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So.
I have to admit something to you.
Right here and now.
I have always struggled a bit with Lasagna making.
It’s true.
It seems to always turn out too runny or too dry.
My family always gives it the
“Yeah. So. Um……it was just ok, Mom but thanks for making it.”
Until now my friends!
I do believe I have finally fiddled and concocted enough.
This Luscious Italian Lasagna and I have received the following family ratings…
“Wow.”
“It is BLOG WORTHY!”
“More.” some of us have a small vocabulary…
“Get out of here…that is good stuff.”
“Totally make this every night.”
Don’t you love it when that happens?!
Luscious Italian Lasagna
Yield: 10 servings
Time: 30 minutes prep + 45 minutes baking time
Recipe from Jamie Cooks It Up!
1 -16 oz box lasagna noodles
2 -32 oz jars spaghetti sauce (I used 2 quarts of the homemade sauce we canned last fall from our garden tomatoes….oh, the beauty of that sauce. Get some tomatoes planted in the ground….I’ll be posting the recipe come August.)
1 pound sausage
1 -15 oz ricotta cheese
2 C mozzarella cheese, grated
1 C Parmesan cheese, grated
1 egg, whisked up until frothy
1/4 t salt
1/2 t oregano, dried
1 t parsley, dried
1/4 t cracked pepper
1/2 C mozzarella cheese, grated
1. In a large skillet brown your sausage. Drain off the fat and add your spaghetti sauce. Let the fine looking mixture simmer for about 20 minutes.
2. Cook up your lasagna noodles. Pour into a colander and run cool water over the top of them.
3. In a small mixing bowl combine the cheeses (all but 1/2 C of mozzarella), spices and the beaten egg. Mix well with a wooden spoon making sure everything is incorporated well.
4. Now for the layering! Spoon about 1/2 C of your sauce mixture onto the bottom of a 9×13 baking dish. Layer half of the noodles on top of the sauce, sprinkle with half of your cheese mixture and cover with half of the sauce. Repeat these layer one more time…
Noodles
Cheese
Sauce….
5. Sprinkle the top with 1/2 C mozzarella cheese and smile a big pretty smile.
6. Cover with foil and bake at 350 for 45 minutes. Or at this point you can cover, and put it in the fridge until you are ready to eat. You should plan to cook it for 1 hour if it has been refrigerated.
7. Let the Luscious Mixture from Heaven stand for about 10 minutes before serving. This will allow all the saucy juices to settle. Enjoy!
that looks sooo good…I want that for dinner!
Great looking lasagna you got here! Well, practice makes perfect, lol! Sometimes you really have to mess up a few ones before you can get it right especially when you don't really cook. In my case, cooking lasagna is as easy as ABC because I love cooking. I kinda measure ingredients by eye, I'm not really patient with those measuring cups and spoons, lol!
What temp. do you bake the lasagna at?
Anonymous,
Bake at 350. Sorry it wasn't posted with the recipe. Hope it turns out great!
~Jamie
I was planning on Lasagna for supper, now I have a great new recipe to try, even have the sausage in the freezer, yeah!!
The step number 3. (In a small mixing bowl combine the cheeses), was so difficult because I cannot mix it , I didn't know why but It was sprinkling every place!22dd
how finely do you chop the sausage to make it spread throughout the sauce evenly? and do you do it before or after browning?
lpkyber, if you are using sausage links in casing, you should remove the casings and crumble into the pan like ground beef. but they make bulk sausage not in casings and that is easier to use. if you don't want to remove the casings, I would slice the sausage 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick and just put it as one of the layers in the lasagna, probably over the cheese but under the sauce would work best.
I made this lasagna tonight and WOW, it is fabulous! Thanks Jamie!
So glad you liked it, Julie. Thanks for letting me know. 🙂
~Jamie