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Easy Homemade Lasagna With Meat Sauce
A delicious lasagna that is easy to make. Make this for a crowd or for the family when you are looking for a tasty homemade lasagna. Serve it with salad.
Prep Time 40 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground sausage
- 1.5 pounds lean ground beef
- 2 lb. mozzarella cheese
- 32 oz. ricotta cheese
- 2 jars Ragu Hearty Traditional
- Italian herbs mix
- Dried parsley
- 1 egg
- Parmesan cheese
- Olive oil
- Large Package Lasagna Noodles
Instructions
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Cook your meats until no longer pink. Drain off any extra grease.
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Add your 2 jars of sauce to the meat, put on low/simmer. Stirring occasionally.
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Boil your water
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Mix together your Ricotta mixture: In a large bowl you will make a ricotta cheese mixture. It has 3 cups ricotta cheese, 1 tbsp. dried parsley, 2 tsp. Italian herb mixture, 1/2 cup parmesan cheese and 1 egg. Add all together and stir until mixed. Set to side until needed.
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When water has boiled. Follow directions and cook your noodles. When done drain noodles and rinse with cold water.
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Assemble your lasagna.
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•Layer sauce covering bottom of pan.
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•Layer noodles on top of sauce
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•Add another layer of sauce on top of noodles
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•Add ricotta cheese mixture spooned alternately on noodles with sauce
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•Sprinkle with mozzarella cheese
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•Repeat until done
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•Final layer finish with noodles, sauce mozzarella cheese a sprinkle of Italian herbs.
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•Optional sprinkle with a little parmesan cheese
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Cover your lasagna pans tent style closed at bottoms against pan.
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Bake at 350 degrees until bubbling hot and cheeses are melted. Take out of oven let rest a few minutes. Serve with salad and garlic bread. Bon Appetite!
Recipe Notes
This recipe makes 1- 11 3/4" x 9 3/8" pan and 1-7.5" x 12" pan ( pans were approximately 2" deep ) You can make it in advance up to 2 days. Freeze assembled but, uncooked and well wrapped. I typically don't keep them more than a few months. See Food Safety guidelines for freezing and storage.