Lasagna Casserole
Ready In: 40 mins
Serves: 12
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, chopped
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- 1 teaspoon basil
- 1 (16 ounce) can plum tomatoes (drain tomatoes and coarsely chop)
- 1 (16 ounce) can tomato sauce
- 1 (400 g) container ricotta cheese
- 1 cup parmesan cheese
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese
- 4 cups corkscrew macaroni, scoobi do noodles (or whatever noodles you like ... i like curly noodles because it holds all the cheese and meat and s)
Directions
- In a large pot boil 4 quarts water and start boiling pasta.
- Brown ground beef with onion and garlic. Drain fat if you want -- leave it if your not worried about fat content (makes the flavour better with the fat).
- Drain can tomatoes and while tomatoes are in drainer, use the edge of your spatula or spoon to coarsely break tomatoes apart.
- Add all ingredients to ground beef except cheese.
- Once pasta is boiled, drain and in the large pot used for boiling mix pasta and meat sauce. Add ricotta cheese and half the Parmesan and then half the mozzarella.
- Mix well and pour into casserole dish.
- Top with remaining cheeses and bake for 20 - 30 minutes at 400°.
- Serve with Caesar salad and garlic bread.
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