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WORLD'S BEST LASAGNA

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, cook sausage, ground beef, onion, and garlic over medium heat until well browned.
• Stir in crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, tomato sauce, and water.
• Season with sugar, basil, fennel seeds, Italian seasoning, 1 tablespoon salt, pepper, and 2 tablespoons parsley.
• Simmer, covered, for about 1 1/2 hours, stirring occasionally.
• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil.
• Cook lasagna noodles in boiling water for 8 to 10 minutes.
• Drain noodles, and rinse with cold water.
• In a mixing bowl, combine ricotta cheese with egg, remaining parsley, and 1/2 teaspoon salt.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• To assemble, spread 1 1/2 cups of meat sauce in the bottom of a 9x13 inch baking dish.
• Arrange 6 noodles lengthwise over meat sauce.
• Spread with one half of the ricotta cheese mixture.
• Top with a third of mozzarella cheese slices.
• Spoon 1 1/2 cups meat sauce over mozzarella, and sprinkle with 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese.
• Repeat layers, and top with remaining mozzarella and Parmesan cheese.
• Cover with foil: to prevent sticking, either spray foil with cooking spray, or make sure the foil does not touch the cheese.
• Bake in preheated oven for 25 minutes.
• Remove foil, and bake an additional 25 minutes. Cool for 15 minutes before serving.

WORLD'S BEST 6-CHEESE LASAGNA

Steps:

• sauce:.
• in a medium saucepan combine whipping cream, butter or margarine, and grated parmesan cheese. cook over medium low heat until smooth. remove from heat. sauce will thicken upon standing.
• preheat your oven to 425°F.
• cook lasagna noodles as directed, run through cool water, set aside.
• in a large baking pan, spread a small amount of spaghetti sauce on the bottom and cover with the first layer of lasagna noodles.
• beat an egg into the ricotta cheese to make it easier to spread, and spread a thin layer over the noodles.
• sprinkle a 3rd of the feta cheese over the ricotta, slice the mozzarella and use half to cover, sprinkle with a 3rd of both fontina and asiago.
• add the next layer of noodles.
• pour half of the alfredo sauce on top of the noodles. it does not matter if the sauce hasn't thickened, it will be easier to spread and it will thicken in the oven.
• sprinkle a 3rd of feta cheese, a 3rd of fontina, and a 3rd of asiago over the alfredo sauce.
• add the next layer of noodles.
• pour the remaining alfredo sauce over the top layer, use about 1 cup of the spaghetti sauce or tomatoes as well to cover.
• add the remaining feta, fontinella, and asiago cheeses. slice the last half of the mozzarella and place on top to cover. sprinkle with remaining cheeses, basil and red pepper flakes.
• loosely cover with foil and bake for thirty minutes. remove foil and cook until cheese is slightly browned and bubbly.

WORLD'S BEST LASAGNA

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Combine beef and sauce in sauce pan. Put just enough water in sauce jar to rinse sides, shake it up, then add it to sauce. Mix and let simmer.
• While sauce simmers, combine all 3 cheeses, eggs, and salt and pepper to taste in large mixing bowl and mix well.
• In 13x9" casserole/baking dish, lay down thin layer of sauce on bottom, just enough to cover so noodles don't stick.
• Lay down first layer of UNCOOKED noodles, then a layer of sauce, then 1/2 of the cheese mixture. Follow with another layer of noodles, sauce, rest of cheese mixture, another layer of noodles, then finish with the rest of the sauce on top.
• Cover with aluminum foil and bake at 350 degrees F for 55-60 minutes.
• Remove from oven, remove foil, then bake for an additional 10 minutes.
• Remove from oven and let stand for 10 minutes before cutting to serve.

WORLD'S EASIEST LASAGNA

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Spray baking dish with non-fat cooking spray.
• In large bowl, mix together the pasta sauce and ground turkey.
• Line bottom of prepared dish with 1/3 of the pasta sauce mixture.
• Lay strips of uncooked lasagna noodles on top of pasta sauce.
• Spread 1/2 of the cottage cheese over noodles and sprinkle one half of the mozzarella cheese over the cottage cheese.
• Start with 1/3 of the sauce again, and repeat layers one more time, ending with the last third of the sauce.
• Cover with foil and bake at 375 for 1 hour.
• Note: To avoid a mess with the lasagna bubbling over, place dish on a cookie sheet or sheet of foil.

KATEL'S TWEAKED WORLD'S BEST LASAGNA

Steps:

• SAUCE:.
• In a large, heavy pot, cook sausage, ground beef until browned. Drain sausage and ground beef and reserve, leaving 2 tablespoons of fat in the pan. Cook onion over medium heat until well-browned (maybe 5 minutes?), but do not burn. Add garlic and cook for 30 seconds (if garlic burns, it turns bitter).
• Add drained sausage and ground beef back to pan. Stir in anchovy paste, crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, tomato sauce and wine/sherry/water. Now stir in sugar, basil, fennel seeds, Italian seasoning, 1 teaspoon salt, and 2 tablespoons roughly chopped Italian flat-leaf parsley.
• Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer. Simmer, covered, for 1 1/2 hours, stirring occasionally. (If you use an enameled cast iron Dutch oven, give yourself a pat on the back.). (The simmering cooks the sauce down to a very thick consistency.).
• Let sauce cool, then refrigerate in a covered non-reactive dish overnight to let the flavors meld.
• LASAGNA:.
• Soak raw, hard noodles in a large roasting pan with VERY hot tap water for 20-30 minute (Noodles won't be cooked but soft, and can complete its cooking in the oven.).
• (Alternatively, you may instead bring a large pot of water to a boil, seasoned with kosher salt. Boil lasagna noodles for 8-10 minutes. Drain noodles and rinse with cold water.).
• In a mixing bowl, combine ricotta cheese with eggs, 2 tablespoons parsley, 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg and 1/2 teaspoon salt.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Spray 9x13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
• Spread 1 1/2 cups of meat sauce in the bottom of the 9x13-inch baking dish. Arrange 6 noodles lengthwise over meat sauce. Spread with half of the ricotta cheese mixture. Top with 1/2 of the mozzarella cheese slices. Spoon 1 1/2 cups of meat sauce on top, then sprinkle with 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese.
• For second layer: spread 1 1/2 cups meat sauce, 6 noodles, remaining ricotta mixture, 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese, 1 1/2 cups sauce, remaining half of mozzarella slices, and 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese.
• Tear off aluminum foil to cover pan. Spray foil with cooking spray.
• Bake for 25 minutes, covered with foil, at 375 degrees F.
• Remove foil, and bake an additional 25 minutes.
• Cool 15-20 minutes before serving.

WORLD'S GREATEST BAKED LASAGNA

Steps:

• Combine tomato sauce, tomato puree, tomato paste, water, bay leaf and oil in lg saucepan.
• Cook at medium-high heat, stirring constantly to a light boil.
• In a separate frying pan, sauté sausage.
• Drain fat and add garlic, mushrooms and onion, sautéing for 1-2 minutes.
• Add parsley and olives to the tomato sauce mixture and stir in the ground meat mixture.
• Add salt, sugar, oregano, thyme, rosemary, basil and pepper.
• Stir together and cook on med heat until mixture boils, stirring constantly.
• Reduce heat to low and simmer for 20 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Prepare meat sauce.
• Blend together eggs, ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese and 1 cup Parmesan cheese.
• In a casserole dish layer lasagna as follows:.
• Meat sauce, noodles, cheese mixture, noodles, meat sauce, noodles, cheese mixture, noodles, meat sauce and top with remaining Parmesan cheese.
• Bake for 35 minutes, uncovered.
• Check for doneness by poking through noodles with knife.

WORLD'S LAZIEST LASAGNA

Steps:

• Brown the beef and garlic in a skillet.
• Drain.
• Add spaghetti sauce; heat on low.
• While meat sauce is heating, mix the cottage cheese, ricotta, mozzarella, egg, and 1/2 cup of the parmesan.
• Spread 1 1/2 cups of the meat sauce in the bottom of a 9x13 pan.
• Put a layer of noodles over the sauce, so that none overlap.
• If you have to break a noodle to fill in gaps over 1/2 inch, that's okay.
• Put a layer of cheese mix over the noodles.
• Add about 1/2 of the remaining meat sauce; spread over cheese.
• Repeat layers.
• End with cheese on top; put remaining parmesan on top of the other chesse.
• Pour 1 cup of water around inside edges of the pan, and cover with foil.
• **Bake in a 350 oven for 1 hour, then uncover and bake 15 minutes more.
• Take from oven and let cool about 10 minutes before serving.
• Can be refrigerated up to 48 hours at this point.