Lasagna Casserole
Lasagna Casserole

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, lasagna casserole. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Lasagna Casserole is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Lasagna Casserole is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must 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:
  1. Make ready 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
  2. Get or so Mozzarella cheese for topping
  3. Take Sauce
  4. Take ground meat, personally we like 1/2 beef and 1/2 venison. You could use pork, turkey, sausage, whatever
  5. Prepare olive oil, if your meat lacks fat
  6. Prepare large onion, diced
  7. Get minced garlic
  8. Get Salt and pepper
  9. Take dried basil, oregano, and parsley
  10. Get jar of pasta sauce, and a little water to rinse out the jar
  11. Take can of tomato paste (optional for more intense tomato flavor)
  12. Make ready cooking sherry
  13. Take red wine vinegar (cuts the sweetness)
  14. Prepare sugar to bring flavors together
  15. Get Cheese filling layer
  16. Get cottage cheese or ricotta (full fat tastes best)
  17. Get eggs
  18. Prepare parsley
  19. Prepare pepper (use slightly more if coarse ground)
  20. Take grated parmesan
  21. Make ready shredded Mozzarella cheese

Serve with a salad and garlic bread. Your family will love this lasagna casserole, full of great lasagna flavor with less work! This is an easy weeknight meal that's kid-friendly. Lasagna Casserole has all the elements of the traditional lasagna.

Steps to make Lasagna Casserole:
  1. Bring large pot of water to boil, salt water and cook noodles to al dente. Drain and set aside.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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!

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