Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, lasagna casserole. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Lasagna Casserole is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Lasagna Casserole is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
Top with beef mixture and spaghetti sauce (dish will be full). 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 with diced tomatoes, browned ground beef, and Italian seasoning.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lasagna casserole using 21 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook 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
- Prepare 2 cups or so Mozzarella cheese for topping
- Get Sauce
- Get 2 lbs ground meat, personally we like 1/2 beef and 1/2 venison. You could use pork, turkey, sausage, whatever
- Get 1-2 tbsp olive oil, if your meat lacks fat
- Get 1/2 large onion, diced
- Get 3-4 cloves minced garlic
- Get to taste Salt and pepper
- Make ready 1 tbsp dried basil, oregano, and parsley
- Prepare 44 oz jar of pasta sauce, and a little water to rinse out the jar
- Make ready 6 oz can of tomato paste (optional for more intense tomato flavor)
- Take 1 tbsp cooking sherry
- Make ready 1-2 tbsp red wine vinegar (cuts the sweetness)
- Make ready Pinch sugar to bring flavors together
- Make ready Cheese filling layer
- Take 24 oz cottage cheese or ricotta (full fat tastes best)
- Make ready 2 eggs
- Prepare 2 tbsp parsley
- Make ready 1/2 tsp pepper (use slightly more if coarse ground)
- Take 1/2 cup grated parmesan
- Make ready 8 oz shredded Mozzarella cheese
This tasty pasta casserole makes use of pantry staples and unlike traditional lasagna, it's really quick to put together. Add the ricotta cheese and the sauce, and toss to coat. Transfer pasta to a casserole dish and top with Parmigiano Reggiano cheese. Toss together a green salad while the casserole's in the oven to serve alongside.
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!
Transfer pasta to a casserole dish and top with Parmigiano Reggiano cheese. Toss together a green salad while the casserole's in the oven to serve alongside. Top with beef mixture and spaghetti sauce (dish will be VERY full). The ultimate comfort food, "casserole" refers to both a type of food and the dish that it is baked in. In a Dutch oven, cook sausage, ground beef, onion, and garlic over medium heat until well browned.
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