Meat Lasagna

Ingredients:
Half onion, copped
1 lb ground beef
1 teaspoon garlic powder
26 oz tomato sauce
mushrooms, chopped
1 teaspoon oregano
1/2 cup water
1 cup cottage cheese
1/3 cup parmesan cheese
1 egg beaten
1 teaspoon oil
1 teaspoon salt
shredded mozzarella cheese
9 lasagna noodles

Steps:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees for baking

Cook chopped onions, ground beef (i use organic) and garlic power in some oil (i use olive) in a pan.  Cook until meat is a little bit over medium cooked.

Next, mix in the tomato sauce (i used the crushed tomatoes belows), mushrooms, water and oregano and mix together

 

 

While this is cooking, in a separate bowl mix together the cottage cheese, parmesan cheese, egg, oil (i use olive), and salt together.

Get your lasagna pan ready. The mix I have is for a pan holding 3 lasagna noodles per layer (so noodles are side by side, all edges touching the pan) and 3 layers tall.

Coat the lasagna pan in some oil.  Then start the layers!

Put 1/3 of the sauce mix from the stove in the lasanga pan

Put 3 noodles side by side

1/3 of sauce mis

3 noodles

Cheese mix from above

Remaining 1/3 of sauce

Top everything with a thin layer of mozzarella cheese

  

 Pop this in the oven for about 20 - 25 minutes.  Take a taste at one of the corners to see if the noodles have been cooked. Once they have, take it out and let it cool down. I put it on the counter with some foil on top loosely.

Letting the lasagna cool down helps "put" the whole thing together so it won't crumble.
This is one of those dishes that are great the day of but also any other day. Just pop it back in the oven to reheat and it's still very yummy!!!