Lasagna With Italian Sausage and Spinach

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- Ready In:
- 1hr 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 20
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
- 12 ounces dried lasagna noodles, cooked in boiling water
- 3 tablespoons oil
- 1 onion, diced
- 1⁄2 green bell pepper, diced
- 1 lb mild Italian sausage, casings removed
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 30 ounces diced tomatoes, canned
- 6 ounces tomato paste
- 1⁄4 cup parsley, minced
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 10 ounces frozen chopped spinach, thawed
- 16 ounces small curd cottage cheese
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1⁄4 cup parmesan cheese
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 lb mozzarella cheese, grated
- 1⁄4 cup parmesan cheese
directions
- Rinse cooked lasagna noodles and set aside. Be sure that you don't use more than 12 oz. or the lasagna will be too dry.
- Meanwhile, in a dutch oven or other large vessel, put the oil, onion and green bell pepper. Saute over medium heat until the onion is tender.
- Add the sausage and garlic and stir-fry until well browned, chopping up the meat as you stir, to make sure all of the pieces are small.
- Add the diced tomatoes, tomato paste, parsley, oregano, basil and 1 teaspoons salt. Reduce heat to low and simmer for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Meanwhile, press out the water from the thawed spinach so that it is very dry. Put the spinach into a medium-size mixing bowl.
- Add the cottage cheese, egg, 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese, 1 teaspoons salt and black pepper to the spinach. Stir until well mixed.
- In another medium-size bowl put the grated Mozzarella cheese.
- In a lasagna pan that you have oiled, put down 1/3 of the tomato-meat sauce.
- Cover with 1/2 of the lasagna noodles.
- Top with 1/2 of the spinach-cottage cheese filling.
- Top with half of the mozzarella cheese.
- Repeat using 1/3 of the tomato-meat sauce, remaining noodles, remaining spinach filling and mozzarella cheese.
- Top with the remaining 1/3 of the tomato-meat sauce and sprinkle 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese over the very top.
- Bake in a 350 degrees oven for 45 minutes.
- You might wonder whether or not there is enough tomato sauce, but once the lasagna heats up and the cheese gets gooey, there is enough sauce. I don't like a a lasagna with lots of runny heavy tomato sauce that covers the taste of everything else in the lasagna. If you feel like you need a bit more, add an 8 oz. can of tomato sauce to the tomato-meat sauce.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Andtototoo
United States
I like to eat a variety of food so have lots of different kinds of recipes that I have added and reviewed. Probably the favorite foods that I have reviewed are the ones with Nutella in the ingredients.