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Monday, March 29, 2010

Sausage and Spinach Lasagna
in a White Cheese Sauce

I'm always trying to re-create recipes.
Here's a layered lasagna with no tomato sauce.
It's got a white cheese sauce along with
sweet Italian sausage with green bell peppers.

Ingredients:
1 (10 ounce) package frozen chopped spinach
1/2 pound cooked sweet Italian sausage
1 green bell pepper, chopped
29 ounces Alfredo-style pasta sauce
1/2 cup skim milk
1 (8 ounce) package lasagna noodles
1 pint part-skim ricotta cheese
1 egg
8 ounces shredded carrots
8 ounces fresh mushrooms, sliced
1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
olive oil

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Coat a 10x15 inch lasagna pan with olive oil.
Place the spinach in a medium bowl.
Microwave, uncovered, on high for 4 minutes.
Mix in ricotta. Beat the egg with a wire whisk,
and add it to the spinach and ricotta. Stir well to blend.
Combine pasta sauce with milk in a medium bowl. Mix well.
Spread about 1/2 cup pasta sauce mixture
evenly in the bottom of the dish.
Place 3 uncooked noodles over the sauce.
Spread half of the spinach mixture over the noodles.
Sprinkle with half of the carrots and half of the mushrooms.
Place 3 more noodles over the vegetable mixture.
Pour 1 1/2 cups sauce over the noodles.
Spread the remaining spinach mixture over the sauce,
followed by layers of the remaining carrots and mushrooms.
Place 3 more noodles over the vegetables.
Pour remaining sauce evenly on top.
Arrange sausage and green peppers around top.
Sprinkle with the mozzarella cheese.
Spray a sheet of aluminum foil with cooking spray.
Cover the dish tightly with aluminum foil, spray side down.
Bake for 50 to 60 minutes. Remove from oven,
uncover, and spoon some sauce over the exposed top noodles.
Turn the oven off, and place the uncovered dish
back into the warm oven for 15 more minutes.
Serve at once, or let rest until ready to serve.

2 comments:

Stella Mayer said...

I love lasagna but this particular recipe is pretty interesting for me. I've never tried having sausage and spinach together before. Usually it's just spinach or just sausage. I would definitely try this one.

Lasagna said...

I think this is a great idea. Now you can have meat and veggies at the same time. Your kids won't probably notice the spinach at all!