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Easy Lasagna

Course: Dinner

Ingredients

  • 375 g 1 pkg oven ready lasagne noodles
  • 3 cups spaghetti sauce
  • 1 pound ground beef
  • 1 onion
  • 4 cloves garlic minced
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 pound ricotta cheese
  • 1 egg beaten
  • ½ pound mozzarella cheese grated
  • ¾ cup parmesan cheese grated
  • 1 tablespoon parsley flakes
  • Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

  • In a large skillet, brown onion, garlic and ground meat. Add spaghetti sauce and the 1 cup water, bring to a boil. In a large bowl, mix together ricotta cheese, egg, mozzarella cheese and Parmesan cheese. Add parsley flakes and salt and pepper to taste.
  • To Assemble: Spread a thin layer of hot spaghetti sauce mixture in bottom of a 5 quart casserole dish, preferably with a lid. Add a layer of lasagne noodles, slightly overlapping, break noodles to fit a curved dish, if needed.
  • Spread ½ of cheese mixture over lasagne noodles.
  • Layer more noodles over cheese.
  • Use ½ of remaining meat sauce, and cover with final row of noodles.
  • Add rest of cheese and top with remaining meat sauce.
  • Cover and bake at 375°F for 40 minutes.
  • Note: Meat sauce is used as the final layer so as not to overly brown the cheese and to be sure all noodles are well covered to prevent browned hard edges.
  • · If using foil as a lid to bake, remove foil before storing in fridge. Foil reacts to tomato sauce turning it black.