Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, lasagna casserole. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Lasagna Casserole is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Lasagna Casserole is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have lasagna casserole using 21 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Lasagna Casserole:
- Make ready 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
- Take or so Mozzarella cheese for topping
- Make ready Sauce
- Prepare ground meat, personally we like 1/2 beef and 1/2 venison. You could use pork, turkey, sausage, whatever
- Take olive oil, if your meat lacks fat
- Prepare large onion, diced
- Make ready minced garlic
- Prepare Salt and pepper
- Make ready dried basil, oregano, and parsley
- Prepare jar of pasta sauce, and a little water to rinse out the jar
- Get can of tomato paste (optional for more intense tomato flavor)
- Make ready cooking sherry
- Prepare red wine vinegar (cuts the sweetness)
- Get sugar to bring flavors together
- Take Cheese filling layer
- Get cottage cheese or ricotta (full fat tastes best)
- Take eggs
- Take parsley
- Make ready pepper (use slightly more if coarse ground)
- Prepare grated parmesan
- Prepare shredded Mozzarella cheese
Steps 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!
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