Lasagna My Way Recipes

Steps:

• In 13x9 pan, spoon a little of the sauce.
• Place 3 lasagna noodles on the sauce.
• Mix cottage cheese, egg, and parmesan cheese in a bowl.
• Spread 1/3 of this over noodles.
• Add 1/3 of the sauce.
• Sprinkle with 1 cup mozzarella.
• Now, add 3 more noodles, 1/3 more cottage cheese mixture, 1/3 more sauce.
• Add 1 cup more mozzarella cheese.
• One more time, do the layers.
• Bake in 350°F oven for about 1 hour.
• Top should be light brown and bubbly.

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, cook sausage, ground beef, onion, and garlic over medium heat until well browned. Stir in crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, tomato sauce, and water. Season with sugar, basil, fennel seeds, Italian seasoning, 1 teaspoon salt, pepper, and 2 tablespoons parsley. Simmer, covered, for about 1 1/2 hours, stirring occasionally.
• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook lasagna noodles in boiling water for 8 to 10 minutes. Drain noodles, and rinse with cold water. In a mixing bowl, combine ricotta cheese with egg, remaining parsley, and 1/2 teaspoon salt.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• To assemble, spread 1 1/2 cups of meat sauce in the bottom of a 9x13-inch baking dish. Arrange 6 noodles lengthwise over meat sauce. Spread with one half of the ricotta cheese mixture. Top with a third of mozzarella cheese slices. Spoon 1 1/2 cups meat sauce over mozzarella, and sprinkle with 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese. Repeat layers, and top with remaining mozzarella and Parmesan cheese. Cover with foil: to prevent sticking, either spray foil with cooking spray, or make sure the foil does not touch the cheese.
• Bake in preheated oven for 25 minutes. Remove foil, and bake an additional 25 minutes. Cool for 15 minutes before serving.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add noodles and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain and set aside.
• Place pork and beef in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Stir in tomato sauce, crushed tomatoes, parsley, garlic, oregano, onion, sugar, basil and salt. Simmer over medium-low heat for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• In a large bowl, combine cottage cheese, eggs, Parmesan cheese, parsley, salt and pepper.
• In a 9x13 inch baking dish, place 2 layers of noodles on the bottom of dish; layer 1/2 of the cheese mixture, 1/2 of the mozzarella cheese and 1/2 of the sauce; repeat layers.
• Cover with aluminum foil and bake in preheated oven for 30 to 40 minutes. Remove foil and bake for another 5 to 10 minutes; let stand for 10 minutes before cutting; serve.

Steps:

• Fry together ground beef and Italian sausage until no longer pink; drain.
• Add onion, celery and garlic; cook about 5 minutes.
• Add to meat mixture the remaining 8 ingredients; cook covered for 30-45 minutes, adding small amounts of water if necessary and stirring frequently. Mixture should be relatively thick. Remove from heat and stir in minced parsley.
• Preheat oven 350 degrees. Grease lasagna baking pan.
• Layer a small amount of meat sauce in bottom of baking pan (about 1 cup), topping with about 5 noodles, overlapping slightly. Top lasagna noodles with more sauce, several pieces of cream cheese and the 3 cheeses all equally divided between remaining layers. Repeat until sauce, noodles and cheese are used up.
• Cover baking pan with foil (can grease underside of foil, too) and bake 40 minutes; remove foil from pan and return to oven, baking an additional 10 minutes or until bubbly.
• Let stand 10 minutes before cutting.

Steps:

• Soak eggplant slices in a large bowl of lightly salted water for 30 minutes. Drain and pat dry with paper towels.
• Cook and stir ground beef in a skillet over medium heat until browned, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove from heat, drain and add spaghetti sauce.
• Preheat the oven's broiler and set the oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source.
• Whisk olive oil and Italian seasoning together in a bowl.
• Brush both sides of eggplant slices with the seasoned olive oil.
• Arrange eggplant slices on a baking sheet and place in preheated oven; broil until browned, 2 to 4 minutes on each side.
• Set oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Stir ricotta cheese, egg, and ½ Parmesan cheese together in a bowl.
• Spread a small amount of spaghetti sauce/beef mixture in the bottom of a casserole dish.
• Layer 1/3 of the eggplant slices on bottom of the dish.
• Layer 1/3 of the spaghetti sauce/beef mixture.
• Layer 1/3 of the ricotta mixture.
• Layer 1/3 of the mozzarella cheese.
• Repeat 2 more times, finishing with a layer of mozzarella cheese and then ½ cup Parmesan cheese.
• Bake in the preheated oven until sauce is bubbling and cheese is browned, about 30 - 40 minutes.
• Let cool for 10 minutes before serving.