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Meaty Lasagna

Source of Recipe

Lotsa Recipes.com


Recipe Introduction

This is a recipe that I've been making for about 7 years. It started out as a recipe that was told to me over the phone and I adjusted it over the years, to look at the piece of paper I wrote it out on, it is no longer recognized as the same recipe now!

Recipe Link: www.lotsarecipes.com

List of Ingredients

Meat Sauce:

1 lb. ground beef
1 can tomato sauce
1/2 tsp. minced garlic
1 diced onion
fresh herbs (rosemary, oregano, thyme, savory)
worchestershire sauce
tabasco sauce
salsa (optional)

Cheese Layer:

2 cups cottage cheese
2 cups cream cheese or ricotta cheese
1 frozen pkg. spinach
1/2 cup mozzarella
1/2 cup fresh parmesan
1/2 diced onion
fresh herbs (rosemary, oregano, thyme, savory)
1/2 cup chopped celery (optional)

12 dry lasagna noodles or 1/2 pkg. fresh lasagna noodles


Recipe

Preheat oven to 350*. Bring to room temperature the cottage
cheese, cream cheese and spinach. Brown ground beef with
onions, garlic, worchestershire sauce and tabasco. Drain and
return to pan. Add tomato sauce and bring to a slow boil.
Turn element down to minimum.

Mix cottage cheese and cream cheese. Add spinach, onions, herbs
and cheese. Mix well.

In 9x12 pan pour enough salsa or tomato sauce to cover the
bottom. Layer lasagna noodles. Layer meat mixture and cheese
mixture topped with mozzarella cheese then noodles until
reaching 3/4 of the way to the top of the pan. Finish layering
with noodles, tomato sauce and end with grated mozzarella.
Cover with tin foil and bake for 30-35 minutes, or until
mozzarella is melted and bubbly. Remove foil and bake for
another 10 minutes until top layer of mozzarella cheese
is browned.

This recipe freezes well. Do NOT put the lasagna that is
going into the freezer into the oven. Let cool and freeze
immediately.