Homemade Lasagna

Homemade Lasagna is one of our favorite meals in our home. This is the best, and easiest meals that feeds the entire family. It can be made in a baking dish or in the crock pot, which is perfect for a busy night when you need dinner to be ready.

I really love lasagna because it’s so filling, it feeds the entire family from one dish, and it can be paired with other things like sourdough bread or a healthy salad. This is also a meal everyone in our family will eat, we always have left overs, and usually enough for another dinner.

There are many different ways to make lasagna, but this recipe is different than the traditional way, and gives it the best flavor. To me, this meal is a comfort food that always satisfies our taste buds. It’s so simple and can be thrown together in minutes. You can either layer it in a baking dish, or a crock pot, and then pull it out to bake when your ready, or cook it on low in the crock pot all day until you’re ready for dinner.

Trader Joe’s has the best lasagna noodles that are no boiling, oven ready which makes it so much easier, and you get to skip the time consuming step of pre boiling noodles!

Ingredients

• Lasagna noodles- I love Trader Joe’s lasagna noodles. You just open the box and start layering. It makes it so much easier not to have to boil them.
• Spaghetti sauce- I always try to find one with minimal ingredients and low sodium. Trader Joe’s is another great place for this.
• Cottage Cheese- Daisy has a great cottage cheese that doesn’t have additives in it.
• Mozzarella Cheese- We buy ours in bulk from Azure.
• Cream cheese
• Italian Sausage

How To Make Homemade Lasagna

1. Start by browning the meat. Once browned add the spaghetti sauce and mix together. Set aside.

2. In a baking dish or a crock pot, the steps are the same. Start layering the lasagna. Add enough sauce to cover the bottom of the dish, add noodles, sauce, a dollop of cream cheese, cottage cheese, and a thin layer of mozzarella. Repeat until you get to your last layer on the top, and only add sauce, and mozzarella.

3. If you’re using a crock pot, turn it on low for 8-10 hours. For a baking dish you can cover and place in the fridge until your ready to bake. Bake at 375 for 45 minutes or until its bubbling around the edges.