Baked Lasagna

Submitted by PanNan

"This is the top lasagna recipe in our family. It originally came from a junior league recipe book called River Road Recipes."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 15mins
• Ingredients: 15
• Serves: 8-10

ingredients

• 1 lb lean ground beef
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1 tablespoon dried chopped parsley
• 1 tablespoon dried basil
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups tomatoes (or one can of diced tomatoes)
• 2 (6 ounce) cans tomato paste
• 1 (8 ounce) package dry lasagna noodles
• 1 (24 ounce) carton cottage cheese
• 2 beaten eggs
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon pepper
• 2 tablespoons dried chopped parsley
• 1⁄2 cup grated parmesan cheese
• 1 lb grated mozzarella cheese

directions

1. Brown meat slowly.
2. Add next 6 ingredients to meat (garlic through tomato paste).
3. Add one tomato paste can of water.
4. Simmer uncovered until thick or about 45 minutes.
5. Meanwhile combine cottage cheese with eggs, salt, pepper, parsley and Parmesan.
6. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use.
7. Also meanwhile, cook lasagna noodles in boiling water until tender.
8. Drain and rinse with cold water.
9. Spray a 13X9X2 baking pan with vegetable oil spray.
10. Place 1/2 of the noodles in the bottom of the pan.
11. Spread 1/2 of the cottage cheese mixture over the noodles.
12. Next layer 1/2 of the meat mixture over the cottage cheese, then sprinkle 1/2 of the mozzarella over the meat.
13. Layer again with noodes, cottage cheese, meat and mozzarella cheese.
14. Bake at 375 for 30 minutes, until bubbling and mozzarella has browned some.

Reviews

[Panino]

Excellent meld of flavors! Super dish that the whole family loved. I am replacing the lasagna recipe which I have used for about 25 years with this recipe! Used a can of Italian flavored diced tomatoes and wedge of hand grated parm.Used fresh parsley, oregano, and basil. Thanks Pan Nan for posting this family favorite of yours!

 

[Suzi Brown]

I love to eat lasagna, and I'm always looking for a new way to make it taste better than the last one. I will now stop looking. This was truly the best lasagna I've made. I made 4 of them for my daughters birthday party, and they were eatten all gone!!!!!!! Now when I go somewhere and am asked to bring something, they ask for the lasagna from the birthday party.

 

[PattyLouise]

This was so good!!!!! A real keeper to say the least. Sauce had a wonderful flavor.

 

[LuuvBunny]

This is a delicious lasagna.I had a recipe for lasagna before but this one is so much better I threw the old one out!I only had 1 tin of tomato paste so that\'s all I used,it was fine with just the one.I also added a tsp of oregano and made the whole thing a few hours ahead of time.I will definately be making this again.

 

[Gingerbear]

This was very good! I did change a couple of things though but I know that it would have been excellent without the changes that I made. I used a lb of chuck and a lb of sausage. I like to make extra sauce for everything just incase and yes, it was too much sauce. I also added black olives and mushrooms to the sauce and used mostly all mozarella cheese but a little bit of Jack and Coldy too but not much. This is a great recipe and I am going to use this one again. Thank you!