How to Cook Lasagna

Serves: 12

Preparation time: 30 mins

Cooking time: 30 mins

Ingredients needed to make lasagna:

• ½ lb ground beef
• 10 oz (1 package) lasagna sheets
• 1 lb hot sausages
• ¾ cup Parmesan cheese, grated
• 1 lb mozzarella cheese, sliced
• 3 cups low fat cottage cheese
• 2 whole beaten eggs
• 6 oz ( 2 cans) tomato paste
• 2 cans (14.5 oz) whole tomatoes
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 4 tbsp dried parsley
• 2 tbsp dried basil
• 1 + ½ tsp salt
• 1 tsp olive oil

Cooking instructions for lasagna:

• Fill a large stock pot with water, stir in ½ tsp salt and bring it to a boil.
• Meanwhile, heat a skillet over moderate heat and brown the ground beef slightly before stirring in the garlic as well as sausage.
• Continue to saute the mixture over moderately high heat, stirring frequently, until they brown completely.
• Skim off most of the fat oozing out of the meat and throw in the tomatoes, along with its paste.
• Sprinkle 2 tbsp each of dried parsley and basil as well as salt over the mixture and give it a nice stir to mix well.
• Simmer the sauce for about 45 minutes while you proceed with remaining part of the dish.
• Toss the cottage cheese, ½ cup grated Parmesan and rest of the dried parsley together with 1 tsp salt until distributed uniformly.
• Pour in the beaten eggs and stir them well together until properly blended.
• Add the lasagna sheets into the boiling, salted water, drizzle some olive oil over it and cook until ‘al dente’; drain and set aside.
• Arrange 4 of the sheets across the bottom of a pre-greased baking dish and top it up with half of the cheese mixture.
• Arrange the mozzarella slices above the previous layer and smother it with nearly half of the meat sauce.
• Repeat the layers until all the lasagna sheets are used up and finish it off with a large spoonful of meat sauce.
• Top it up with lots of Parmesan cheese and bake in the oven for about half an hour at the preheated temperature.
• You can freeze this ensemble for as long as 2 days before baking it.
• Once the cheese melts and the surface becomes bubbly, remove the lasagna from oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes.
• Slice and serve.

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Last Updated on December 22, 2012 by