Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Lasagna

My 7-year old son would eat this every night of the week if he could.  Lasagna is very popular in our house and makes it onto the "menu" about once every three weeks. I have tried cottage cheese instead of ricotta cheese to make it more lower fat, but it really doesn't taste the same. You can change the flavors of pasta sauce each time if you want.  My personal favorite flavor lately has been tomato/basil.  I buy the generic kind my grocery store sells, I can usually get a jar for about a buck on sale.  I also switch back and forth between using ground turkey and ground chuck each time I make it.
 
Ingredients:

1 ½ pounds ground turkey or ground chuck
9 uncooked lasagna noodles
26 -ounce jar pasta sauce (your choice of flavor)
8-ounce can tomato sauce
15 ounces ricotta cheese
8 ounces shredded mozzarella cheese

Directions: 

Brown ground turkey or ground chuck until no longer pink.  Drain the fat and remove from heat.  Cook lasagna noodles according to instructions on box.  Drain into colander and set aside.  Add pasta sauce and tomato sauce to meat mixture.   In a 9 x 13 inch baking pan take about ¼ of the sauce and cover the bottom of the pan.   Next put three of the noodles lengthwise. The next layer put a third of the ricotta and mozzarella cheeses. Repeat 2 more times ending with sauce.  Bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for 45 minutes.  Remove from oven and let sit 10-15 minutes. 



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