Lasagna

Serves 9 to 12

Great potluck recipe with garlic bread and Caesar salad. 

Sue 

Lasagna

Ingredients

1 lb ground beef

1 large onion, chopped

2-5 oz cans tomato paste

2 cups water

1 to 2 tablespoons dried parsley

2 tsp salt

½ tsp pepper

1 garlic clove, minced or 1/2 tsp garlic powder

½ tub cottage cheese, approximately 1 cup

1 egg

9 to 12 lasagna noodles

1 to 2 lbs shredded Mozzarella cheese

Approximately 1/2 cup parmesan cheese

Instructions

Cook onion and ground beef in pan until beef is no longer pink.

To make sauce: In a medium pot bring to boil and simmer for 1/2 hour: tomato paste, 2 cups water water, parsley, salt, pepper, garlic, hamburger and onion.

Meanwhile cook noodles: Half fill a large pot with water and a bit of oil. Bring water to boil. Add noodles. Cook the noodles for approximately 15 minutes and strain.

In small bowl mix egg and cottage cheese.

To assemble lasagna:

Put 1/3 of sauce in 9 inch x 13 inch baking pan, then add layers as follows:

a. Add a layer of noodles over sauce.

b. Add a bit of Mozzarella cheese and a 1/3 or 1/2 of the cottage cheese mixture.

c. Add a layer of noodles

d. Add sauce. Add a bit of Mozerella cheese and a 1/3 or 1/2 cottage cheese mixture. Add a layer of noodles.

e. Repeat "d." if you still have noodles and used 1/3 of the cottage cheese mixture. Finishing with noodles.

f. Add some sauce over noodles.

g. Finish with Mozzarella cheese and sprinkle the parmesan cheese of top.

Bake at 350° F for 30- 40 minutes. Let cool 15 minutes before serving.

Note: Optional, add a layer of cooked or frozen spinach in the center of the lasagna.

Double batch of lasagna 

Lasagna served with Ceasar salad and garlic bread