World's Best Lasagna - Bens Modified

"My version of Best lasagna ever"
 
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Ready In:
2hrs 45mins
Ingredients:
23
Serves:
12
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ingredients

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directions

  • In a large sauce pan, cook sausage, ground beef, onion, and garlic over medium heat until well browned.
  • Stir in 1/2 cup white wine.
  • Stir in crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, tomato sauce.
  • Season with sugar, basil, fennel seeds, Italian seasoning, bay leaves, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon pepper, 1 teaspoon red crushed pepper and 2 tablespoons parsley.
  • Simmer, covered, for about 1 1/2 hours - 2 hours, stirring occasionally.
  • In a mixing bowl, combine ricotta cheese with egg, remaining parsley, nutmeg, 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 noodles lengthwise over meat sauce. Do not overlap noodles, but break pieces to fill in gaps.
  • Spread with one half of the ricotta cheese mixture.
  • Top with a third of mozzarella cheese.
  • 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. Grate some black pepper on top.
  • 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.

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Reviews

  1. Wonderful lasagna. I've made it before from the Allrecipes site and here are the adjustments I make based on their 4000 reviews: double the garlic, use 3/4 cup red wine instead of water, add 1/4 tsp of nutmeg to the ricotta mixture and use only 1tsp of salt in the sauce. Actually I don't think the sauce needs any additional salt due to the salt in the sausage and canned tomatoes, so I will omit it next time. I'm not a huge fan of sausage, but my family likes it so I keep it in. I might try to find a really high quality sweet Italian sausage from a butcher next time to see if I like it better.<br/>Update: I made it without sausage and it wasn't as good. Used 28 oz fancy ground tomato (no salt) and I liked the control over the salt. I also added more noodles (full box) and separated the layers of sauce from the ricotta cheese layer and that worked fabulously. Next time I will use the full box of noodles again and add more sauce to the sauce layers (3 cups a piece).
     
  2. Was in a hurry n didn't have the lasagna wide noodle so I used wide egg noodle, not only was it still great, but made sizing of dishes so easy. No messing around cutting the large noodle. Give a try, let me know how ya like it.
     
  3. I made this recipe as written with the exception of using red wine instead of water and doubled the garlic. This has to be close to the best lasagna recipe I have ever tried and I have tried more than a few. This recipe is definitely a keeper. Thanks for sharing.
     
  4. Rated 10 stars by 5 guests and myself!
     
  5. I added the extra garlic but have recovering alcoholics in the fam so used the water. I used no hamburger just more sausage. I really like the no-cook noodles so I made it with that. Salt to taste. It was yyyyuuuuummmmmyyyy! Whole family loved it and I made extra in foil take home pans so they could freeze or eat. Thanx for the recipe and hints!
     
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  1. Changed noodle type.
     
  2. Wonderful lasagna. I've made it before from the Allrecipes site and here are the adjustments I make based on their 4000 reviews: double the garlic, use 3/4 cup red wine instead of water, add 1/4 tsp of nutmeg to the ricotta mixture and use only 1tsp of salt in the sauce. Actually I don't think the sauce needs any additional salt due to the salt in the sausage and canned tomatoes, so I will omit it next time. I'm not a huge fan of sausage, but my family likes it so I keep it in. I might try to find a really high quality sweet Italian sausage from a butcher next time to see if I like it better.<br/>Update: I made it without sausage and it wasn't as good. Used 28 oz fancy ground tomato (no salt) and I liked the control over the salt. I also added more noodles (full box) and separated the layers of sauce from the ricotta cheese layer and that worked fabulously. Next time I will use the full box of noodles again and add more sauce to the sauce layers (3 cups a piece).
     

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