Lazy Day Lasagna (Oamc)

Submitted by Chef Buggsy Mate

"A simple lasagna for those busy days. Cook it ahead of time and just pull it out of the freezer. This makes three lasagnas."

 

• Ready In: 2hrs 30mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Yields: 3 lasagnas
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 36 ounces cottage cheese
• 6 cups mozzarella cheese, shredded
• 6 eggs
• 1 cup parsley, chopped
• 1 tablespoon onion powder
• 1 1⁄2 tablespoons dried basil leaves
• 1⁄4 teaspoon pepper
• 96 ounces favorite spaghetti sauce
• 2 1⁄2 cups ground beef, cooked
• 27 lasagna noodles, regular uncooked
• 2 1⁄4 cups water

directions

1. Assembly Directions:

2. In a large bowl, mix cheeses, eggs, parsley, onion powder, basil, and pepper until well blended; set aside.
3. In a medium bowl, mix together spaghetti sauce and cooked ground beef.
4. Line a 12x8x2 inch baking dish with heavy foil.
5. Spread 3/4 cup of the meat sauce on the bottom of the baking dish.
6. Layer 3 uncooked noodles and top with meat sauce.
7. Spread with 1/2 of the cottage cheese mixture and 1-1/2 cups meat sauce.
8. Layer 3 more noodles on top of meat sauce.
9. Spread with remaining cottage cheese mixture.
10. Top with remaining 3 uncooked noodles and remaining meat sauce.
11. Pour water around the edges.

12. Freezing and Cooking Directions:

13. Place foil lined baking dish in freezer. freeze until firm enough to remove from baking dish. Cover completely with another layer of heavy foil, then place in a gallon sized freezer bag and lable.
14. Repeat process with other two lasagnas.
15. To Serve: Place frozen foil wrapped lasagna back into baking dish originally used.
16. Thaw and bake covered at 375 degrees for 45 minutes.
17. Uncover and bake an additional 15 minutes.
18. Let stand 10 minutes.
19. Serve with parmesan cheese.
20. To bake from the frozen stage, and 30 minutes to total baking time.

Reviews

[mightyro_cooking4u]

This was great. I served it with spaghetti and a salad. Made for Make My Recipe and New Kids on the Block.

 

[thelamars4]

This was very good and incredibly easy. I used ricotta cheese for the cottage cheese as I prefer it. I didn't understand the 4 cups of water but did when we ate it. You must add the water or else the noodles will soak up all the sauce. I will do that next time although even with my mistake, it was very tasty. Super easy clean up, too.