Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, lasagna. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
The ultimate comfort food lasagna, with layers of rich homemade meat sauce, creamy béchamel sauce , noodles , cheese and fresh mozzarella. Recipes and tips for terrific lasagna. Get traditional Italian versions and vegetarian lasagna recipes.
Lasagna is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Lasagna is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lasagna using 20 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Lasagna:
- Make ready 1 # ground beef
- Prepare 1 # pork (or sweet sausage)
- Make ready 1/2 C onion, minced
- Prepare 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- Get 1 (28 oz) can crushed tomatoes
- Make ready 1 (14 oz) can tomato sauce
- Get 2 (6 oz) can tomato paste
- Take 1/4 C water, slightly less
- Get 2 T white sugar
- Take 1 1/2 tsp dried basil
- Prepare 1 tsp italian seasoning
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp salt, divided
- Get 1/4 tsp black pepper
- Prepare 4 T fresh parsley, chopped (4 tsp dried)
- Take 12 lasagna noodles
- Prepare 16 oz ricotta cheese
- Take 1 egg
- Make ready 3 C mozzarella cheese, shredded
- Get 3/4 C parmesan cheese, grated
- Make ready Crushed red pepper flakes, optional
Classic Lasagna is great for feeding a crowd, and also freezes well for new mom meals and quick thaw dinners. I've been making lasagna for a long time, and there are quite a few variables to play with. Lasagna Roll Ups - Lasagna in a single serving form, no more messy sloppy layered squares! From Italian lasagna (and its plural lasagne), possibly from Vulgar Latin *lasania, from Latin lasanum ("cooking pot"), from Ancient Greek λάσανον (lásanon, "trivet or stand for a pot").
Instructions to make Lasagna:
- 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 (2 tsp dried). Add the red pepper flakes if using. Simmer, covered, for 1 1/2 hours. Stir occasionally.
- 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 (2 tsp dried)parsley and 1/2 tsp salt.
- Preheat oven to 375°.
- 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.
- Bake for 25 minutes. Remove the foil and bake an additional 25 minutes. Cool for 15-20 minutes before cutting into your lasagna.
- I had an 8oz roll of mozzarella cheese on hand, so I sliced it and put it on the cheese layers.
Others argue the Italian lasagna originally derived from the Arabic لَوْزِينَج (lawzīnaj, "almond cake"). For everybody that loves to cook lasagna at home! Lasagna is both a type of noodle and a dish made with that noodle; when pluralized, lasagna noodles are known as "lasagne". Grated Parmesan cheese is often added to lasagnas. Your ingredient options when making lasagna are virtually endless.
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