Mom Hack Lasagna
Ingredients:
600g extra lean ground beef
12 mushrooms
3 cloves of garlic
1 small onion, peeled
1 box prewashed baby spinach
Italian Passata Sauce with basil 1 jar
Fire roasted tomatoes 1 can
Ricotta cheese (reduced fat)
Mozzarella cheese (reduced fat) - shredded
Parmesan cheese - shredded
1 box whole wheat lasagna noodles
Olive oil
Salt and pepper
Instructions:
Start running the tap and fill up a large pot with HOT salted water, this speeds up the time it will take to get your noodles ready. Heat the pot over high heat with a lid. When rolling boil cook noodles per package instructions, I like to undercook by 1-2 minutes to ensure the pasta is al dente in the end.
Preheat the oven to 375F. Heat another large pan over the stove at medium heat and add a tbsp of olive oil.
Use a food processor or bullet to quickly chop your onion into fine pieces. Add this to the frypan and cook until golden
Meanwhile, use your bullet to chop your garlic and add it to your onions. Pan fry together 2-3 minutes until fragrant and not burnt.
Add ground beef to the pan and cook until meat is no longer pink. Slice and add mushrooms to meat after brown. Then add a box of spinach, bottle of sauce, can of tomatoes, and simmer until spinach is wilted down. It will seem like too much spinach but it shrinks a lot!
Get a glass 8 x 12” Pyrex glass pan and layer the bottom with noodles evenly, we use 4 noodles/row.
Then layer meat sauce, a dust of mozzarella cheese, noodles, ricotta cheese, noodles, and the final layer of meat sauce. Top with mozzarella and Parmesan cheese
Bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes until golden brown
