Easy Peasy No-Boil Lasagna

One of my favorite dishes in the whole wide world is homemade lasagna. I’ve had it done expertly and I’ve had it done not so much. Obviously I choose expertly which is why I don’t often eat it when out at Italian restaurants, I’m a bit of a lasagna snob. That said, there is a restaurant in San Francisco, The Sausage Factory, in the Castro district of the city, that has a house special lasagna that is to die for … I order it every time we go and we’ve been known to get an order to go, it’s that good.

Better get back on track here. If you want a really delicious and really easy lasagna, we’re talking a mid-week family friendly dish, then this is for you. The key secret is the no-boil noodles, saves you time and mess, it also uses jarred spaghetti or pasta sauce, your favorite; all you have to do is a little mixing and assembling. Then pop that puppy into the oven and you are good to go do something else for an hour; I made a salad and watched some TV … rough life.

I am basing this recipe off of the fact that I had square no-boil lasagna noodles. At our local year round farmers market a while back they did a giveaway of lasagna kits (noodles and square baking pan) if you spent over $30, we came home that night and made two lasagnas with enough leftover for me to make one more another time. This was the time. What you want to do is have a layer of noodles that spans across your baking dish, could be square could be rectangle. Go with what you can find in the pasta aisle at your local grocery store.

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Easy Peasy No-Boil Lasagna
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Recipe type: Entree
Cuisine: Italian
Serves: 4-6
 
Ingredients
  • 1 box no-boil lasagna noodles
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 - 15 ounce container ricotta cheese
  • 2 tbsp dried basil
  • 1 tbsp dried oregano
  • 2 tsp granulated salt
  • 4 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
  • ½ cup parmesan cheese
  • 1 lb ground beef or 1 lb Italian sausage, browned
  • 1 - 24 oz jar spaghetti or pasta sauce
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375.
  2. In a large bowl, combine eggs, ricotta cheese, basil, oregano, and salt. Add and two cups of the mozzarella cheese and parmesan, mix well. Set aside.
  3. In a baking dish, spread 1 cup of sauce on bottom of dish.
  4. Layer in the order, uncooked lasagna noodles (they can overlap), then ⅓ part of the ricotta cheese mixture, half the browned meat, 1 cup mozzarella cheese, and 1 cup of spaghetti sauce.
  5. Next layer, uncooked lasagna noodles, ⅓ part of the ricotta cheese mixture, and 1½ Cups sauce.
  6. Next layer, uncooked lasagna noodles, remaining ricotta mixture and remained meat, 1 cup of sauce.
  7. For top layer, rest of uncooked lasagna noodles, remaining sauce, and remaining 1 cup mozzarella.
  8. When layering, you want even distribution of ingredients between layers.
  9. Bake covered with foil for 50-60 minutes.
  10. Uncover and continue cooking until all the cheese is melted on the top (about 5 minutes).
  11. Let stand 15 minutes before serving.