Aunt Pats Lasagna Recipes

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, cook beef and onion over medium heat until meat is no longer pink. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer; drain. Stir in tomatoes, tomato paste, basil, oregano, pepper and bay leaf. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer 40-50 minutes or until thickened., Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350°. cook noodles according to package directions; drain. Discard bay leaf from meat sauce. Stir in olives., Spread a fourth of the sauce in a greased 13x9-in. baking dish. Top with three noodles and a third of the mozzarella and Parmesan cheese. Repeat layers. Top with remaining noodles, sauce and cheese. , Bake, uncovered, 35-40 minutes or until bubbly. Let stand 15 minutes before cutting.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Brown beef in 3 quart saucepan; drain, and add sauce and water; simmer about 10 minutes.
• Combine remaining ingredients, except lasagne, for filling.
• Pour about 1 cup sauce in bottom of 9X13 pan.
• Layer 3 uncooked lasagne noodles on top of sauce; top with about 1 1/2 cups sauce, and 1/2 of cheese filling.
• Repeat layers of noodles, sauce, and filling.
• Top with a layer of noodles and remaining sauce.
• Cover with foil and bake for 55-60 minutes.
• Remove foil; bake another 10 minutes.
• Allow to stand for 10 minutes, to make cutting easier.

Steps:

• For the Meatball Mix: Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• In a mixing bowl, combine all ingredients. Roll meatballs into desired size and bake in preheated oven for about 15 minutes or until golden brown. For the lasagna, instead of rolling into desired size, spread mix out evenly on a sheet pan and bake. Break up the meat for lasagna.
• For the Meat Sauce: In a stock pot (or large cooking vessel) brown the ground beef. Add the celery/carrot/onion mix and cook for about 2 minutes. Add the tomatoes and the seasonings. Let simmer for 2 hours.
• For Aunt Angie's Lasagna: Using a 1/2 hotel pan or medium to large baking dish, coat the bottom with a thin layer of meat sauce. Lay out 4 pieces of lasagna so they go up the side of the pan with an additional 3 to 4 inches hanging over the edge. Do the same in the other direction of the pan using pieces of pasta. Add another layer of meat sauce, followed by 1/2 of the meatball mix. Then top the meat with 1 pound of the ricotta cheese, 1 pound of mozzarella, and 1/4 cup of Romano. Add a layer of pasta and repeat to have 2 layers. Fold over the remaining pasta to cover the top. Top with meat sauce and place in preheated oven and bake until proper serving temperature is reached or top is golden brown.

Steps:

• Brown garlic, chicken, sausage, in hot olive oil.
• Stir in soup mix, water, tomatoe paste, sauce and spices.
• Cover and simmer 30 minutes.
• Cook lasagna noodles, drain and cool in cold water.
• Cover bottom of pan with meat sauce. Arrange noodles lengthwise in pan.
• Add cheese on top of meat sauce at each layer.
• Bake at 350 degrees, for 30 minutes.

Steps:

• In a large skillet brown ground beef, season to taste with salt, pepper and garlic powder.
• Add pasta sauce.
• In a large bowl soften cream cheese and mix with sour cream, cottage cheese, onion and bell pepper.
• Boil lasagna noodles according to package direction.
• Butter 13 X 9 baking dish.
• Layer noodles, cream cheese mixture, then pasta sauce mixture.
• Layer parmesan cheese then mozzarella cheese.
• Repeat layers ending with parmesan and mozzarella cheese.
• Bake 350 for 30-45 minutes until cheese is melted and bubbly.

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
• Mix all the pks of cheeses together in a large bowl an set aside.
• Boil both pk of lasagna noodles per directions, drain and set in cold water, (this helps them not to stick together), and leave in water until time for use.
• While noodles are boiling, combine ground beef and sausage in a large skillet , add seasonings and onion and cook until everything is brown.
• Drain grease add both jars of spaghetti sauce and sour cream and mix well. Put back on stove on medium low so flavor can soak into the meat.
• In a large deep dish place a layer of noodles, then add meat sauce, put a layer of pepperoni on top of meat sauce, then make a complete layer of cheese on top of that.
• Keep repeating step 6 until you fill the dish. On the very top layer after you add the last layer of cheese sprinkle graciously with bacon bits.
• Bake in the oven for about 30 - 45 minutes or until cheese is golden brown on top.

Steps:

• Cook Lasagna noodles in Salt and Water. Drain 1/2 water add Cold Water to stop cooking. Keep in water while layering. Layer in the following order. Meat Sauce Noodle Ricotta Mozzarella Meat Sauce Romano / Parm Cheese Repeat Ending in Sauce and Grated Romano Cheese. Bake @ 350 30 to 40 minutes If made ahead of time and frozen you need to take out of the freezer 2 hours before cooking. Keep foil on while cooking. It may take longer to cook. Let stand for 20 minutes covered with foil before serving.

Steps:

• Meat Sauce:.
• Brown and drain meat.
• Add all other meat sauce ingredients to pan with meat and simmer, uncovered until thick - about 45 minutes to an hour.
• Cook noodles. Drain and rinse.
• Cheese mixture:.
• Mix together all cheese mixture ingredients in large bowl.
• Note: If using 9x13 pan, makes 2 layers. If using 8x8 pan, makes 3 layers with left over ingredients. We like a thicker lasagna so I go for the smaller pan and then use left over noodles to make little "lasagna rolls.".
• Spread small amount of sauce in bottom of pan to help with sticking.
• Make first layer of noodles. Spread 1/2 (or 1/3) of cheese mixture over noodles. Top with just shy of 1/2 (or 1/3) of meat sauce spread over cheese. Then just shy of 1/2 (or 1/3) of mozzerella over meat.
• Repeat layers until you run out of cheese mixture or you reach the top of the pan.
• Layer one final layer of noodles, light layer of sauce and remaining mozzerella cheese.
• Bake at 375 degrees for 30 minutes. Let stand for 10 minutes.
• Can be frozen before or after baking.