I just love using my crock pot (also known as a slow cooker) for weekday dinners. There is nothing like being able to put a meal together in the morning and then forget about it till it’s time to eat!
Lasagna is a great meal to make in the crock pot. Traditionally this Italian style dish takes a while to make-there is the boiling of noodles, the pain of putting it together, and then a long bake time. The crock pot not only removes the worry of needing to be home an hour before dinner time to get it in the oven, but you can use dry noodles and completely eliminate a step!
Crock Pot Lasagna
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 onion chopped
- 2 garlic cloves smashed
- 1 C Water
- 28 oz tomato sauce
- 6 oz tomato paste
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp oregano
- 12 oz ricotta or cottage cheese
- 1/2 C Parmesan cheese
- 12 oz lasagna noodles uncooked
- 16 oz shredded mozzarella cheese
Instructions
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Cook ground meat, onion & garlic in frying pan until meat is browned and onion is translucent
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Add water, sauce, paste, salt & oregano and cook until warmed through.
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In a bowl mix cottage/ricotta cheese, Parmesan and all but 1/4C mozzarella.
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Spoon a layer of sauce onto the bottom of the crockpot.
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Add a double layer of uncooked noodles (broken to fit in)
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Add a layer of cheese mixture.
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Repeat layers until all ingredients are used up.
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Sprinkle remaining 1/4C Mozzarella on top.
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Cook on low 4-5 hrs.
Variations:
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Use any other combination of meat instead of the ground beef-venison, Italian sausage, ground turkey or pork. You can even use premade frozen meatballs cut in half.
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Use Ricotta cheese instead of cottage cheese.
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Use another noodle instead of lasagna noodles.
I love crock pot cooking – thanks for the recipe. This is a great RV meal — it can cook all day while we are out having fun and we don’t have to use propane or heat up the trailer to cook the meal. I’ve been looking for a recipe like this for a while!!!
We had this for dinner on Monday (and as leftovers for lunches at other times of the week). It is a very good recipe — and I saved more time by browning the hamburger at the same time I browned the rest of the bulk package I’d bought. Some went into Sunday night’s meatloaf, some went into freezer containers for future meals — and the portion that I browned with the onion and garlic became part of Monday’s lasagna dinner.
A question?
Is that (2) 8 oz cans of tomato sauce or 28 ozs of tomato sauce. Big difference and I cannot think which would be more likely. Thx!
Patti-it’s 28 oz. 🙂