Ingredients: |
Ingredients: 1 med onion, chopped
1 lb. ground beef
1 lb. pork or Italian sausage
1 T. garlic, chopped or minced (mine comes from a jar...love it!)
1 28 oz. jar Spaghetti Sauce (I like Ragu Chunky Garden Style)
2 cans pizza sauce (Contadina is great!)
1 16 oz. container small curd cottage cheese
3 eggs
1 T. parsley (dried or fresh)
1 c. Parmesan cheese
2 8 oz boxes oven-ready lasagna noodles
8 cups Mozzarella cheese
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Directions: |
Directions:In Dutch oven or large saucepan brown ground beef and pork sausage, drain well. Return to pan and add chopped onion and garlic. Cover and cook 5 minutes until onion softens.
Add spaghetti sauce and pizza sauces. Simmer on low 30 minutes to blend flavors.
In separate bowl, stir together cottage cheese, eggs, Parmesan and parsley.
Set up your assembly line: sauce mix, (2) 9x13 pans, noodles, cottage cheese mix, Mozza cheese. Give pans a light spray of Pam. You're going to assemble both pans at once, so take a potty or wine break now if you need one.
In each pan, put a light layer of sauce, kind of avoiding the meat for this layer. Top with 3 noodles, crosswise in pan. They should not touch each other or sides of pan. Relax, they will grow when they bake.
Top with a layer of sauce, spreading over noodles with back of giant serving spoon. Don't neglect the edges. Top this layer with small globs of cottage cheese mixture (using half the mixture). Top this with Mozzarella cheese.
Begin your next layer with noodles, and repeat again. Your end result will be 3 layers of noodles. When your 3rd layer of noodles goes on, it is topped with the rest of the sauce, and the rest of the mozza cheese. The cottage cheese mixture is only on layer 1 and layer 2.
If at any point you are panicking that you will run out of sauce, dump another can of pizza sauce or just tomato sauce into your sauce mix and stir it in. No one will know.
Cover both pans with foil and bake at 350 degrees
for 30 minutes. Remove foil and bake another 15 minutes till golden. Let sit 15 minutes before cutting.
Plan B: Bake one pan, and freeze or give away the second pan without baking. Make sure you provide baking instructions with the pan you give away.
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