Put It Together In 15 Minutes Lasagna

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1/3 tablespoon olive oil
• 1/2 cup chopped onion
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 1/2 lbs lean ground beef or 1 1/2 lbs ground turkey
• 1/2 tablespoon dried basil
• 1/2 tablespoon dried oregano
• 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes (more or less to your liking)
• 1 (28 ounce) can diced tomatoes
• 0.5 (14 ounce) can tomato sauce
• salt and black pepper
• 3 cups ricotta cheese (regular or part-skim)
• 16 ounces grated mozzarella cheese, divided (regular or part-skim)
• 1 egg
• 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 12 uncooked lasagna noodles
• 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese or 1/4 cup romano cheese

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f
• 2 lasagna sauce:
• 3 sauté onion and garlic in olive oil until soft.
• 4 add beef, season with salt and pepper, then brown.
• 5 stir in basil, oregano and red pepper flakes.
• 6 add diced tomatoes and tomato sauce and bring to a simmer.
• 7 reduce heat to low and simmer 10 to 15 minutes.
• 8 remove from heat and set aside.
• 9 cheese filling:.
• 10 in a separate bowl, combine ricotta, 2/3 of the mozzarella, egg, and black pepper.
• 11 mix well.
• 12 putting it together:.
• 13 pour 1 cup of the meat sauce in the bottom of a 13 by 9-inch lasagna pan.
• 14 arrange 4 uncooked lasagna noodles on top of sauce, overlapping noodles slightly to cover the bottom.
• 15 spoon half of the cheese mixture over noodles.
• 16 cover cheese mixture with 1 1/2 cups of meat sauce and 4 more noodles.
• 17 top second layer of noodles with remaining cheese mixture, 1 1/2 cups of meat sauce and 4 more noodles.
• 18 top noodles with 1 1/2 cups of meat sauce and remaining mozzarella cheese.
• 19 top with parmesan cheese.
• 20 cover with foil and bake 45 minutes. uncover and bake 15 more minutes, until top is golden and bubbly.
• 21 let stand 5 minutes before slicing.