Its a time consuming meal so I always like to make more then one batch and freeze extras. It is also one of the more expensive meals. This one you'll want the Pyrex for as well.
I'm giving you my friend Liz's recipe. You'll have left over sauce. Just put it in a freezer bag and use it for spaghetti. Sometimes I'm lazy and I'll just buy the already made sauce in a jar (Ragu, Prego...), but making it yourself is much cheaper.
"K so I don’t have measurements cuz I don’t measure anything…
This will make a 13x9 pan, sometimes a 13x9 pan and 9x9…
I generally have sauce left over, but I don’t know how much…
Sauce
1 lg can of crushed tomatoes (at the grocery store – don’t know the size but it’s the lg can – not lg costco size:))
1 reg can of diced or cut tomatoes
1 reg can of tomato sauce
1 small can of tomato paste
Italian seasoning
Oregano
Basil
Parsley
Garlic powder
Chopped onions (fresh or dried)
Pepper
Salt
(if you add a little bit of sugar it will make it less spicy if you like less spicy)
Simmer for a few hours to blend all the flavors (or as long as you can :). Simmer while you are preparing everything else. The flavors will blend during the weeks it spends in the freezer)
Brown Ground Italian Sausage and add to sauce (you could also do ground beef, or meatballs, or Italian links for spaghetti too:)) (if doing italian links squeeze out of the skin and brown then add to sauce)
Cook one box of lasagna noodles (you need 9 unbroken ones and can have an equivalent of 3 broken ones to fill a 13x9 so when you do a whole box you can generally do the 13x9 and 9x9 since you have enough sauce)
Rinse noodles and lay flat on the counter
Cheeses
1 tub of ricotta cheese (I like the lowfat precious brand – there are two sizes, you want the larger size)
1 egg
Italian Seasoning
Italian Bread crumbs
Parmesan cheese
-mix above ingredients together
Grate a ball of mozzarella cheese (I like the low fat precious brand)
Lasagna
Spread a little bit of sauce on the bottom of pan
Lay 3 lasagna noodles and the cut/broken ones to fill the bottom of 13x9 pan
Spread sauce over each noodles
Drop small spoonfuls of cheese mixture
Spread grated mozzarella cheese over top
Layer more lasagna noodles on top and press down to evenly spread cheese mixture
Repeat sauce, cheese mixture, mozzarella
Another layer of noodles again pressing to evenly spread cheese mixture
Sauce and mozzarella
Put in Freezer or Bake in oven 350 degrees 30-45 minutes till top is golden brown
1 comment:
does the baking time change when it's frozen? sounds yummy!!!!
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