Fast Lasagna

I made my husband a quick version of Lasagna for his birthday. It's really easy and anyone can have perfect lasagna every time if you follow this recipe.

One box of oven ready Lasagna noodles

one jar of your favorite vegetable garden spaghetti sauce

1small onion

2 cloves of garlic

1/2 pound of hamburger

1/2 pound of Italian sausage with out the casing

24 oz cottage cheese

1 egg

3cups of mozzarella

seasonings

 

Fry up the onion and garlic until soft. You could also add green pepper, carrots or mushrooms whatever you like.

Add to sauce. Fry up the hamburger and sausage in the same pan the onions were in, mixing the two together. Add that to the sauce and heat sauce till boiling.

 Italian sausage and hamburger

Mix cottage cheese with an egg add salt and pepper, oregano, garlic, any other seasoning you like to taste. You could use ricotta but cottage cheese is cheaper and give the lasagna a light taste.

 Layer in this order.

1. sauce
2. noodle
3. cottage cheese mixture
4. sauce mixture
5. mozzarella
6. noodle
7. cottage cheese mixture
8. sauce mixture
9.  mozzarella

And then for the last layer put noodle, sauce mixture and the rest of the mozzarella and parsley flakes.

I fit three noodles across in this pan.

Cover the pan with aluminum foil and bake at 350 degree preheated oven for 30 minutes. Remove foil and bake for another 15 to 20 minutes until cheese is bubbling and browned.

Just before it was ready for the oven.

 Be sure to let the Lasagna set up for about 10 minutes or so before you cut into it. That just long enough to cook the garlic bread or shred up a nice lettuce and tomato salad.

End result. It could have set a little longer to be less watery but we couldn't wait.

Here it is on the plate. Needed a little Parmesan and it was delicious.