Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Ultimate Lasagna Casserole

Lasagna Casserole.

Hello everybody, it's Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we're going to prepare a distinctive dish, lasagna casserole. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Lasagna Casserole is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It's simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They're fine and they look wonderful. Lasagna Casserole is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have lasagna casserole using 21 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Lasagna Casserole:

1. {Make ready of uncooked pasta, shape is your choice. I use elbow mac, rotini, or penne. If you can find mini lasagna noodles go for it, bow tie works good too.
2. {Take of or so Mozzarella cheese for topping.
3. {Take of Sauce.
4. {Prepare of ground meat, personally we like 1/2 beef and 1/2 venison. You could use pork, turkey, sausage, whatever.
5. {Get of olive oil, if your meat lacks fat.
6. {Take of large onion, diced.
7. {Prepare of minced garlic.
8. {Prepare of Salt and pepper.
9. {Get of dried basil, oregano, and parsley.
10. {Take of jar of pasta sauce, and a little water to rinse out the jar.
11. {Make ready of can of tomato paste (optional for more intense tomato flavor).
12. {Take of cooking sherry.
13. {Make ready of red wine vinegar (cuts the sweetness).
14. {Prepare of sugar to bring flavors together.
15. {Take of Cheese filling layer.
16. {Get of cottage cheese or ricotta (full fat tastes best).
17. {Make ready of eggs.
18. {Prepare of parsley.
19. {Take of pepper (use slightly more if coarse ground).
20. {Get of grated parmesan.
21. {Get of shredded Mozzarella cheese.

Instructions to make Lasagna Casserole:

1. Bring large pot of water to boil, salt water and cook noodles to al dente. Drain and set aside..
2. Brown meat, and as meat is getting close to done add in onion, garlic, salt and pepper. Cook until onions are getting translucent, and add herbs (oregano, parsley, and basil). Then add pasta sauce and tomato paste if using. Stir well together, add the vinegar and sherry. Taste and adjust seasonings as needed, add the sugar, then let simmer together for an hour. Watch bottom of pan that it doesn't scorch..
3. Heat oven to 375. Put your cheese and two eggs into a bowl, beat together until smooth (important for if you use cottage cheese instead of ricotta, helps smooth out out. Cottage cheese also spreads easier during assembly). Stir in pepper, parsley, and parmesan. Finally mix in Mozzarella cheese..
4. Once all your components are assembled, spray a 11x16 casserole pan with cooking spray. You will assemble starting with 1/3 of the noodles, 1/3 of the sauce, and 1/2 of cheese mixture. Repeat the layers, and end with last third of noodles topped with sauce. Finally spread 2 cups of Mozzarella cheese over top of the casserole..
5. Cover with foil, bake for 40 minutes. Remove foil and bake for another 15 minutes, if you want the cheese on top browned and slightly more crispy put under the broiler for a hot minute. Allow to cool for 10 minutes to set up before dishing up. Feed to hungry children and husband!.

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