An Easy Recipe

If you are looking for a great idea for one of your dinners this week, why not consider meat lasagna. This tasty Italian dish, when combined with hearty bread and a salad makes a great meal.

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.

Unlike other pasta dishes, lasagna can be made using uncooked pasta. The wide lasagna noodles can simply be layered in the pan with all the wet ingredients. Baking may take a little longer, but you will never know that they were not cooked beforehand.

An alternative meat lasagna uses chicken, Alfredo sauce and also has vegetables in the layers of 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’re trying to cut back on the carbohydrates, try your traditional lasagna recipe using steamed cabbage instead of the pasta. The flavors are very close and might 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.

If you are lacking the deep dish casserole dish, you should consider getting an aluminum pan that is disposable. You can find them at any of the grocery stores in your area.They also make it so that you can freeze some ahead of time for a dinner next week. Plus, they do make clean-up time a lot easier.

On days when someone asks me What Can I Cook With The Ingredients I Have, I answer Meat Lasagna! Fast to make with items that I have in my pantry all the time!

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