Lasagna Recipe

This is delicious and definitely has become my go-to lasagna recipe over the past couple of years. I have made this several times and will say that you definitely don't need both the ricotta AND cottage cheese, you can choose one or the other. I don't pre-cook the noodles - they go in raw and always come out cooked perfectly - and I buy regular lasagna noodles, not the weird oven ready ones. This saves a bunch of extra time. The dish gives us leftovers for days. TIP: take the extra time to shred your own cheese. Don't buy the pre-shredded stuff, it has bad stuff added to it.

This recipe was a fine, standard lasagna. Flavor wise, it wasn't anything special. I found it to be just as good as the lasagna's you'd buy from the freezer section. Which may not sound like a compliment, but it isn't a bad thing imo. I'll keep this recipe for now, however, I'd like a lasagna recipe that tastes a bit more special than this. Especially since lasagna is a time-consuming dish to make. Love how many portions this makes though. We had dinner for about 3 nights!

Modifications - To ricotta mixture: 2 eggs rather than 1, added ~ 1/2 cup Parmesan, didn’t use any cottage cheese For noodles: Used 4 in each layer instead of 3 (total 12 not 9)

Best lasagna I’ve ever made. I doubled the sauce recipe because I wanted to add a lb of hot Italian sausage. I used prob around 2/3 of sauce for lasagna and froze the rest. I wanted extra sauce for the lasagna because I knew I was going to use oven ready lasagna (great value, Walmart). I’m glad I did. For the marinara I just used 2 28oz bottles of organic strained tomatoes. I added extra thyme and parsley and garlic. Plus crushed red pepper. For the “mozzeralla”, I used 4c shredded blend of Italian cheeses ( mozzarella, Asiago and others). It was very good. I was concerned the lasagna would be watery or soggy because of strained tomato choice but it was perfect. I used organic small curd cottage cheese I found at grocery outlet and a whole milk ricotta from Walmart. It was good but I’m curious to know what it would be like with only cottage cheese. The texture of the cheese mixture was like a paste. It wasn’t bad tho. I used HUE “chillable red” wine from grocery outlet. It is VERY sweet, tasted like grape juice. Worked well for the sauce.

Everyone ate this. Salt with cheese needed

I love my Natasha's Kitchen recipes, but this is one of the best. It's a staple at my house, and it's arguably even better as leftovers.

One of our favorite things Soo good and plenty of leftovers

I wish I would have doubled the amount of sauce. I also used no boil lasagna noodles from whole foods and that was so easy!