Simple Way to Make Ultimate Lasagna Casserole

Lasagna Casserole
Lasagna Casserole

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, lasagna casserole. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Lasagna Casserole is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Lasagna Casserole is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

This has all of the same elements of a classic lasagna recipe - meat sauce, cheese sauce and pasta plus more cheese of course, but the process couldn't be easier. This recipe from an e-cookbook called "Casserole Crazy" This recipe turned out really well. I will be making this again as it takes a lot less time than. This EASY lasagna casserole recipe is cheesy and oh so yummy!

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook lasagna casserole using 21 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

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

In the mood for lasagna but not the work-try this. Serve with a salad and garlic bread. 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!

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!

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! Top lasagna casserole recipes and other great tasting recipes with a healthy slant from SparkRecipes.com. Spaghetti Squash Lasagna with Meat Casserole. During a recent grocery trip to ALDI, I picked up a spaghetti squash.

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