Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, lasagna casserole. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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Lasagna Casserole is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Lasagna Casserole is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have lasagna casserole using 21 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Lasagna Casserole:
- Take 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
- Get or so Mozzarella cheese for topping
- Take Sauce
- Take ground meat, personally we like 1/2 beef and 1/2 venison. You could use pork, turkey, sausage, whatever
- Take olive oil, if your meat lacks fat
- Make ready large onion, diced
- Prepare minced garlic
- Take Salt and pepper
- Take dried basil, oregano, and parsley
- Make ready jar of pasta sauce, and a little water to rinse out the jar
- Get can of tomato paste (optional for more intense tomato flavor)
- Make ready cooking sherry
- Make ready red wine vinegar (cuts the sweetness)
- Take sugar to bring flavors together
- Prepare Cheese filling layer
- Make ready cottage cheese or ricotta (full fat tastes best)
- Make ready eggs
- Make ready parsley
- Take pepper (use slightly more if coarse ground)
- Prepare grated parmesan
- Take 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:
- 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!
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