Crockpot Lasagne
Ingredients you'll need. (recipe at end of post)
Cook Italian sausage and onion in skillet
Stir in tomato sauce, basil and salt.
Mix Ricotta, Parmesan, and 1 cup of mozzarella cheese together in bowl
Put some about 1/4 of sausage mixture into 6qt slow cooker, top with 5 noodles broken into pieces to fit
Spread with half of cheese mixture and 1/4 of sausage mixture. Than 5 more noodles, remaining cheese mixture and 1/4 mixture.
Top with 5 remaining noodles and remaining saugage mixture
Cover and cook on low heat 4-6 hrs or until noodles are tender. Sprinkle top of lasagne with remaining 1 cup mozarella cheese.
Crockpot Lasagne
1 pound bulk Italian sausage
1 medium onion chopped
3 15 oz cans Italian-style tomato sauce **
2 tsp. dried basil
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese. (8oz)
1 container (15oz) part-skim ricotta cheese**
1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
15 uncooked Lasagne noodles
Cook sausage and onion in skillet over medium heat about 6-8 min, stirring occasionally, until sausage is no longer pink.
Stir in tomato sauce, basil, and salt
Mix ricotta cheese ( I always add about 3/4 cup of cottage cheese too, cause I love it) Parmesan, and 1 cup of mozzarella cheese together in a bowl.
(refrigerate remaning mozzarella cheese while lasagne cooks)
Spoon 1/4 of the sausage mixture into 6qt slow cooker, top with 5 noodles broken into pieces to fit.
Spread half of the cheese mixture and than another 1/4 of the sausage mixture
Top with 5 noodles, remaining cheese mixture and 1/4 of sausage mixture
Top with renaining 5 noodles and remaining sausage mixture.
Cover and cook on low heat setting for 4-6 hours or until noodles are tender. Sprinkle top of lasagne with remaining mozarella.
Cover and let stand about 10 min or until cheese is melted...ENJOY!
**Here are some of my little notes:
_I usually spray my slow cooker lightly with pam.
_In my crock pot it is always ready at 4 hrs. If you go a lot longer than that, the bottom and sides can get over cooked. I'm sure different crock pots will vary.
_I like to add cottage cheese to my ricotta. Just because it is my favorite and I love the texture in it
_I've had trouble finding italian style tomato sauce sometimes, so I just add Italian seasoning to regular tomato sauce. Prob at least 1-2 tsp or so.
