Are you looking for great ideas for this week's dinners? Try a meat lasagna one night. This delicious dish of Italy is a great meal when combined with a lovely salad and some tasty bread.
Meat lasagna is a combination of good pasta sauce, ground beef, mozzarella cheese, cottage or ricotta cheese and Italian spices. Each of the ingredients is layered in a pan and the lasagna is cooked until the cheese is melted and bubbly.
The difference in lasagna that makes it unique from other pasta dishes, is the fact that you don't have to cook the pasta before baking. The lasagna noodles can simply be layered along with the wet ingredients. It may take a little longer to bake, but your family need never know that the pasta wasn't cooked first.
Another great meat lasagna uses chicken and Alfredo sauce. In addition to the sauce and chicken, vegetables are also layered into the pan.
Another way you could do lasagna, is with a red or white sauce using vegetables as a substitute for the meat. You could use zucchini, carrots and spinach as your veggies. It is a much healthier and lower fat chose, but it still tastes fabulous.
If you are craving lasagna but are cutting the carbohydrates, try using your traditional lasagna recipe but substitute steamed cabbage leaves for the lasagna noodles. The flavor of this casserole is reminiscent of traditional lasagna and may fool your taste buds.
In order to cook lasagna, you will need a deep dish casserole dish that is at least three inches deep. Due to the shape of the noodles, square or rectangular pans work best.
A great thing to do if you do not have a deep dish casserole dish, is to find a deep dish disposable aluminum pan. You can get them at most grocery stores and there great for if you want to freeze a few lasagnas for a few weeks in advance. Well, let's be honest it's also easier to clean up.
Meat lasagna is a combination of good pasta sauce, ground beef, mozzarella cheese, cottage or ricotta cheese and Italian spices. Each of the ingredients is layered in a pan and the lasagna is cooked until the cheese is melted and bubbly.
The difference in lasagna that makes it unique from other pasta dishes, is the fact that you don't have to cook the pasta before baking. The lasagna noodles can simply be layered along with the wet ingredients. It may take a little longer to bake, but your family need never know that the pasta wasn't cooked first.
Another great meat lasagna uses chicken and Alfredo sauce. In addition to the sauce and chicken, vegetables are also layered into the pan.
Another way you could do lasagna, is with a red or white sauce using vegetables as a substitute for the meat. You could use zucchini, carrots and spinach as your veggies. It is a much healthier and lower fat chose, but it still tastes fabulous.
If you are craving lasagna but are cutting the carbohydrates, try using your traditional lasagna recipe but substitute steamed cabbage leaves for the lasagna noodles. The flavor of this casserole is reminiscent of traditional lasagna and may fool your taste buds.
In order to cook lasagna, you will need a deep dish casserole dish that is at least three inches deep. Due to the shape of the noodles, square or rectangular pans work best.
A great thing to do if you do not have a deep dish casserole dish, is to find a deep dish disposable aluminum pan. You can get them at most grocery stores and there great for if you want to freeze a few lasagnas for a few weeks in advance. Well, let's be honest it's also easier to clean up.
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On days when someone asks me What Can I Cook With The Ingredients I Have, I tell them Meat Lasagna! Fast and easy to make with items that I have in my pantry all the time!
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