MAKES: 12 servings
Ingredients
- 1 pound hamburger
- 3/4 pound bulk pork sausage
- 3 cans (8 ounces each) tomato sauce
- 2 cans (6 ounces each) tomato paste
- 2 garlic clove cloves, minced
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1/2 to at least one teaspoon salt
- 1/4 to at least oneOr2 teaspoon pepper
- 3 large eggs
- 3 tablespoons minced fresh parsley
- 3 cups (24 ounces) 4% small-curd cottage type cheese
- 1 carton (8 ounces) ricotta cheese
- 1/2 cup grated Mozzarella dairy product
- 9 lasagna noodles, cooked and drained
- 6 slices provolone cheese (about 6 ounces)
- 3 cups shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese, divided
Directions
- Inside a large skillet over medium heat, prepare and crumble beef and sausage until no more pink drain. Add next seven ingredients. Provide a boil. Reduce heat simmer, uncovered, one hour, stirring from time to time. Adjust seasoning with a lot more pepper and salt, if preferred.
- Meanwhile, inside a large bowl, gently beat eggs. Add parsley stir in cottage type cheese, ricotta and Mozzarella dairy product.
- Preheat oven to 375. Spread 1 cup meat sauce within an ungreased 13x9-in. baking dish. Layer with three noodles, provolone cheese, 2 cups cottage type cheese mixture, 1 cup mozzarella, three noodles, 2 cups meat sauce, remaining cottage type cheese mixture and 1 cup mozzarella. Top with remaining noodles, meat sauce and mozzarella (dish is going to be full).
- Cover bake 50 minutes. Uncover bake until heated through, twenty minutes. Let stand fifteen minutes before cutting. Yield: 12 servings.
Initially printed as Traditional Lasagna in Taste of Home April/May 2000, p25