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Mom’s Easy Lasagna with Cottage Cheese

Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 25 minutes
Servings 10

Ingredients

  • 1 Package Lasagna Noodles Uncooked
  • 1/3 cup Water
  • 24 oz. jar of spaghetti sauce
  • 1 lb. Ground Beef or venison
  • 1 8 oz. Container Cottage Cheese Small Curd
  • 1/3 cup grated parmasean cheese
  • 1 8 oz. Package Shredded Italian Cheese
  • 1 Large Egg
  • 1 tsp. Pepper
  • 1 tsp. Salt
  • 1 tsp. Garlic Salt
  • 1 tsp. oregano

Instructions

  1. Preheat Oven to 375 Degrees

  2. Brown ground beef. Note: I use venison-you can use any 'ground' meat you like
  3. Drain beef, add back to low heat
  4. Stir in spaghetti sauce, water, salt, oregano, pepper and garlic salt to ground beef

  5. Allow sauce mixture to simmer for 5-10 minutes, slowly stirring

  6. Add 1/3 of sauce mixture to greased 9x13" pan

  7. Add layer of lasagna noodles on top of sauce mixture, making sure to cover edges

    Note: you may have to break some noodles in half to make them fit

  8. Whisk 1 egg and parmasean cheese into cottage cheese

  9. Add 1/2 of cottage cheese/egg mixture as next layer

  10. Add 1/3 of sauce mixture

  11. Add another layer of lasagna noodles on top

  12. Add remainder of cottage cheese/egg mixture

  13. Add remainder of sauce mixture, spreading it evenly with a spoon

  14. Top with shredded italian cheese mixture

  15. Cover pan with foil
  16. Bake at 375 degrees for 45 minutes.

  17. Remove pan from oven, remove foil
  18. Bake at 375 degrees, uncovered for 10-15 minutes.

  19. Remove from oven, let rest for approximately 10 minutes. Cut and serve!

Recipe Notes

You can also make your sauce mixture in the slow cooker. Simply cook your meat in the slow cooker (read my tutorial on that here), add in your sauce and spices.