Lasagna With Italian Sausage and Spinach

"I don't like lasagna!!! But, I do like this one. It took me a good 10 years to come up with a lasagna recipe that I lilke. I happen to like cottage cheese in my lasagna, but if you prefer ricotta, substitute. All four food groups are in this recipe. Hope that you enjoy it as much as I do!"
 
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Ready In:
1hr 50mins
Ingredients:
20
Serves:
8

ingredients

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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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  1. Pretty yummy! I added about 3 ounces of water to the meat sauce and didn't precook the noodles! 55 min in a covered pan, turned out great! Thanks!
     
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