Simple Way to Make Quick Lasagna Casserole

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, lasagna casserole. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Lasagna Casserole is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Lasagna Casserole is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook lasagna casserole using 21 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Lasagna Casserole:

1. Prepare 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
2. Take or so Mozzarella cheese for topping
3. Take Sauce
4. Take ground meat, personally we like 1/2 beef and 1/2 venison. You could use pork, turkey, sausage, whatever
5. Make ready olive oil, if your meat lacks fat
6. Make ready large onion, diced
7. Take minced garlic
8. Take Salt and pepper
9. Get dried basil, oregano, and parsley
10. Take jar of pasta sauce, and a little water to rinse out the jar
11. Prepare can of tomato paste (optional for more intense tomato flavor)
12. Get cooking sherry
13. Take red wine vinegar (cuts the sweetness)
14. Get sugar to bring flavors together
15. Make ready Cheese filling layer
16. Make ready cottage cheese or ricotta (full fat tastes best)
17. Get eggs
18. Get parsley
19. Take pepper (use slightly more if coarse ground)
20. Take grated parmesan
21. Take shredded Mozzarella cheese

Steps to make Lasagna Casserole:

1. Bring large pot of water to boil, salt water and cook noodles to al dente. Drain and set aside.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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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