Have A Meat Lasagna For A Great Meal

If you are looking for a great idea for one of your dinners this week, why not consider meat lasagna. This tasty Italian dish, when combined with hearty bread and a salad makes a great meal.

Meat lasagna is a combination of good pasta sauce, ground beef, mozzarella cheese, cottage or ricotta cheese and Italian spices. Each of the ingredients is layered in a pan and the lasagna is cooked until the cheese is melted and bubbly.

Unlike other pasta dishes, lasagna can be made using uncooked pasta. The wide lasagna noodles can simply be layered in the pan with all the wet ingredients. Baking may take a little longer, but you will never know that they were not cooked beforehand.

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 are a vegetarian, the lasagna could be made with veggies instead of meat. You could substitute spinach, zucchini and even carrots. Then just make your preference of sauce, whether it be red or white. This alternative is just as great tasting and much healthier than meat.

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.

For baking that lasagna you chose, you are going to need a casserole dish that is about three inches deep. You should also use a square or rectangular pan, due to the shape of the noodles.

If you do not have the deep dish pan, then you will find disposable aluminum lasagna pans at the grocery store. These pans are great for freezing a second lasagna for use at a later date. In addition, they make clean up a breeze.

When someone asks me what can I cook with the ingredients I have, I tell them Meat Lasagna! Quick to make with items that I have in my pantry all the time!