Recipe: Tasty Lasagna

Lasagna. Lasagne are a type of wide, flat pasta, possibly one of the oldest types of pasta. Lasagne, or the singular lasagna, is also an Italian dish made of stacked layers of this flat pasta alternating with. Recipes and tips for terrific lasagna.

Lasagna I've been making lasagna for a long time, and there are quite a few variables to play with. We've got lasagne recipes to suit all tastes: Mary Berry's lasagna al forno recipe is the classic full-length version but she's also got a great quick lasagne recipe when you're short of time. Your ingredient options when making lasagna are virtually endless. You can have Lasagna using 20 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Lasagna

  1. Prepare of # ground beef.
  2. Prepare of # pork (or sweet sausage).
  3. Prepare of onion, minced.
  4. You need of garlic, crushed.
  5. Prepare of can crushed tomatoes.
  6. You need of can tomato sauce.
  7. Prepare of can tomato paste.
  8. You need of water, slightly less.
  9. It's of white sugar.
  10. It's of dried basil.
  11. It's of italian seasoning.
  12. Prepare of salt, divided.
  13. Prepare of black pepper.
  14. You need of fresh parsley, chopped (4 tsp dried).
  15. It's of lasagna noodles.
  16. Prepare of ricotta cheese.
  17. It's of egg.
  18. It's of mozzarella cheese, shredded.
  19. You need of parmesan cheese, grated.
  20. You need of Crushed red pepper flakes, optional.

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Lasagna instructions

  1. 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..
  2. 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..
  3. Preheat oven to 375°..
  4. 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..
  5. Bake for 25 minutes. Remove the foil and bake an additional 25 minutes. Cool for 15-20 minutes before cutting into your lasagna..
  6. I had an 8oz roll of mozzarella cheese on hand, so I sliced it and put it on the cheese layers..

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"). Others argue the Italian lasagna originally derived from the Arabic (Semitic) lawzinaj ("almond cake"). The idea for this sausage lasagna recipe comes from my mother-in-law, who always makes it for my three boys on special holidays. Sausage Lasagna Recipe photo by Taste of Home. For everybody that loves to cook lasagna at home!