Cottage Cheese Lasagna

Cottage Cheese Lasagna

Ingredients

    1 lb. ground beef
    1 lb. Italian sausage
    1 yellow onion, chopped
    3 cloves garlic, minced
    Pinch red pepper flakes (optional)
    24 ounce jar your favorite pasta sauce (I like a marinara)
    1 teaspoon oregano
    1/2 teaspoon black pepper
    1/2 teaspoon Kosher salt

For the filling:

    1 1/2 cups full fat small curd cottage cheese
    1 egg
    1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
    1 teaspoon dried parsley
    1/2 teaspoon salt
    1/2 teaspoon black pepper

For the lasagna:

    12 lasagna noodles
    3 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
    2 cups shredded baby Swiss cheese

Cottage Cheese Lasagna

Instructions

heat kitchen appliance to 350 degrees. Spray a nine x thirteen in. baking dish with change of state spray.

For the sauce and noodles:

mix the bottom beef, Italian sausage, and onion in an exceedingly giant, deep sauce pan. Cook over medium high heat, calling it off the meat with a spatula, till no pink remains. Drain any excess fat off the pan, then stir in garlic, sauce, oregano, pepper, and salt. Heat through then cut back heat to low. permit the sauce to simmer whereas you prepare the remainder of the ingredients.
Bring an oversized pot of water to a boil and add a fat pinch of salt and swirl of oil (this helps keep the noodles from jutting.) Add the noodles to the pot and cook for regarding a pair of minutes but the package directions. Drain noodles then lay them out on tin foil thus they will be able to go later.

For the filling:

in an exceedingly medium bowl, stir along the cheese, egg, cheese cheese, parsley, salt and pepper. Set aside.

To layer:

unfold a awfully scant layer of meat sauce on all-time low of the pan. high with four noodles set lengthwise within the pan. unfold 0.5 the cheese on high followed by four additional noodles. unfold 1/2 the remaining sauce over the noodles. unfold all of the cheese mixture on high of the sauce, followed by three additional noodles. end with the remaining sauce and cheese. Bake within the preheated kitchen appliance for 35-40 minutes or till cheese is melted and brunet .