Basic Lasagna Recipe

Ingredients:

Sauce

Ground Beef (cooked & browned with chopped onion & garlic and pan deglazed with 1/4C red wine)
Tomato Sauce
Crushed Tomatoes
Sm. tomato paste & 1 can water
Fresh Garlic
Fresh Basil
Fresh Parsley
Salt & Pepper
1 tsp sugar
2T olive oil

Filling

1 container small curd cottage cheese
1 egg
salt & pepper
1 cup parmesan cheese
fresh parsley
1 clove garlic minced

1 Box lasagna noodles (par-boiled)
Grated mozzarella cheese


Instructions:

Prepare the sauce using the above ingredients, let simmer at least 4 hours,

When ready.  Bring to a raging boil a large pot of salted water.  Add uncooked lasagna noodles and boil for no more than 5-7 minutes.  You want these half way cooked.

While that's boiling, make your filling.

Dain noodles and you are ready to start layering your pan.

Layer in this order:

1.  Put 1/4 C of sauce on the bottom of a 9x12 pan.  Spoon around until bottom is covered.
2.  Put one layer of noodles (3 to 4 noodles depending on how wide your pan is).
3.  Spoon some sauce over noodles.
4.  Sprinkle cheese over the sauce.
5.  Add another layer of noodles
6.  Add sauce
7.  Add cottage cheese mixture
8.  Add Noodles
9.  Add Sauce
10.  Add cheese

Bake covered 35-45 minutes on 350
Bake uncovered 10 minutes
If you would like - broil on low 5 minutes.

Remove from oven and let set at least 15 minutes or longer before cutting into squares.

Basic Lasagna

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