Sausage and Zucchini Lasagna

Name: Sausage and Zucchini Lasagna
Prep time: 1 h 10 min
Cook time: 1 h 10 min
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Mediterranean, Italian, European
Ingredients: 454 grams bulk pork sausage; 1 egg white; 6 no-boil lasagna noodles, or more if needed; 118 milliliters grated Parmesan cheese; 454 grams ricotta cheese; 227 grams shredded mozzarella cheese; 473 milliliters spaghetti sauce, divided; 1 Tbsp vegetable oil; 2 zucchini, quartered and sliced

Sausage and Zucchini Lasagna might be just the main course you are searching for. This recipe serves 6. One portion of this dish contains around 37g of protein, 44g of fat, and a total of 665 calories. This recipe covers 24% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up bulk pork sausage, mozzarella cheese, no-boil lasagna noodles, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the zucchini you could follow this main course with the Zucchini Dessert Squares as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour and 10 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

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Pour about 1/4 cup of spaghetti sauce into the bottom of a 9x13-inch baking dish.

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Pasta Sauce

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Baking Pan

Heat vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium heat; cook and stir the sausage and zucchini until the meat is no longer pink and the zucchini pieces are tender, 10 to 12 minutes.

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Vegetable Oil

Zucchini

Sausage

Meat

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Frying Pan

Drain excess fat from the skillet, and set the sausage mixture aside. While the sausage and zucchinis are cooking, mix together the ricotta cheese, egg white, mozzarella cheese, and 1/4 cup of Parmesan cheese in a bowl until well combined.

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Mozzarella

Parmesan

Ricotta Cheese

Egg Whites

Zucchini

Sausage

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Place 3 lasagna noodles into the bottom of the baking dish on top of the spaghetti sauce, overlapping noodles slightly if necessary.

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Spread half the sausage-zucchini mixture on top of the noodles.

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Pasta

Sausage

Spread

Spread half the cheese mixture over the meat and zucchini, and pour 1 cup of spaghetti sauce evenly over the cheese mixture.

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Zucchini

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Spread

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Spread the sauce over the cheese mixture with a spoon or spatula. Repeat layers, starting with 3 more noodles, the rest of the sausage mixture, the rest of the cheese mixture, and 1 more cup of spaghetti sauce.

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Pasta Sauce

Pasta

Sausage

Cheese

Sauce

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Spatula