Steps to Make Super Quick Homemade Lasagna

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, lasagna. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Lasagna is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Lasagna is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lasagna using 20 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Lasagna:

1. Make ready 1 # ground beef
2. Prepare 1 # pork (or sweet sausage)
3. Take 1/2 C onion, minced
4. Make ready 2 cloves garlic, crushed
5. Take 1 (28 oz) can crushed tomatoes
6. Make ready 1 (14 oz) can tomato sauce
7. Get 2 (6 oz) can tomato paste
8. Take 1/4 C water, slightly less
9. Get 2 T white sugar
10. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp dried basil
11. Make ready 1 tsp italian seasoning
12. Take 1 1/2 tsp salt, divided
13. Take 1/4 tsp black pepper
14. Prepare 4 T fresh parsley, chopped (4 tsp dried)
15. Make ready 12 lasagna noodles
16. Take 16 oz ricotta cheese
17. Get 1 egg
18. Get 3 C mozzarella cheese, shredded
19. Take 3/4 C parmesan cheese, grated
20. Prepare Crushed red pepper flakes, optional

Instructions to make Lasagna:

1. In a Dutch oven, cook beef, pork, onion, and garlic over medium heat until browned. Stir in the crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, tomato sauce and water. Add the sugar, basil, Italian seasoning, 1 tsp salt, pepper and 2T parsley (2 tsp dried). Add the red pepper flakes if using. Simmer, covered, for 1 1/2 hours. Stir occasionally.
2. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and cook the noodles for 10 minutes. Drain and rinse with cold water. In a small bowl, mix the ricotta cheese, egg, 2T parsley (2 tsp dried) and 1/2 tsp salt.
3. Preheat oven to 375°.
4. Spray a 13"x9" baking dish with cooking spray. Spread 1 1/2C of meat sauce on the bottom. Put a single layer of noodles over the meat sauce. Spread with 1/2 of the cheese mixture. Top with 1C of mozzarella cheese. Sprinkle with some of the parmesan cheese. Repeat layers 2 times and the top will be the cheeses. Cover with sprayed foil to prevent the cheese sticking to it.
5. Bake for 25 minutes. Remove the foil and bake an additional 25 minutes. Cool for 15-20 minutes before cutting into your lasagna.
6. I had an 8oz roll of mozzarella cheese on hand, so I sliced it and put it on the cheese layers.

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