the traditional quinoa dish with broccoli and cheddar cheese.
| Prep Time: | 45 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr 45 mins |
| Total Time: | 2 hrs 30 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 1 – 9×13 inch lasagna |
Ingredients
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 (6 ounce) cans tomato paste
- 1 (14.5 ounce) can crushed tomatoes
- 2 cups water
- 1 tablespoon dried oregano
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 2 teaspoons salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon white sugar
- 12 ounces cottage cheese
- ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 egg
- 9 lasagna noodles
- 1 pound shredded mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- In a large pot over medium heat, cook beef until brown. Drain off all fat. Add onion and cook until translucent. Add tomato paste, crushed tomatoes, water, oregano, garlic powder, salt, pepper, and sugar. Stir until combined and cook over medium heat until boiling. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 1 hour.
- While sauce is simmering, blend cottage cheese, Parmesan cheese, and egg until smooth. Set aside.
- Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Spread 1 cup of sauce in the bottom of a 9×13-inch baking dish. Cover sauce with 3 noodles. Cover noodles with 1/3 of the remaining sauce. Top with 1/2 of the mozzarella. Place another layer of noodles and one of sauce over the mozzarella; top that with the cottage cheese mixture. Top with remaining 3 noodles and remaining sauce.
- Bake in preheated oven 30 minutes. Sprinkle remaining mozzarella on top and bake 15 minutes more, until golden and bubbly.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 494 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 38 g |
| Cholesterol | 105 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 4 g |
| Protein | 38 g |
| Saturated Fat | 11 g |
| Sodium | 1626 mg |
| Sugars | 9 g |
| Fat | 22 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
My go to lasagna recipe now. I use some sausage with the hamburger to get a little stronger flavor.
I use ricotta but it’s requested by my kids all the time
I love this recipe. It is my go to favorite. Tasty lasagna. Just add Caesar salad and voila dinner is ready.
Use Ricotta cheese instead of cottage cheese. It is much smoother and creamier than cottage cheese.
This recipe was fantastic! It was easy to follow, and my family enjoyed it! The only change I made was adding parsley and thyme because I didn’t have oregano. Other than that, it was excellent. Will definitely make again!
I’ve used this recipe probably 5 times, always to rave reviews. Great instructions simple to prepare and wonderfully tasty! Reminds me why lasagna is my favourite food. Yummy
I have been making this lasagna for 15 years and it is a family favorite! Not only does it appear at our family functions, It has made it’s appearance on door steps for those who had a baby or have lost a loved one. It is labor intensive but so worth it. While making it – just double up and make one for the freezer too. You get an extra meal for just a few more minutes work.
Absolutely amazing!
This is now my family’s lasagna that “mama always makes”. It is our tradition. My mother in law shared it with me years ago and I have never changed one step in the process. The recipe never fails! Thank you for our Italian family meal that has now been shared for generations.
Delicious!!! The family loved every last bite!
I made it true to the recipe, my family adored it, All had second helpings so will be in my. Save and make diary, I recommend this, so tasty.
Next time I will add less salt and use pasta sauce instead of crushed tomatoes and tomato paste to shorten the prep time of the sauce as it didn’t taste that different to me from scratch than the other lasagnas I made with pasta sauce. Good recipe overall but just way too long of a cooking time for lasagna that to me tastes similar to others I’ve made in half the time.
This is the best lasagna recipe I’ve found. My autistic son likes 3 dishes I cook and this is one of them. I sometimes substitute ricotta for the cottage cheese and I add chopped spinach to it to trick both of my children into eating a green vegetable. I never use egg because I don’t like eggs and with the spinach it holds together fine. It’s delicious and I recommend.
my 1st time making lasagna,but i have been cooking since a boy.this turned out perfect! made it as directed just added mushrooms and italian sausage w hamburger only change. easier than i thought it would be, very tasty also. i might add that my long time girl friend always made this that is why i never had. will be doing this more often. thanks
I made the recipe as written except I put the onion in while browning the beef. Easy and delicious.
I replaced the water with more sauce and it was AMAZING! And the cottage cheese DOES work. It was a great way to use up cottage cheese in my fridge that I found on clearance.
Excellent recipe! A keeper, thank you Linda! This was only my second attempt at making lasagna & this time it turned out great! I did use no boil lasagna noodles, because that’s all I could get delivered, so I baked according to the package, I was worried my noodles wouldn’t be done otherwise. Kept to the recipe with the rest. Yum!
THIS WAS AMAZING! Today was my first time making homemade lasagna and I was looking at the crock-pot recipes, but a lot of them had negative reviews. I looked for a recipe that wasn’t too complicated and had positive reviews and hence I came across Linda’s Lasagna. I followed the receipt to a T! But I didn’t have the patience to boil lasagna noodles and set them aside, I decided to go with oven ready lasagna noodles to save on prep time and it didn’t effect in the recipe in no way, except I did cook it an additional 15 minutes in the oven (because on the package for the oven-ready noodles the baking time is 45 minutes). I also added a box of sliced up mushrooms into the sauce before simmering for an hour, and additional half a cup of water (since the mushrooms would absorb extra water). Instead of oregano I used Italian seasoning and 1 bay leaf (I removed the bay leaf when done simmering). The sauce was THICK and phenomenal! I had several family members come over to eat and they said it was the most delicious lasagna they ever had (I agree wholeheartedly) 🙂 It’s an easy (and tasty) recipe. Will make again.
This is delicious!! I didn’t make any changes to the ingredients, although I did layer it the old fashioned way. Thank you for posting this recipe!
This is my only recipe for Lasagna that I make. It always turns out great. And I always use cottage cheese.
Turned out amazing. I had extra sauce leftover though. I also added half a cup of sugar instead for some extra sweetness.