Lasagna with Meat Sauce

By karenstl

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 lb ground beef
• 1 onion, chopped
• 8 ounces tomato sauce
• 6 ounces tomato paste
• 3 garlic cloves, chopped
• salt and pepper, to taste
• 1 tbsp basil
• 1 tbsp oregano
• 1 tbsp Italian seasoning
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 24 ounces cottage cheese, large curd
• 6 lasagna noodles
• 12 oz sliced mozzarella cheese (sandwich sized slices or larger)
• 4 tbsp Parmesan cheese

Details

Servings 8
Preparation time 20mins
Cooking time 110mins
Adapted from futureexpat.com

Preparation

Step 1

Directions

Brown ground beef with onion in large pot until it is no longer pink. Place meat in a strainer to drain grease, then pour meat back into the pot.

Add tomato sauce & tomato paste, plus one can of water of each, to the meat.

Add garlic, salt, pepper, basil and oregano.

Stir the sauce and cook over low heat for 45 minutes or more. After about 20 minutes, taste the sauce and add more spices as needed.

About 20 minutes before you are ready to assemble the lasagna, bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add lasagna noodles, laying them flat. Do not break the noodles. If they don’t fit all of the way into the pot, that’s ok. After about 1 minute they will be soft in the middle and push them down with a large cooking spoon until the ends are in the water. Cook the noodles in boiling water according to the package directions and then drain.

While the noodles are cooking, mix the eggs and cottage cheese in a medium bowl.

Spray 9 x 13 glass baking dish with cooking spray.

TO ASSEMBLE LASAGNA: Place layer of noodles on bottom of pan, cutting them to fit so they do not overlap.

Spread 1/2 of the cottage cheese – egg mixture over the noodles.

Place a layer of mozzarella cheese on the cottage cheese, cutting the cheese as needed to avoid overlapping.

Spread 1/2 of the meat sauce on top of the mozzarella cheese.

Sprinkle with 2 oz Parmesan cheese.

Repeat the layers (noodles, cottage cheese, mozzarella cheese, meat sauce and then Parmesan cheese).

Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.