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Homemade Lasagna - Meat Lovers Recipe


Homemade Lasagna - Meat Lovers Recipe
Adapted recipe from Elena's Kitchen.

Jemison

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Ingredients
  • Ingredients for sauce:
  • 1 T oilive oil
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 2 lb lean ground beef
  • 11/2 t each: salt and pepper (or to taste)
  • 1 - 28 oz can whole tomatoes
  • 2 - 28 oz cans crushed tomatoes
  • whole dried red chili pepper
  • 1 t oregano
  • 5 leaves fresh basil
  • grated cheese
  • 2 c ricotta chese (italian style)
  • 1 brick mozzarella cheese
  • 3 eggs

Directions
  1. Sauce:
  2. In a large saucepan, heat oil over medium heat.
  3. Add onions and garlic; cook until lightly browned
  4. Add beef, salt and pepper; cook 5 minutes or until meat is cooked through, stirring constantly.
  5. Stir in tomatoes, bay leaf, chili pepper, bring to a boil.
  6. Reduce heat to low and cook 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
  7. Pasta:
  8. in a large pot of boiling, salted water, cook lasagna pasta 6 minutes, al dente.
  9. Drain lasagna pasta and set aside.
  10. Ricotta mixture:
  11. In a bowl mix ricotta and eggs and whisk until creamy. Add salt and pepper to taste.
  12. The assembly:
  13. In a large baking pan add some sauce to the bottom of the pan.
  14. Add the lasagna one piece at the time and compile them side by side.
  15. Now add some sauce on the layer.
  16. Add grated cheese and little bit of shredded mozzarella so the layers stay together and firm.
  17. On the third layer of lasagna pasta add the sauce and the ricotta, egg mixture .
  18. Keep going until you get to the top of the pan.
  19. There should not be more than 6 layers (the ricotta mixture should be put on at leat two of the layers.)
  20. The final assembly is the last layer - lots of mozzarella and grated cheese.
  21. The cooking process:
  22. Pre-heat oven 350 degrees.
  23. Let cook 25 minutes covered.
  24. Uncover and cook an additional 15 minutes undtil lightly browned.
  25. Let set at least 20 minutes so that the lasagna becomes firm enough to cut into portions.

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Comments


Yumola. Great post. You have my 5 and this one is printed off and ready to be mixed up. Dinner tomorrow night.


Fantastic! I love this one.


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