C of mozzarella cheese. Sprinkle with some of the parmesan cheese. Repeat layers 2 times and the top will be the cheeses. Cover with sprayed foil to prevent the cheese sticking to it.
- Bake for 25 minutes. Remove the foil and bake an additional 25 minutes. Cool for 15-20 minutes before cutting into your lasagna.
- I had an 8oz roll of mozzarella cheese on hand, so I sliced it and put it on the cheese layers.
You can even serve it with eggs for breakfast. This lasagna recipe is super simple to make, and so flavorful. It's perfect for potlucks and other The site may earn a commission on some products. It couldn't be easier to make. Pasta noodles piled high and layered full of three kinds of cheese to go along with the perfect blend of meaty and zesty, tomato pasta sauce all loaded with herbs.
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