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Traditional Lasagna Recipe
Hot Italian sausage, rich, hearty caramelized onion and garlic red sauce, mushrooms, and petite diced tomatoes, with creamy ricotta cheese and mozzarella. A family favorite!
This classic traditional lasagna is on our weekly menu and a family favorite that everyone loves. All my kids enjoy
Lasagna is layers of hearty meat, tender noodles and shredded cheeses that makes this meal warm and comforting every time you make it. Bring on the lasagna!
Are you guys just appalled that I don’t already have a traditional lasagna recipe on my site? Me too!
With nearly 1200 recipes shared in my career as a food blogger, I can’t even believe I forgot to share such a standard and traditional recipe with you guys.
I have lasagna soup, lasagna roll ups, Instant Pot Lasagna and other lasagna inspired recipes, but no actual lasagna. But today I rectify that.
Check out this easy video for making traditional lasagna:
So I am sharing my version of hers. And when it comes to lasagna, there is a lot of cooking and chopping, and layering and work to do, and I am a bit of a lazy cook.
So when it comes to sauce, I love a good jarred sauce to make life easier. I used a Caramelized Onion and Garlic Sauce from Mezzetta. It has tons of flavor, and is great for a lasagna. One jar is all you need.
I hope you will try that method, it really is nice to always have a back up plan in place for dinner. And my family is pretty much always happy with lasagna.
What you need to make traditional lasagna recipe
- Lasagna Noodles: cooked
- Roasted garlic and caramelized onions sauce
- Hot Italian sausage: brown and crumbled
- White mushrooms: chopped
- Tomatoes: petite and diced
- Ricotta cheese
- Eggs
- Garlic salt
- Parsley
- Mozzarella cheese: divided
How do you make traditional lasagna recipe?
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Cook noodles according to package directions, and lay flat on wax paper
- Brown and crumble sausage over medium high heat in large skillet.
- Mix: In a large bowl mix ricotta, garlic salt, parsley, and eggs and 2 cups mozzarella cheese with a hand mixer until combined.
- Pour a little of the jarred sauce into a 9×13 foil pan.
- Layer noodles, cheese mixture, crumbled sausage, white mushrooms, petite diced tomatoes, additional cheese, and sauce. You should get 3 layers, the top layer should be noodles, sauce, then about 1 cup of cheese.
- Cover lasagna with foil.
- Bake for 50 mins, remove foil, and bake additional 10 mins to brown the cheese.
- Rest 5-10 mins, and serve.
Can I make ahead? Yes!
Assemble and bake the lasagna ahead of time. Then place in an airtight container for 3 days in the refrigerator.
If you need to keep it longer, it would be better to freeze it and reheat it. If you just need to make it a day ahead, you could refrigerate it before baking it.
What goes good with this recipe
Make this a complete meal by starting off with Stuffed Mushrooms, with a side salad Escarole, Roasted Tomato and Wheat Berry Salad. And dip your Garlic Bread Twists in your red sauce then end with Brownie Lover’s Cheesecake with Ultimate Hot Fudge Sauce.
Can I freeze it? Yes!
I usually double my batch with lasagna so I can make one for dinner, and one to stick in the freezer for a busy night.
Cooking variations
If you want to add some variations to this particular recipe, feel free to omit mushrooms, add green peppers, add hamburger, or cottage cheese and customize as you see fit.
This is a traditional recipe, and oh so tasty!
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Traditional Lasagna Recipe
Ingredients
- 9-12 cooked Lasagna Noodles
- 1 jar 25 oz roasted garlic and caramelized onions sauce
- 1 1/2 lbs hot Italian sausage browned and crumbled
- 8 ounces white mushrooms chopped
- 1 can 14.5 ounces petite diced tomatoes
- 16 ounces Ricotta Cheese
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 tsp garlic salt
- 1/2 tsp dried parsley
- 5 cups mozzarella cheese divided
Instructions
- Preheat to 350 degrees
- Cook noodles according to package directions, and lay flat on wax paper
- Brown and crumble sausage over medium high heat in large skillet.
- In a large bowl mix ricotta, garlic salt, parsley, and eggs and 2 cups mozzarella cheese with a hand mixer until combined.
- Pour a little of the jarred sauce into a 9x13 foil pan.
- Layer noodles, cheese mixture, crumbled sausage, white mushrooms, petite diced tomatoes, additional cheese, and sauce. You should get 3 layers, the top layer should be noodles, sauce, then about 1 cup of cheese.
- Cover lasagna with foil.
- Bake for 50 mins, remove foil, and bake additional 10 mins to brown the cheese.
- Let rest 5-10 mins, and serve.
Nutrition
Our recipe card software calculates these nutrition facts based on averages for the above ingredients, different brands, and quality of produce/meats may have different nutritional information, always calculate your own based on the specific products you use in order to achieve accurate macros for this recipe.
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