{"id":1021,"date":"2021-01-26T23:14:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T06:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2021-12-29T23:22:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T06:22:08","slug":"easy-lasagna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2021\/01\/26\/easy-lasagna\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Lasagna"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Typical lasagna recipes are a mystery to me. Why do they have you making so many layers, and in a 13&#215;19 baking&nbsp;dish? That sounds like guaranteed overflow. I always use my roomy 10&#215;15 dish and it&#8217;s stress-free.<br>I think my lasagna recipe is sort of a compromise between Project Lasagna and Costco Lasagna. It&#8217;s flexible to move closer to either end of that spectrum &#8211; take&nbsp;more shortcuts if need be, or a put in&nbsp;bit more effort to bring it into from-scratch territory.<br>I am blessed by the fact that my kids will eat zucchini. My daughter will gobble it cooked on its own, but my son asks for seconds of my lower-carb lasagna. It&#8217;s not the prettiest version, but it&#8217;s easy enough to pull off on a weeknight, and yummy enough for the whole family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201230_181425-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Lasagna\" class=\"wp-image-1022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201230_181425-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201230_181425-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201230_181425-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201230_181425-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201230_181425.jpg 1778w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Serves 6-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>3\/4 lb bulk&nbsp;Italian sausage<\/li><li>8 oz mushrooms, sliced<\/li><li>26 oz jar marinara sauce<\/li><li>8 oz can tomato sauce (optional, if using a larger pan)<\/li><li>6-8 no-boil lasagna noodles (depending on the size of your baking dish)<\/li><li>1 egg<\/li><li>15 oz tub ricotta<\/li><li>Fresh or dried herbs<\/li><li>Salt and pepper<\/li><li>2-3 medium zucchinis<\/li><li>8-12 oz pre-shredded mozzarella<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Instructions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a large saucepan, cook sausage until no longer pink, then add mushrooms and a pinch of salt. Cook, stirring occasionally, until mushrooms are softened. Stir in jar&nbsp;and can of&nbsp;sauce. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Remove from heat and set aside.&nbsp;In a medium bowl, beat egg. Stir in ricotta, 1\/2 tsp each dried&nbsp;oregano and or basil; several tablespoons of minced fresh herbs if you have them! Also 1\/4 tsp salt, and fresh-ground pepper.&nbsp;Slice zucchini into thin rounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preheat oven to 400. Grease your baking dish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Layers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Sauce (a generous cupful)<\/li><li>Noodles (3 or 4)<\/li><li>Half&nbsp;of ricotta mixture<\/li><li>Zucchini: neatly make a single layer of rounds<\/li><li>Half&nbsp;of mozzarella<\/li><li>Sauce (about 2 cups)<\/li><li>Noodles (3 or&nbsp;4)<\/li><li>Remining ricotta mixture<\/li><li>Zucchini<\/li><li>Remaining sauce<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Cover with foil. Bake at 400 for 35 mins. Remove foil, add the remaining mozzarella, bake for 10 more minutes. Let rest 5-10 mins before serving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My lasagna recipe is sort of a compromise between Project Lasagna and Costco Lasagna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[89,122,35,88,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1552,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/1552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}