Our Favorite No Boil Lasagna Recipes

OUR FAVORITE NO BOIL LASAGNA

Steps:

• Saute meat, onion, and garlic salt with a small amount of salt. Drain.
• Add spaghetti sauce, bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer while assembling cheese mixture.
• In a large bowl combine ricotta, Romano, eggs. Mix well.
• Spray a 9x13 inch baking dish lightly with nonstick spray.
• Spread about 1 cup of meat/sauce mixture in the bottom of dish. Top with 3 or 4 strips uncooked lasagna noodles- however many will fit in a single layer.
• Cover with 1/3 the meat/sauce mixture then 1/3 the cheese/egg mixture, then 1/3 the shredded Mozzarella.
• Repeat layers of uncooked noodles, meat/sauce, cheese/egg mixtures and Mozzarella, ending with the 3rd layer of Mozzarella on top.
• Sprinkle with chopped parsley.
• Cover tightly, bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.
• Let stand covered 15 minutes before serving.

NEW FAMILY NO-BOIL LASAGNA

Steps:

• Pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees.
• Brown the sausage and beef together in a large sauce pan.
• Add tomatoes (including their juice), marinara, seasoning, and pepper. Use the water to rinse your marinara jar and then add it to the pot. The extra liquid will help the no-boil noodles cook thoroughly.
• If you have a rind from your Parmesan, toss that in the sauce to add flavor. Just don't forget to take it out before you build your lasagna!
• Let the sauce simmer while you prep the rest of the ingredients.
• Mix the ricotta, basil, eggs, pepper, salt and Parmesan in a bowl. Set aside.
• Slice the fresh mozzarella. You want slices about 1/4" thick.
• To build the lasagnas, you will need 2 9x13 pans.
• Put about a cup of sauce in the bottom of the pans.
• Place a layer of lasagna noodles over the sauce, then cover with more sauce.
• Next layer 1/4 of the ricotta mixture in each pan.
• Lay about 1/6 of the mozzarella over the ricotta in each pan.
• Repeat another set of layers. Noodles, sauce, the rest of the ricotta, mozzarella. Then another layer of noodles.
• Cover the last layer of noodles with sauce, then layer on the remaining mozzarella.
• Cover the pans with foil and bake for 45 minutes.
• If you are freezing or refrigerating to bake later, do so after the 45 min bake.
• If you are eating right away, bake another 15 minutes uncovered to brown up the top.
• Remove the pans from the oven and let them cool for 15-20 minutes before serving.

OUR FAVORITE LASAGNA WITH SAUSAGE, SPINACH, AND THREE CHEESES

Steps:

• Preparation:
• Position the rack in the upper third of the oven and preheat to 375°F.
• Make the sauce:
• In a large pot over medium-high heat, heat the oil. Add the sausage, onion and 3/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper; cook, breaking up sausage with a wooden spoon, until browned and cooked through, 8 to 10 minutes. Reduce heat to medium and add garlic, red-pepper flakes, and tomato paste; cook, stirring often, until fragrant, 1 to 2 minutes more. Add tomatoes (along with their juice) and oregano; bring to a simmer, and cook, breaking up the tomatoes with a wooden spoon until in small pieces, about 5 minutes. Taste and adjust seasoning, adding more red-pepper flakes if desired.
• Make the filling:
• In the bowl of a food processor, combine all of the filling ingredients and process until mostly smooth.
• Assemble the lasagna:
• Squeeze the spinach in a paper towel or clean dishcloth until very dry. Transfer to a bowl and season with a pinch of salt.
• Coat baking dish with cooking spray and spread the bottom with 2 cups sauce. Top with a layer of three noodles, then a third of the ricotta mixture (about 1 1/3 cups), and a third of the spinach (about 2/3 cup). Sprinkle with 1 cup grated mozzarella.
• Repeat twice more, skipping the mozzarella on the third layer. Top the lasagna with the remaining sauce. Sprinkle the remaining 2 cups mozzarella in clusters so some of the sauce peeks through.
• Place the baking pan on a rimmed baking sheet. Lightly spray a piece of foil with cooking spray, cover the lasagna, and bake for 45 minutes. Remove the foil and continue baking until lightly browned and bubbly, about 20 minutes more. Let cool at least 10 minutes before serving.
• DO AHEAD: The sauce can be prepared up to 2 days in advance and refrigerated. The filling can be prepared up to 1 day in advance and refrigerated.

NO BOIL LASAGNA

Steps:

• Brown meat, drain all but 2 T.
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• Add onion, salt& oregano.
• Cook 5 minutes.
• Stir in spaghettii sauce and tomatoes& heat through.
• Spoon 1/3 meat mixture into 9x13 pan.
• Cover w/ a single layer of uncooked noodles.
• Spread another 1/3 meat mixture onton the noodles.
• Add cottage cheese, half mozzarella cheese& the Parmesan cheese.
• Arrange a second layer of noodles on top.
• Spoon remaining meat onto the noodles.
• Top w/ remaining mozzarella cheese.
• Bake covered at 375 for 1 hour.
• Remove cover& bake an additional 10 minutes, or until cheese is melted& golden brown.
• Let stand 10 minutes before serving.

SOUTHERN NO BOIL LASAGNA

Steps:

• Mix all the sauce ingredients together.
• Mix all the filling ingredients together.
• Layer the dry noodles, sauce and filling (three layers) in a greased baking dish (9"x13") starting and ending with sauce and leaving space around the edges of the noodles for expansion and for the remaining sauce (the sauce should be very soupy because the excess liquid will be absorbed by the noodles).
• Top with additional Parmesan cheese and bake about ninety (90) minutes (I bake it for one hour covered and the last half hour uncovered) at 325°F or until bubbly in the center.