Simple Way to Make Favorite Lasagna Casserole

Lasagna Casserole.

Hello everybody, hope you're having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, lasagna casserole. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I'm gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Lasagna Casserole is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It's enjoyed by millions every day. Lasagna Casserole is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook lasagna casserole using 21 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

Composition of Lasagna Casserole:

1. Provide - 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. Provide - or so Mozzarella cheese for topping.
3. Provide of Sauce.
4. Give ground meat, personally we like 1/2 beef and 1/2 venison. You could use pork, turkey, sausage, whatever.
5. You need of olive oil, if your meat lacks fat.
6. Prepare for large onion, diced.
7. Prepare - minced garlic.
8. Need - Salt and pepper.
9. You need - dried basil, oregano, and parsley.
10. Provide for jar of pasta sauce, and a little water to rinse out the jar.
11. Need can of tomato paste (optional for more intense tomato flavor).
12. You need cooking sherry.
13. Require of red wine vinegar (cuts the sweetness).
14. Provide for sugar to bring flavors together.
15. Require for Cheese filling layer.
16. Provide cottage cheese or ricotta (full fat tastes best).
17. Require eggs.
18. Give - parsley.
19. You need pepper (use slightly more if coarse ground).
20. Prepare - grated parmesan.
21. Need of shredded Mozzarella cheese.

Lasagna Casserole step by step:

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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