Delicious Cheesy Chicken Lasagna
If your alfredo sauce already has garlic in it you can omit the fresh garlic, and you can also make this with cooked turkey. If you like more sauce then double up on the amounts, to save time you can prepare the sauce well in advance, this is very good!
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INGREDIENTS
Nutrition- 9lasagna noodles, cooked
- 4cups cooked chopped chicken
- 3
SAUCE
- 3 -4tablespoons butter
- 1
- 1 -2
- 1(10 ounce) can cream of chicken soup, undiluted
- 1
- 1
- 1(6 ounce) can sliced mushrooms (or use fresh sauteed)
- 1⁄3cup dry white wine
- 1
- salt and pepper
FILLING
- 1
- 1cup cottage cheese
- 1cup ricotta cheese
- 1⁄2teaspoon garlic powder
- 1⁄2cup grated parmesan cheese
- 1⁄2
- 1
- salt and black pepper
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DIRECTIONS
- Set oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease a 13 x 9-inch baking dish.
- For the sauce; in a skillet melt butter over medium heat.
- Add in onion and saute for about 5 minutes, adding in the garlic the last 2 minutes.
- Stir in the undiluted cream of chicken soup, alfredo sauce, pimientos with juice, mushrooms, white wine and basil; simmer over low heat for about 15-20 minutes.
- Season the sauce with salt and pepper to taste (you can prepare the sauce well in advance if desired).
- Set about 1 cup of the sauce aside for the top of the noodles (if doubled the sauce then set aside 2 cups).
- For filling mixture; In a bowl mix together the drained chopped spinach, cottage cheese, ricotta, garlic powder, Parmesan cheese, egg, and mozzarella cheese (if using) season the mixture with salt and pepper.
- Place 3 cooked lasagna noodles in the bottom of the prepared baking dish.
- Layer with HALF of the sauce (not the 1 cup of reserved sauce, that will go on top of the casserole).
- Then half of the spinach mixture and then HALF the chicken, then about 1 cup of cheddar cheese (you can use more cheese if desired).
- Place 3 lasagna noodles on top of the cheddar cheese then repeat the procedure.
- Top with the 3 remaining noodles and the reserved 1 cup of sauce.
- At this point you can cover and refrigerate for up to 1 day.
- Bake covered for about 45 minutes, uncovered and sprinkle with about 1 cup cheddar cheese.
- Return to oven and bake uncovered for another 10 minutes.
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