Are you looking for great ideas for this week’s dinners? Try a meat lasagna one night. This delicious dish of Italy is a great meal when combined with a lovely salad and some tasty bread.
What’s in one of these meat lasagnas? A wonderful combination of pasta, a sauce with Italian spices, ground beef, ricotta or cottage cheese and mozzarella cheese. All of the ingredients are layered in a pan and baked until the pasta is done and the cheese is melted.
Different from other dishes with pasta lasagna can be baked without cooking the pasta before hand. Simply put the lasagna noodles in with all the wet ingredients as you layer it.It may have to bake a while longer, but it wont change how it tastes.
Another great meat lasagna uses chicken and Alfredo sauce. In addition to the sauce and chicken, vegetables are also layered into the pan.
If you prefer the lasagna without meat choose red or white sauce and substitute vegetables such as zucchini, spinach or even carrots. The veggies give the lasagna a great taste and are much lower in fat than meats are.
If you’re trying to cut back on the carbohydrates, try your traditional lasagna recipe using steamed cabbage instead of the pasta. The flavors are very close and might fool your taste buds.
To bake the lasagna, you need a casserole dish that is at least three to four inches deep. Because of the noodle’s shape, rectangular and square pans work better.
A great thing to do if you do not have a deep dish casserole dish, is to find a deep dish disposable aluminum pan. You can get them at most grocery stores and there great for if you want to freeze a few lasagnas for a few weeks in advance. Well, let’s be honest it’s also easier to clean up.
When someone asks me What Can I Cook With The Ingredients I Have, I answer Meat Lasagna! Quick and easy to make with items that I have in my pantry all the time!