Chicken Lasagna Meat Sauce Recipes

SARAH'S CHICKEN LASAGNA

Steps:

• Cook noodles in a large pot of boiling water until done. Rinse, and drain. Set aside.
• In a medium saucepan, saute green pepper and onions in butter or margarine over medium heat. Stir in undiluted soup, milk, mushrooms, pasteurized cheese, pimento, and basil.
• Place half of the noodles in 13 x 7 x 2 inch baking dish. Layer with half of the cream sauce, 1/2 cottage cheese, 1/2 diced chicken, and 1/2 Parmesan cheese. Repeat layers.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 45 minutes.

CHICKEN LASAGNA

Steps:

• In a saucepan, saute onion and green pepper in butter until tender. Add mushrooms; cook until tender. Remove from the heat; stir in soup, milk, pimientos and basil. In a bowl, combine the chicken, American cheese, cottage cheese and 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese., Spread a fourth of the mushroom sauce in a 13x9-in. baking dish coated with cooking spray. Top with 3 noodles, half of the chicken mixture and a fourth of the mushroom sauce. Repeat layers of noodles, chicken and mushroom sauce. Top with the remaining noodles and mushroom sauce., Sprinkle with parsley and remaining Parmesan. Cover and bake at 350° for 30 minutes. Uncover; bake 15-20 minutes longer or until hot and bubbly. Let stand for 15 minutes before cutting.

CHICKEN LASAGNA & MEAT SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 F.
• Mix cottage cheese, beaten eggs and parmesan cheese. Spread < of the meat sauce in the bottom of a 9X13 pan and top with 3 noodles.
• Top with sauce, = of the cottage cheese mixture and 1/3 of the mozzarella.
• Repeat with 3 more noodles, sauce and cheeses.
• Finish with 3 noodles and the remaining sauce and mozzarella.
• Bake for 30 minutes or until noodles are tender and the cheese has melted.
• In a large non-stick skillet, stir cook ground chicken, onion, garlic , basil, oregano and salt until the chicken is no longer pink.
• Add remaining ingredients and simmer for 30 minutes.
• Leftover sauce can be frozen and reheated in the microwave. .

LASAGNA WITH MEAT SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Meat Sauce: Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium-high. Add beef, sausage, onion, carrots, celery, and 1 teaspoon salt. Cook, stirring occasionally and breaking up meat into bite-size pieces, until vegetables soften and meat has browned, about 10 minutes. Add garlic, oregano, and red-pepper flakes; cook until fragrant, 1 minute. Add tomato paste; cook 2 minutes more. Puree tomatoes in a blender or food processor; add to pan. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low and simmer, stirring occasionally, until reduced and thickened slightly but still very loose, about 15 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Cheese Mixture: In a large bowl, whisk together ricotta, milk, eggs, 1 cup Parmigiano-Reggiano, 2 1/2 cups mozzarella, parsley, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper.
• Assembly: Spread 2 cups meat sauce evenly in a 9-by-13-inch baking dish, preferably ceramic or enameled cast iron. Arrange 3 lasagna noodles over sauce (space noodles evenly; they will expand as the lasagna cooks). Spread 2 cups cheese mixture over noodles; top with 3 more noodles. Repeat layering of meat and cheese mixtures between noodles twice more. Spread 2 cups meat sauce evenly over top layer of noodles. Sprinkle evenly with remaining 1 1/2 cups mozzarella and 1/4 cup Parmigiano-Reggiano. Loosely cover with parchment-lined foil and transfer to a rimmed baking sheet.
• Bake until noodles are tender but still al dente (easily pierced with the tip of a knife), 40 to 45 minutes. Uncover; continue baking until bubbly and puffed slightly along edges and golden brown in places on top, 20 to 25 minutes more. (There may appear to be a lot of liquid in the dish. It will be absorbed as the lasagna cools.) Transfer dish to a wire rack and let cool slightly and set, about 20 minutes; cut into squares to serve.

2 MEAT 2 SAUCE LASAGNA

Steps:

• (Do this a few days before you are serving if possible) take the chicken, olive oil, some Italian seasoning, and 1/2 a clove of garlic (raw and chopped) and put it all in the ziplock bag (you can cut up the chicken now -- I didn't think to do it than but it might be smarter) seal the bag give it a shake and put it in the fridge.
• Day before you serve the lasagna, in the morning take off the sleeves off the sausage and roast the rest of the garlic.
• Add a few bulbs of roasted garlic chopped up to the de-sleeved sausage and add some olive oil and some Italian seasoning -- let it sit in the fridge covered til your ready for it.
• Empty the sauces into different pans (red in one white in another).
• Let the sauces reduce on the stove.
• Start cooking the meats in frying pans than add them to there sauce (red gets Italian sausage white gets chicken).
• Add egg to ricotta cheese.
• Boil the noodles.
• Grease the pan with butter.
• Put down a layer of noodles (3 noodles across the bottom should work).
• Flip a coin to choose which sauce you start with.
• If you start with red sauce, spoon a layer of sauce on the noodles.
• Put some mozzarella on top and put the next layer of noodles on.
• For white sauce, pour some of the sauce on (evenly distribute meat).
• Then spoon on some ricotta cheese and put the next layer of noodles on.
• Alternate red and white sauce steps till you fill the pan. (I topped mine with red sauce).
• Put some foil over it and put it in the fridge overnight.
• Day of --.
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Remove foil and put toothpicks in and make a "tent" out of foil so the cheese doesn't stick.
• Cook covered (tented) for 45 minutes, then remove tent and cook another 15 minutes.
• Remove from oven let it cool and enjoy.
• Freeze leftovers.