Baked lasagna
Baked lasagna recipe in the pasta category
Recipe ingredients:
- Sauce:
- 3 pounds ripe tomatoes, chopped
- 2 carrots, peeled and chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
- 3 tablespoons tomato puree
- 1 large onion, peeled and chopped
- 3 stalks celery, chopped
- Lasagna:
- 3/4 to 1 pound lasagna noodles
- Butter
- 1/2 pound mozzarella cheese
- 1/4 pound Italian sausage or ground beef, coarsely chopped
- 2 hardboiled eggs, chopped
- 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 cup ricotta or cottage cheese
Recipe method:
- Sauce:
- Put all the ingredients into a large cooking pot. Cover and simmer for about 1 hour. Pass through a sieve.
- Return to the pot and season to your satisfaction. Continue to simmer until sauce has thickened.
- Just before using this sauce, stir in 2 tablespoons of olive oil and 2 tablespoons of butter.
- Brown sausage or beef, then drain.
- Boil lasagna noodles. Drain and put a layer in a well-buttered casserole dish.
- Add a layer of mozzarella cheese, then a layer of sausage or beef and a thin layer of hardboiled egg.
- Sprinkle with grated Parmesan and ricotta or cottage cheese.
- Moisten cheese with some of tomato sauce.
- Continue in layers, finishing with a good thick layer of grated Parmesan.
- Dot with butter and bake at 350 degrees F for about 30 minutes.
- Serve with warm roll of garlic bread.
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