Pasta. It is a weakness for me. I love it so many ways. If I listed them all you would think you were watching Forest Gump. LOL So, I will save you my list and just jump right to one of my favorites! LASAGNA!
Crock Pot Lasagna
Recipe type: Dinner
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Serves: 8
This is one of my weaknesses! Love Lasagna…especially in the crockpot!
Ingredients
- 1 pound bulk Italian sausage
- 1 medium onion, chopped (1/2 cup)
- 3 cans (15 ounces each) Italian-style tomato sauce
- 2 teaspoons dried basil leaves
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese (8 ounces)
- 1 container (15 ounces) part-skim ricotta cheese
- 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 15 uncooked lasagna noodles
Instructions
- Cook sausage and onion in 10-inch skillet over medium heat 6 to 8 minutes, stirring occasionally, until sausage is no longer pink; drain. Stir in tomato sauce, basil and salt.
- Mix 1 cup of the mozzarella cheese and the ricotta and Parmesan cheeses. (Refrigerate remaining mozzarella cheese while lasagna cooks.)
- Spoon one-fourth of the sausage mixture into 6-quart slow cooker; top with 5 noodles, broken into pieces to fit. Spread with half of the cheese mixture and one-fourth of the sausage mixture. Top with 5 noodles, remaining cheese mixture and one-fourth of the sausage mixture. Top with remaining 5 noodles and remaining sausage mixture.
- Cover and cook on Low heat setting 4 to 6 hours or until noodles are tender.
- Sprinkle top of lasagna with remaining 1 cup mozzarella cheese. Cover and let stand about 10 minutes or until cheese is melted. Cut into pieces.
Notes
This can be made with gluten free lasagna noodles.
About Amanda
I made this a few weeks ago, from a previous post and I really liked it. I did change up a few things, by using ground meat instead of sausage, and also add a handful of those cute mini pepperoni’s to it. I used a big can of spaghetti sauce and a can of manwich to equal up to the tomato sauce noted here and I used a small curd light cottage cheese in place of the ricotta. It was wonderful. My family all voted KEEP THE RECIPE.