Whole Wheat Spinach Lasagna Recipes

PERFECT SPINACH LASAGNA

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Heat the oven to 350 F. Lightly grease a 9-by-13-by-2-inch baking dish or lasagna pan .
• In a medium bowl, combine the ricotta cheese with half of the drained and squeezed spinach, half of the grated Parmesan cheese, the egg, garlic powder, and salt. Mix to blend well.
• Mix the remaining half of the drained spinach with the marinara sauce .
• Spread about 1/2 to 1 cup of the marinara-spinach mixture over the bottom of the baking dish, just enough to coat the bottom.
• Top with a layer of noodles.
• Top the noodle layer with about 3/4 cup of the marinara; spread over the noodles.
• With a small spoon, put about one-third of the ricotta mixture over the sauce layer, spacing evenly in small dollops, then sprinkle with about one-quarter of the mozzarella cheese.
• Repeat, making two more layers of the noodles, sauce, ricotta mixture, and mozzarella.
• Top with another layer of noodles, the rest of the sauce, shredded mozzarella, and the remaining half of the grated Parmesan cheese.
• Grease a sheet of foil large enough to fit over the lasagna. Cover the lasagna tightly with the foil, greased side down. If your baking pan is very full, place a foil-lined baking sheet on a lower rack to catch spills.
• Bake the lasagna for about 45 minutes, or until very hot and you can see it is beginning to bubble.
• Remove the foil and bake for 20 to 30 minutes longer, until very hot and the cheese has melted.

SPINACH AND MEAT WHOLE WHEAT LASAGNA

Steps:

• Place lasagna sheets in boiling water to soften slightly. Drain thawed spinach; squeeze some of excess liquid off.
• Brown mince and drain off fat, return to pan add pasta sauce. Simmer for 10-15 minutes.
• Make bechemel sauce by melting butter, adding flour and stirring over med heat for 2 minutes, gradually add milk bringing to boil to thicken. Then add cottage cheese gradually, incorporating into milk mixture and heating through.
• Place layer of lasagna sheets on bottom.
• Place half spinach in layer. Sprinkle with mozzarella cheese.
• Place layer of lasagna sheets.
• Place half of meat mixture in next layer.
• Repeat steps layers, and top with layer of lasagna sheets, bechemel sauce and sprinkle liberally with mozzarella cheese.
• Cook at 180°C for 45 minutes.

WHOLE WHEAT SPINACH LASAGNA

Steps:

• cook noodles.
• mix parmesan cheese, ricotta cheese, egg and chopped parsley.
• brown turkey burger with garlic and onion, mix with marinara sauce, season as necessary.
• layer in 9x13 pan, no cheese on top.
• cook at 350 for 45 mins, add layer of cheese on top, cook additional 10-15 minutes.

WHOLE WHEAT LASAGNA

Steps:

• Brown meat slowly; add next 6 ingredients to meat and simmer uncovered about 30 minutes.
• Cook lasagna noodles about 6 minutes.
• Combine cottage cheese with next five ingredients.
• Place 1/2 noodles in 13x9x2 inch baking dish; spread 1/2 cheese mixture over noodles, add 1/2 mozzarella cheese and 1/2 meat mixture.
• Repeat layers.
• Bake at 375 degrees for 30 minutes.