How to Prepare Perfect Lasagna Casserole

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, lasagna casserole. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Lasagna Casserole is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Lasagna Casserole is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have lasagna casserole using 21 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Lasagna Casserole:

1. Make ready 16 oz uncooked pasta, shape is your choice. I use elbow mac, rotini, or penne. If you can find mini lasagna noodles go for it, bow tie works good too
2. Get 2 cups or so Mozzarella cheese for topping
3. Make ready Sauce
4. Make ready 2 lbs ground meat, personally we like 1/2 beef and 1/2 venison. You could use pork, turkey, sausage, whatever
5. Get 1-2 tbsp olive oil, if your meat lacks fat
6. Make ready 1/2 large onion, diced
7. Take 3-4 cloves minced garlic
8. Take to taste Salt and pepper
9. Get 1 tbsp dried basil, oregano, and parsley
10. Prepare 44 oz jar of pasta sauce, and a little water to rinse out the jar
11. Prepare 6 oz can of tomato paste (optional for more intense tomato flavor)
12. Prepare 1 tbsp cooking sherry
13. Prepare 1-2 tbsp red wine vinegar (cuts the sweetness)
14. Get Pinch sugar to bring flavors together
15. Take Cheese filling layer
16. Make ready 24 oz cottage cheese or ricotta (full fat tastes best)
17. Get 2 eggs
18. Prepare 2 tbsp parsley
19. Get 1/2 tsp pepper (use slightly more if coarse ground)
20. Get 1/2 cup grated parmesan
21. Get 8 oz shredded Mozzarella cheese

Instructions to make Lasagna Casserole:

1. Bring large pot of water to boil, salt water and cook noodles to al dente. Drain and set aside.
2. Brown meat, and as meat is getting close to done add in onion, garlic, salt and pepper. Cook until onions are getting translucent, and add herbs (oregano, parsley, and basil). Then add pasta sauce and tomato paste if using. Stir well together, add the vinegar and sherry. Taste and adjust seasonings as needed, add the sugar, then let simmer together for an hour. Watch bottom of pan that it doesn't scorch.
3. Heat oven to 375. Put your cheese and two eggs into a bowl, beat together until smooth (important for if you use cottage cheese instead of ricotta, helps smooth out out. Cottage cheese also spreads easier during assembly). Stir in pepper, parsley, and parmesan. Finally mix in Mozzarella cheese.
4. Once all your components are assembled, spray a 11x16 casserole pan with cooking spray. You will assemble starting with 1/3 of the noodles, 1/3 of the sauce, and 1/2 of cheese mixture. Repeat the layers, and end with last third of noodles topped with sauce. Finally spread 2 cups of Mozzarella cheese over top of the casserole.
5. Cover with foil, bake for 40 minutes. Remove foil and bake for another 15 minutes, if you want the cheese on top browned and slightly more crispy put under the broiler for a hot minute. Allow to cool for 10 minutes to set up before dishing up. Feed to hungry children and husband!

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