If you look for an easy way to prepare lasagna, you're on the best place.
Why you are going to like this meal?
It is the most easiest method to cook lasagna, without doing too much effort. You just should layer your ingredients and cook in the crock pot.
Ingredients list:
- Italian sausage _ ground beef or ground turkey.
- white onions, yellow onions or shallots.
- Fresh minced garlic or jarred garlic.
- Tomato sauce if it is not available use jarred tomato sauce.
- normal lasagna noodles or oven ready lasagna noodles.
- Cheese of ricotta or cottage cheese but you will have different texture.
- Mozzarella mixed with some parmesan to make it more flavorful.
- Fresh basil or fresh parsley, use what you have.
Method and steps:
- At first cook the ground beef or the meat that you choose.
- Secondly make the tomato sauce by cutting the onions and add the tomato sauce and season everything with your favorite seasoning.
- Then start to assemble the layers together in the crock pot or any slow cooker you have, starting by putting the meat and pasta and the sauce, you will have three layers of each ingredient.
- Finish the process by tomato sauce and cheese .
- Last thing is to pour water in the sides of the pot then close your slow cooker and let everything get cooked completely for about 3 hours on medium to high heat.
Meal variations:
when you make a recipe at home as this one, or pizza or barbecue night, you have the freedom to make anything you want, as adding other ingredients or remove something else. So that's why I love cooking and I avoid to eat outside.
You could add any type of veggies that you like as zucchini or mushrooms, spinach and broccoli or anything from your choice.
you could replace the ground beef by ground turkey or Italian sausage or chicken instead.
And for vegetarian people it is possible to use tofu and add veggies to the recipe.
If you like spicy food it's okay to add chili flakes or any spicy tomato sauce.
If you are having a diet it is fine to use cottage cheese it is more healthy, but make sure to know that the texture is going to be different.
Famous Asked Questions:
Is this recipe need high or low heat?
It depends on the time that you have, so for slow cooking you could cook it on low heat for about 6 hours, and for less time cook your lasagne on high heat for 3 hours.
Why it is important to add water?
Water is necessary in this recipe to avoid dry out the pasta and to get sure not stick it in the pot.
What is the number of layers?
Three layers, each one is one inch, but it depends on the size of the pot you have.
Which sauce is good for this recipe?
You could use classico sweet sauce or your homemade tomato sauce.
What is pairing well with this recipe?
- Ceasar salad or any salad you like.
- Crusty bread, or garlic bread.
- Delicious roasted veggies.
How to store and reheat lasagna?
If you had any leftovers store it normally in the fridge for the next day, then heat it in the microwave or the oven.
It will lasts in the fridge for 5 days.
For more lasting freeze it for up to 3 months.
To reheat it place it in the fridge overnight, and at the time of serving reheat it in the oven on 350F for 20 minutes, or in the microwave with some drops of water for 2 minutes.
Enjoy your delicious lasagna.
