Lasagna. The ultimate comfort food lasagna, with layers of rich homemade meat sauce, creamy béchamel sauce , noodles , cheese and fresh mozzarella. This classic lasagna is made with an easy meat sauce as the base. Layer the sauce with noodles and cheese, then bake until bubbly!
It evokes images of of gatherings with family and friends all around the world.
This lasagna recipe calls for uncooked noodles to be baked between layers of cheese and beef in spaghetti sauce.
The easiest and best tasting lasagna I've made, including authentic Italian recipes that take twice as long.
You can cook Lasagna using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Lasagna
- It's of ground beef.
- You need of Olive oil.
- You need of onion, chopped.
- You need of garlic, minced.
- You need of to taste Italian seasoning.
- You need of to taste Salt & pepper.
- You need of x 24 oz jar pasta sauce.
- Prepare of egg.
- Prepare of jar ricotta cheese.
- It's of grated parmesan cheese.
- You need of small bunch fresh parsley, chopped (about 1/4 cup).
- Prepare of shredded mozzarella.
- Prepare of lasagna noodles, cooked.
Lasagna noodles need structure—they have a lot of ingredients layered between them!—so they can't be too mushy. Make sure to cook them until they're very al Oil 'em up. While you're making your beef and ricotta mixtures, your lasagna noodles will typically be hanging out in a colander, getting stuck. These lasagna recipes (some vegan, others stuffed full of meat and cheese) prove just how much flavor can be stacked between sheets of pasta.
Lasagna instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees..
- Sauté onion and garlic in olive oil for a few minutes, until fragrant. Add ground beef and cook until brown..
- Add both jars pasta sauce, Italian seasoning to taste and salt & pepper to taste. Stir until evenly mixed and turn heat to low, letting simmer while mixing other ingredients..
- In a medium bowl, mix 1-1/4 c mozzarella, the ricotta cheese, 1/4 c parmesan, egg and parsley. Stir until combined..
- Spread 1-1/2 c meat sauce in bottom of lightly greased 9x13 pan. Top with layers of 3 lasagna noodles, 1/3 of ricotta cheese mixture, and 1-1/2 c meat sauce, spreading each out evenly. Repeat layers two more times. Top with remaining 3 noodles and remaining meat sauce. Sprinkle top with rest of mozzarella & parmesan..
- Cover tightly with greased foil..
- Bake 1 hour. Remove foil and bake an additional 15 minutes..
- All done!.
From Italian lasagna (and its plural lasagne), possibly from Vulgar Latin *lasania, from Latin lasanum ("cooking pot"), from Ancient Greek λάσανον (lásanon, "trivet or stand for a pot"). Others argue the Italian lasagna originally derived from the Arabic لَوْزِينَج (lawzīnaj, "almond cake"). This lasagna recipe is super simple to make, and so flavorful. It's perfect for potlucks and other large gatherings. You'll never need another lasagna recipe!