Cabbage Lasagna In A Crock Pot Oven Or Stovetop Recipes

Steps:

• In a large skillet over medium heat cook the ground beef, onion, and garlic until brown. Add the tomato sauce, tomato paste, salt, and oregano and stir until well incorporated. Cook until heated through.
• In a large bowl mix together the cottage cheese, grated Parmesan cheese, and shredded mozzarella cheese.
• Spoon a layer of the meat mixture onto the bottom of the slow cooker. Add a double layer of the uncooked lasagna noodles. Break to fit noodles into slow cooker. Top noodles with a portion of the cheese mixture. Repeat the layering of sauce, noodles, and cheese until all the ingredients are used.
• Cover, and cook on LOW setting for 4 to 6 hours.

Steps:

• Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir ground beef, onion, and garlic in the hot skillet until meat is browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes. Drain and discard grease. Add carrots and mushrooms. Add tomatoes and break up using a fork. Add basil, sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, thyme, and nutmeg. Reduce heat and simmer meat sauce for 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, bring a large pot of water to a boil. Immerse cabbage in the boiling water and carefully break off leaves. Cook until leaves are limp, about 3 minutes. Drain.
• Combine cottage cheese, 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese, parsley, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, and oregano in a bowl and set aside.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Coat a 9x13-inch baking pan with cooking spray and place a layer of cooked cabbage leaves flat in the bottom.
• Reserve 1/4 cup of meat sauce. Layer 1/2 the remaining sauce on top of the cabbage leaves in the baking pan. Layer 1/2 the cottage cheese mixture followed by 1/2 the mozzarella cheese. Add a second layer of cabbage leaves, followed by remaining 1/2 of meat sauce, remaining cottage cheese mixture, and mozzarella cheese. Sprinkle reserved 1/4 cup meat sauce on top and finish with 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes. Remove from the oven and let sit 15 minutes before slicing.

Steps:

• In a saucepan, combine tomato sauce, ketchup and sugar. Mix well to dissolve sugar and set aside.
• In a large skillet with oil spray, brown ground beef and remove. In the same skillet brown Italian sausage crumbled until brown.
• Mix browned sausage with the browned ground beef and add chopped onion, carrot, green bell pepper, garlic powder, oregano, (celery seeds), salt and pepper.
• Simmer the meat sauce for about 10 minutes, or until vegetables are cooked but crispy tender.
• Then add the prepared tomato sauce to the cooked meats and vegetables and mix well.
• Combine the cottage cheese (or Ricotta cheese) with the beaten egg and set aside.
• Spoon some of the meat sauce into bottom of crock pot (or slow cooker).
• Layer in this order: sliced cabbage, meat sauce, cottage cheese (or Ricotta).
• Repeat layers until all is used up, ending with mozzarella cheese on top.
• Cover and cook on Low heat setting for about 1 hour, or until cabbage is soft, but do not overcooked.
• NOTE: This cabbage lasagna can also be cook on the stovetop in a Dutch oven, or bake in the oven at 350ºF. for about 30 minutes, or until cabbage is tender, but not overcooked.

Steps:

• Slice cabbage head in half. Slice long strips about 1/4inch wide.
• steam until just tender (~7 minutes) and set aside.
• Brown Meat, add spices.
• Add onions to meat and sautee.
• Add tomato sauce to meat and set aside.
• Mix ricotta, eggs, and herbs.
• Grease 2 Qt baking dish.
• Heat oven to 350.
• Layer Cabbage, then meat/tomato sauce, then ricotta. repeat.
• Cover and Bake 45 minutes at 350.
• Uncover, put cheese on top, back 10 minutes or until cheese is browned.
• Let rest 10 minutes before serving.