Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Easy Lasagna

I started making dinner tonight with something else in mind....but halfway through browning up the meat and cooking some noodles I realized "huh, how bout some lasagna."  Made this recipe up off the top of my head with some things I had in the fridge.  Easy and Yummy!


Ingredients:
1 lb ground beef
1 1/2 Jars spaghetti sauce
1 (15ounce) Tub ricotta cheese
1 Egg
2 - 2 1/2 Cups shredded cheese (I used mozzarella)
1/2 Tbsp italian seasoning
12 Lasagna noodles

Directions:
*Cook your meat in a pan on the stove.  Drain grease out when done.

*Cook your lasagna noodles in a big pot of water until almost done.

*Empty your meat into a large bowl.  Add your ricotta cheese, egg, and 2 cups of shredded cheese into the meat.  Stir well.  Add half a cup or so of spaghetti sauce to the meat mixture.  Stir well.


*Take two paper towels and put them onto the counter on top of one another.

*When the noodles are done, empty the boiling water out, then cool them off with cold water to lower the temperature to a temperature that is easy to pick the noodles up with your hands.

*Put a noodle onto the paper towel and dry it off.

*Spray a 9x13 dish with baking spray.  Pour a small bit of spaghetti sauce into the bottom so the noodles don't stick.

*Move the dried noodle to the dish.  Put another two dried noodle beside it.

*Pour 1/3 of the meat mixture over the noodles and move it around to cover all of the noodles.


*Dry off 3 more noodles and layer them on top of the meat mixture.

*Repeat the sauce step with another 1/3 of the sauce.

*Noodles, then remaining meat mixture, then 3 more noodles.

*Pour the remaining spaghetti sauce onto the top of the noodles.  Cover with shredded cheese.


*Cover the lasagna with aluminum foil.

*Bake at 375*F for 45 minutes.  Remove the foil for the last 10 of those minutes.

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