Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, lasagna casserole. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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Healthy, Affordable & Easy to Clean Range. Freeze option: Sprinkle casserole with remaining mozzarella cheese. To use, partially thaw in refrigerator overnight. Now it's time to layer your lasagna casserole.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. 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:
- Get 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
- Take Sauce
- Take 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
- Prepare 3-4 cloves minced garlic
- Prepare to taste Salt and pepper
- Prepare 1 tbsp dried basil, oregano, and parsley
- Get 44 oz jar of pasta sauce, and a little water to rinse out the jar
- Get 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)
- Make ready 2 eggs
- Make ready 2 tbsp parsley
- Prepare 1⁄2 tsp pepper (use slightly more if coarse ground)
- Take 1⁄2 cup grated parmesan
- Take 8 oz shredded Mozzarella cheese
Empty into large casserole dish and sprinkle remaining mozzarella cheese on top. 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). 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.
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!
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. Mix crushed tomatoes, browned ground beef, and Italian seasoning, garlic and salt and pepper. 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!
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