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Savory Sausage Lasagna

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January 10, 2010
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4 Ratings
  • Serves 6-8
Author Notes

This is a great cold weather comfort food. It comes from a standard lasagna recipe, but made some changes to the meat and cheese, and replaced the sugar. —Uncle Ben

What You'll Need
Ingredients
  • 1 pound hot italian sausage
  • 2 cups shredded buffalo mozeralla cheese
  • 2 cups ricotta cheese
  • 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
  • 1 yellow onion, chopped
  • 3 cloves garlic, chopped
  • 4 tablespoons parsley, chopped
  • 1 tablespoon basil leaves, chopped
  • 1 tablespoon oregano leaves, chopped
  • 8 wheat lasagna noodles
  • 14 ounces whole canned tomatoes
  • 14 ounces tomato sauce
  • 1 teaspoon honey
Directions
  1. Cook sausage, onion, and garlic is a skillet until sausage is no longer pink. Drain the juice if you want to be healthy, leave it in if you want more flavor.
  2. Add the basil, 2 tablespoons parsley, honey, whole tomatoes (cut them into inch long pieces with kitchen scissors) and tomato sauce. Simmer uncovered until sauce thickens -- should take 30-45 minutes.
  3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Cook lasagna noodles (it helps to add olive oil to the boiling water).
  4. Mix ricotta cheese with 1/4 cup parmesan cheese, oregano, and 2 tablespoons parsley.
  5. Once sauce is finished, put 1/2 the sauce into a rectangular baking dish (13 x 9 x 2 -- or something close to it). Then layer on 4 noodles. Spread on 1/2 the ricotta cheese mixture on the noodles. Repeat this step again, and put the remaining 1/4 cup of parmesan cheese on top.
  6. Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 30 minutes. Uncover and bake for another 15 minutes. Let stand for 15 minutes before you serve.
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Marie F.
Marie F. July 3, 2015
You have not included the mozzarella in the assembly of this "lasagna" not lasanga.