Low Carb Lasagna Mama

Nocarbmama's Note:

This low carb recipe for lasagna has been perfectly tweeked to insure the lowest carbs. It has all the goodies like meat, cheeses and low carb vegies. Sure to satisfy the entire family.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 12 mins
• Prep Time: 30 mins
• Cook Time: 42 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 4

Yield: 4.0

• 1 lb lean ground chuck
• 1/2 green tomato
• 1 small tomato
• 1 teaspoon oregano
• 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 (7 ounce) can tomato sauce (I used mexican El Pato medium )
• 2 cups zucchini
• 1 cup cottage cheese
• 1/4 cup parmesan cheese
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese

Directions:

1. Brown ground chuck in skillet coated with Pam cooking spray. Add chopped green tomato and chopped red tomato. Add salt and pepper to taste. Stir and add remaining ingredients. Let simmer till all is cooked and tender. While this is cooking slice the zucchini long ways into 1/4 inch thicknesses.Lay zucchini on plate and sprinkle with pinch of salt. Top with an upside down plate of same size and plate all in microwave for 2 minutes.
2. In medium bowl beat the egg. Add cottage cheese and Parmesan cheese to the egg and stir well till blended. Set aside.
3. Put 1/3 of the meat mixture in bottom of 10 inch casserole dish that has been sprayed with Pam cooking spray. Top with 1/3 of the zucchini slices.
4. Top the zucchini slices with all the cottage cheese mixture. Top with remaining meat mixture and zucchini slices. Sprinkle the mozzarella cheese on top. Bake at 350 degrees for a total of 42 minutes. Top with aluminum foil covering the top for first 30 minutes of baking time then remove the foil so that the cheese can get a little brown in spots during the remaining 12 minutes of baking.

Reviews

[feydw_9648514]

Made this last night and it was so great. But, made some enhancements...used mild Italian sausage, added a can of sliced black olives, a can of mushrooms and increased the amount of mozzarella to a cup. Obviously these changes increased the fat and calorie content, but not the carb content significantly. Will make this again very soon.

[Tea Jenny]

Mmmm! this was yummy, I made it to the recipe with the exception of the green tomato as I didn't have any. I just upped the red which might change the carbs a wee bit, other than I followed the recipe it was very nice. I have made it with aubergine or eggplant and that was good also but I think I like this better as the zucchini was from my garden. thank you for posting made for PAC October 2011