Easy Beef Lasagna

This recipe is a throw together dish that can feed one person for several meals.  In order to avoid cooking the lasagne noodles ahead of time, prepare the casserole the night before you plan to eat it.  When you're ready for dinner, you need only pop it in the oven!

Ingredients

3          cups cooked lean ground beef (96% or 90%) (Buy 1 lb)

1          (26-oz.) jar fire-roasted tomato-and-garlic pasta sauce 

1          (15-oz.) container low-fat ricotta cheese

1/2       cup shredded Parmesan cheese ( shredded kind in the little plastic tub will taste better)

6          whole wheat lasagna noodles 

2          cups (8 oz.) part skim or low-fat shredded mozzarella cheese

Directions

1. Stir together ground beef and pasta sauce. Stir together ricotta cheese and Parmesan cheese.

2. Spread one-third of meat sauce in a lightly greased 11- x 7-inch baking dish; layer with 3 lasagna noodles and half each of ricotta cheese mixture and shredded mozzarella cheese. Repeat procedure once. Spread remaining one-third of meat sauce over mozzarella cheese.

3.  Allow the dish to sit overnight

4. Bake, covered, at 375° for 1 hour; uncover and bake 15 more minutes. Let stand 10 minutes before serving.

Note: Used Classico Fire Roasted Tomato & Garlic pasta sauce.

Easy Turkey Lasagna: Substitute 3 cups cooked ground turkey for 3 cups cooked lean ground beef, and proceed as directed.

6 to 8 servings