What's on the menu for your dinners this week? A great chose would be the meat lasagna. This mouth watering dish along with a salad and some fresh bread, is sure to please the whole family.
by MikeJones


What's on the menu for your dinners this week? A great chose would be the meat lasagna. This mouth watering dish along with a salad and some fresh bread, is sure to please the whole family.

What you get with a meat lasagna, is a marvelous mixture of a sauce with Italian spices, cottage or even ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese and ground beef.Just layer all these ingredients in a pan and cook it until the pasta is tender and the cheese is bubbly and melted.

Different from other dishes with pasta lasagna can be baked without cooking the pasta before hand. Simply put the lasagna noodles in with all the wet ingredients as you layer it.It may have to bake a while longer, but it wont change how it tastes.

Another great way to do lasagna, is with Alfredo sauce and chicken. A lovely addition to the chicken and Alfredo, is vegetables in the layers of the pan.

If you are a vegetarian, the lasagna could be made with veggies instead of meat. You could substitute spinach, zucchini and even carrots. Then just make your preference of sauce, whether it be red or white. This alternative is just as great tasting and much healthier than meat.

If you are craving lasagna but are cutting the carbohydrates, try using your traditional lasagna recipe but substitute steamed cabbage leaves for the lasagna noodles. The flavor of this casserole is reminiscent of traditional lasagna and may fool your taste buds.

In order to cook lasagna, you will need a deep dish casserole dish that is at least three inches deep. Due to the shape of the noodles, square or rectangular pans work best.

If you do not have the deep dish pan, then you will find disposable aluminum lasagna pans at the grocery store. These pans are great for freezing a second lasagna for use at a later date. In addition, they make clean up a breeze.

About the Author: