Easiest Way to Prepare Award-winning Lasagna Casserole

Lasagna Casserole.

Lasagna Casserole

Hey everyone, I hope you're having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, lasagna casserole. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Lasagna Casserole is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It's simple, it's quick, it tastes delicious. They're nice and they look fantastic. Lasagna Casserole is something which I've loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook lasagna casserole using 21 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Lasagna Casserole:

{Make ready of uncooked pasta, shape is your choice. I use elbow mac, rotini, or penne. If you can find mini lasagna noodles go for it, bow tie works good too.
{Get of or so Mozzarella cheese for topping.
{Take of Sauce.
{Make ready of ground meat, personally we like 1/2 beef and 1/2 venison. You could use pork, turkey, sausage, whatever.
{Make ready of olive oil, if your meat lacks fat.
{Get of large onion, diced.
{Make ready of minced garlic.
{Take of Salt and pepper.
{Prepare of dried basil, oregano, and parsley.
{Get of jar of pasta sauce, and a little water to rinse out the jar.
{Make ready of can of tomato paste (optional for more intense tomato flavor).
{Prepare of cooking sherry.
{Prepare of red wine vinegar (cuts the sweetness).
{Take of sugar to bring flavors together.
{Get of Cheese filling layer.
{Get of cottage cheese or ricotta (full fat tastes best).
{Take of eggs.
{Take of parsley.
{Take of pepper (use slightly more if coarse ground).
{Take of grated parmesan.
{Get of shredded Mozzarella cheese.

Steps to make Lasagna Casserole:

Bring large pot of water to boil, salt water and cook noodles to al dente. Drain and set aside..
Brown meat, and as meat is getting close to done add in onion, garlic, salt and pepper. Cook until onions are getting translucent, and add herbs (oregano, parsley, and basil). Then add pasta sauce and tomato paste if using. Stir well together, add the vinegar and sherry. Taste and adjust seasonings as needed, add the sugar, then let simmer together for an hour. Watch bottom of pan that it doesn't scorch..
Heat oven to 375. Put your cheese and two eggs into a bowl, beat together until smooth (important for if you use cottage cheese instead of ricotta, helps smooth out out. Cottage cheese also spreads easier during assembly). Stir in pepper, parsley, and parmesan. Finally mix in Mozzarella cheese..
Once all your components are assembled, spray a 11x16 casserole pan with cooking spray. You will assemble starting with 1/3 of the noodles, 1/3 of the sauce, and 1/2 of cheese mixture. Repeat the layers, and end with last third of noodles topped with sauce. Finally spread 2 cups of Mozzarella cheese over top of the casserole..
Cover with foil, bake for 40 minutes. Remove foil and bake for another 15 minutes, if you want the cheese on top browned and slightly more crispy put under the broiler for a hot minute. Allow to cool for 10 minutes to set up before dishing up. Feed to hungry children and husband!.

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