Ricotta Lasagne
Ingredients
- 1 lb (450 g) sweet Italian sausage
- ½ lb (230 g) minced (ground) beef
- ½ onion, chopped fine
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- 3½ tbsp sugar
- 1 tbsp salt
- 1½ tsp dried basil
- ½ tsp fennel seed
- ¼ tsp black pepper
- ¼ cup chopped parsley, divided
- 4 cups (1 kg / 2.2 lb) canned whole tomatoes, undrained, halved, seeds removed
- 12 oz (340 g) tomato paste
- ½ cup (125 ml / 4.2 oz) water
- ½ tbsp salt
- 2 cups (600 g / 1.3 lb) ricotta cheese
- 1 egg
- 16 oz (450 g) lasagna pasta
- 16 oz (450 g) mozzarella cheese, thinly sliced (a wire cutter is nice for semi-soft cheeses like this)
- about 3 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese
Steps
- Remove sausage casings. Break sausage into small bits.
- Sauté sausage, ground beef, onion and garlic in 5-quart (4.7 L) saucepan or Dutch oven over medium heat until meat is browned.
- Add sugar, 1 tablespoon salt, basil, fennel, pepper and half the parsley. Mix well.
- Add tomatoes, tomato paste and water; mash tomatoes a bit. Bring to boil. Reduce heat. Simmer covered, stirring occasionally, 1½ hours.
- Preheat oven to 275 F.
- Cook and drain pasta.
- Mix ricotta, egg, ½ teaspoon salt and remaining parsley in medium bowl.
- Layer in roasting pan, bottom to top: sauce (about 1½ cups / 375 g / 13.2 oz); pasta, overlapping slightly; ½ ricotta mixture; ⅓ mozzarella.
- Continue: sauce (about 1½ cups / 375 g / 13.2 oz); grated Parmesan sprinkled, not covering sauce entirely; pasta; remaining ricotta; ⅓ mozzarella.
- Finish: remaining sauce; sprinkled Parmesan; remaining mozzarella.
- Cover with foil. Bake 30 min covered, then 25 min uncovered, or until bubbly and lightly browned.
- Cool at least 20 min before serving.
Notes from the original
- Uncooked lasagnas freeze very well so the extra work can be done well in advance. You can make several batches at a time and freeze the extras to thaw out and cook later.
Source. Adapted from “Cookbook:Ricotta Lasagne” by Wikibooks contributors, revision of 2025-12-03, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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