Turkey Lasagna With Zucchini Pasta Recipe

How to make it

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• Lay the sliced zucchini on your cookie sheet. You can out them on top of each other if you like. Salt them then bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.
• When done, lay them on paper towel, place another paper towel on top, then place another layer of the cooked zucchini on top. Keep layering until all the sliced zucchini has paper towel on top and on the bottom of each layer.
• Allow the paper towel to soak up the extra moisture from the zucchini. This allows the zucchini to be pliable and act as the pasta in this dish.
• In the mean time, in a sauce pot on medium heat, add your diced tomatoes, Thyme leaves and 1 tbs of mince garlic. Allow to cook for 15 to 20 mins.
• Then add the fresh basil to the tomatoes and allow to cook for 5 more minutes.
• Turn off the flame, and puree all the ingredients in the pot with your immersion blender (stick blender). If you don't have one, a food processor is fine just make sure it can handle the hot temperature. Puree until smooth.
• Return to the tomato sauce back on the stove and let continue to cook on a very low flame to reduce or thicken the sauce.
• In the meantime, Cook your onions and peppers, then add the ground turkey meat and the remaining 1 tbs of minced garlic.
• Add Salt , Pepper and Smoked Paprika.
• Continue cooking the ground turkey on medium heat until there is no pink.
• Add the tomato sauce to the ground turkey and allow them to cook together until the sauce is reduced, 25 - 30 minutes.
• Now it's time to start the layering process. We are going to do 3 layers and it goes in the following order:
• 1 - Zucchini, 2 - Ground turkey, 3 - Ricotta, 4 - Mozzarella See Photo. For each layer of zucchini, lay them in the opposite direction. So for instance in the picture above, the zucchini is laid out horizontally. After adding the ground turkey, ricotta & mozzarella, the next layer of zucchini will be laid out vertically, etc.
• We are going to do that 3 times, then sprinkle the parsley on top. Then we bake at 350 degrees for 50 - 60 minutes. See Photo
• Let cool and settle for about 30 minutes to an hour. Use a serrated knife to cut your pieces.
• You will be tempted to cut into this right away, but trust me, you don't the time you spent layering to go to waste. So take it out of the oven, put it on the counter and walk away.
• I accomplished this clean-cut the next day. So after I had it for dinner the night before, I had another piece for lunch the next day. It was even better! See Photo
• Yeah, the folks at the job were jealous. See Photo
• ENJOY!
• Carol