Lasagna

[live4christp1]

Need a good lasagna recipe.

Please post your favorite.

Thanks!

 

[laurie31]

Okay, this is the dish my DH married me for - lol, but it's a lot of work.

1/2 onion (white or yellow) diced
1 lb ground beef or chuck (or turkey, if you prefer)
1 can tomato sauce
1 cup water
2-3 Tablespoons fresh garlic (may substitute dried, but adjust amount)
2-3 Tablespoons dried oregano


12 ounces Ricotta cheese (I use part skim)
1 egg


1 pound of mozzarella, sliced (or use grated, if you prefer)

9-12 regular lasagna noodles (not the no-boil ones)

1/2 cup grated parmisan, if desired


Brown the ground beef, and drain. In same skillet, sautee the onion until clear. Add the cooked meat, the tomato sauce, and spices. Cook over low heat for 1-2 hours. Add more water if needed to get the consistency of the thick liquid.

(I actually have no idea how much of any spice I use - just keep tasting it until you like it. I sometimes use an Italian herb blend, too. I've been making this since I was a teen, and it's not written down anywhere. I just...make it.)

Mix together the egg and ricotta cheese. I actually use Egg Beaters. The egg just gives the cheese some body.

Slice the mozzarella, if not using pre-grated.

Preheat over to 425

cover the bottom of a 13x9 casserole dish with a layer of sauce. Top with uncooked noodles. (usually it takes 3 to make a row, but I sometimes use a larger dish, and it takes 4). Cover the noodles with the ricotta mixture, and top that with mozzarella. Then repeat, ending with sauce. Sprinkle top with grated parmisan cheese if desired. I divide my Ricotta mixture into thirds, so I can have an equal amount in each layer. I also divide my sauce into fourths, for the same reason.

Basically, you have: sauce - noodles - ricotta- mozzarella - sauce - noodles - ricotta - mozzarella - sauce - noodles - ricotta - mozzarella - sauce - parmisan

(I know. I am the only person on Earth who doesn't put the noodles on the bottom and end with a big cheese layer. But trust me on this!)

Bake for 45 minutes or until the noodles are tender.

(there should be enough liquid in your sauce to cook the noodles)

Enjoy!!

 

[look1angel]

I typically make a homemade lasagna & it takes a while, but my family, especially my step-daughter, love this real quick an easy recipe & I mean easy! Now I've added my own spices here n there along with LOTS of mozzarella cheese to dress it up a bit, just thought you'd like a different variation of it.

http://recipes.robbiehaf.com/B/558.htm

 

[KAMKIM]

1 pound of ground beef
2 big containers of ricotta cheese
2 eggs
1 package of precooked lasagna noodles
2 bags of mozarella cheese
2 jars of prego three cheese sauce
1/4 cup of milk
garlic salt
onion salt
Brown ground beef. Mix both containers of ricotta, 2 eggs, 1/4 cup of milk, 1 1/2 bags of mozarella - season with garlic salt and onion salt

Mix sauce with browned ground beef, leave some for the bottom of your pan and top of your lasagna.

Layer your noodles, then meat/sauce, then cheese that you mixed already, continue until your out of noodles - top with a little sauce and mozarella. Cover with alum. foil. Bake at 350 for 40mins.

 

[cristit14]

We have been using Paula Deen's . From Food Network, it is called Lotsa meat lasagna or something like that. It is really good.

 

[live4christp1]

Thanks everyone for the great recipes!!!!! Plan on making my dad some home cooked lasagna. He loved my mom's lasagna (well, we all did). I will have to make two pans though, one with ricotta and one without.....he says he doesn't like the "cottage cheese".....