Jennie's Flavorful Cottage Cheese Lasagna Recipe

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Jennie's Flavorful Cottage Cheese Lasagna
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Ingredients
12
Count
Nutrition
873
Calories
Total time
74
Minutes
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Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Preheat your oven to 350.
  2. Lightly grease or spray a 13x9 baking pan.
  3. Start by sauteing your mirepoix veggies in a little oil over medium high heat - about 5 minutes. (Hate veggies? Ok - you can skip this - but please at least add some onion powder!) Add your hamburger and cook until well browned. Add your favorite jar of pasta sauce and mix to combine. (I use Prego Italian Sausage & Garlic - because I like it and because I'm too lazy to make my own sauce - no lectures, please!) Set aside.
  4. In a small bowl, add egg (beaten), all your spices (salt, pepper, garlic, Italian seasonings), the cottage cheese (any kind - I use 4%), the Parmesan and HALF (1 cup) of your mozzarella cheese. Stir to combine. Can you use Ricotta instead of the cottage cheese? Yes! Of course! It's your kitchen! I'm just using cottage cheese because I have some and it reminds me of how my mom used to make lasagna. You do what you want!
  5. Now - take a big scoop of sauce and slather it on the bottom of your baking pan. Layer 4 noodles across to cover the bottom. Take half of your cheesy mixture and spread all over the noodles - try to cover it evenly. Now add half of your sauce mixture. Now more noodles. Then other half of your cheese mixture. Now the rest of the sauce. And finally top with your remaining 1 cup of mozzarella cheese! Doesn't it look and smell good already?!
  6. Cover with a piece of tin foil (I get a large piece and try to tent the top a little so the cheese doesn't melt to the tin foil - that stuff is gold!) Bake for 45 minutes. (You may want to put your baking dish on a baking tray while cooking in case it boils over during the baking process - cleaning a tray is much easier than cleaning an oven.).
  7. After 45 minutes - visit your lasagna and take off the tin foil. Yum, right? Let it cook 15 minutes more.
  8. Now the hard part - take the delicious lasagna out of the oven and LET IT REST for 20 minutes! What?! You wanted to eat it right away?! Me, too - but too bad - it needs to rest! If you want a soupy, runny mess of hot lasagna - then go ahead and eat it right away. But if you want a beautiful, photo-worthy cut piece of lasagna that is Pinterest worthy - just wait. Sit down and have some wine - make a salad - or garlic bread!
  9. This feeds 6 big eater,s OR 8 regular eaters, OR 12 small eaters.
  10. Ok - that's it! Enjoy your lasagna!
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 873.29 Kcal (3656 kJ)
Calories from fat 175.22 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 19.47g 30%
Cholesterol 239.82mg 80%
Sodium 1696.91mg 71%
Potassium 601.56mg 13%
Total Carbs 87.83g 29%
Sugars 6.25g 25%
Dietary Fiber 7.14g 29%
Protein 88.25g 176%
Vitamin A 0.7mg 22%
Iron 3mg 17%
Calcium 1273.4mg 127%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 48.8 Kcal (204 kJ)
Calories from fat 9.79 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 1.09g 30%
Cholesterol 13.4mg 80%
Sodium 94.83mg 71%
Potassium 33.62mg 13%
Total Carbs 4.91g 29%
Sugars 0.35g 25%
Dietary Fiber 0.4g 29%
Protein 4.93g 176%
Iron 0.2mg 17%
Calcium 71.2mg 127%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 18.3
    Points
  • 22
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • low fat,
  • saturated fat free,
  • low sodium,
  • low cholesterol,
  • sugar free

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium

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