Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Crockpot Lasagna

Meat Sauce
Alfredo Sauce
1 pkg Oven-ready/no boil lasagna noodles
1 cup lowfat cottage cheese
Shredded mozzarella cheese for topping the lasagna

Meat Sauce:
1 16 oz. can diced tomatoes
2 8 oz. cans tomato sauce
1 6 oz. can tomato paste
1 Tbsp brown sugar
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 Tbsp dried minced onion
2 tsp basil
1 tsp parsley
1/4 tsp dried oregano
1 lb lean ground turkey or beef
3 Tbsp water

Cook meat in skillet until brown, adding onion during the last minute or two. In large bowl mix other ingredients and add meat to sauce when it has browned.

White Sauce:
This is Amy's amazing alfredo recipe from a while back. I am reposting it so everyone doesn't have to go back and find it. Even though this is really easy, you can also use a jar of store-bought alfredo if you are low on time or effort.
2 c. Milk
1/3 c. cream cheese
2 Tbsp flour
1 tsp salt
1 Tbsn butter
Fresh garlic to taste
1 c. grated parmesan

Mix first four ingredients in a blender until smooth. In medium saucepan saute garlic in melted butter. Pour milk mixture into sauce pan and heat until thick and just boiling, stirring constantly
Remove from heat and immediately stir in parmesan cheese. Let the sauce cool slightly, then add cottage cheese to the sauce.

To assemble the lasagna, spread thin layer of sauce on bottom of crockpot. Cover the bottom of the crockpot with one layer of lasagna noodles, breaking up some noodles if necessary. Top noodles with 1/3 of the alfredo-cottage cheese mixture. If you want this to be more cheesy, you can add a thin layer of mozzarella cheese here, but it doesn't really need it. Next layer 1/3 of the tomato-meat sauce. You want to make sure the noodles are completely covered at this point or else they will be very crunchy and not soft.

Repeat layers two more times ending with the tomato meat sauce. Top with mozzarella cheese. Cover and cook on low setting for about 4 hours or until cheese in middle of lasagna is melted and everything is heated through.

I think this recipe will also work fine if you cook it in the oven, and Im sure any other recipe of lasagna would also work in the crockpot if you use the no-boil noodles.

1 comment:

Trent and Kim said...

I just made this and it was pretty good. I would probably add some more parmesan and freshly grated to the white sauce, but it was so good. Cooking it for a while made the red sauce super flavorful. Thanks Lor!!