Slow Cooker Lasagna
Slow Cooker Lasagna - lasagna made in the crock pot
Slow Cooker Lasagna - our favorite lasagna recipe made in the slow cooker! SO easy! No need to boil the noodles - just toss them in the slow cooker unbaked.They will cook along with the lasagna in the slow cooker. Italian sausage, cottage cheese, egg, parsley, spaghetti sauce, tomato sauce, lasagna noodles, mozzarella and parmesan. Serve with some garlic bread and a salad. Can freeze leftovers for later. We LOVE this lasagna casserole recipe!!! #crockpot #slowcooker #lasagna
Lasagna is a holiday tradition in our family. We would always have lasagna on Christmas Eve so I could eat the leftovers for my Christmas dinner. I wasn't a big turkey fan, but I LOVED lasagna. I do eat a little turkey now, but we still make Lasagna on Christmas Eve. This year I am changing our traditional recipe up a bit and making it in the slow cooker. Who knew lasagna could taste SO good out of the slow cooker?!?!?!
I love how easy this Slow Cooker Lasagna is to make. No need to boil the lasagna noodles. Just layer them in the slow cooker uncooked. You are going to add a little extra liquid to the sauce and that will cook the noodles for you. How awesome is that???
I took a major shortcut and used a jar of spaghetti sauce in this recipe. I usually make my own sauce for lasagna, but it takes hours to make and I wanted something quick this time. I like Trader Joe's Roasted Garlic Marinara (green label), I also love Rao's and La Famiglia DelGrosso pasta sauces.
We all LOVED this Slow Cooker Lasagna. I might have eaten two GIANT pieces! We served this with our favorite Garlic Bread and our Creamy Italiano Salad. Perfecto! I am counting down the days until we make this again!! SO good!
crock pot, slow cooker, pasta, italian, casserole, lasagna, italian sausage, cottage cheese
Entree
Italian
Yield: serves 8 to 10
Slow Cooker Lasagna
prep time: 10 minscook time: 4 hourtotal time: 4 hours and 10 mins
Slow Cooker Lasagna - our favorite lasagna recipe made in the slow cooker! SO easy! No need to boil the noodles - just toss them in the slow cooker unbaked.They will cook along with the lasagna in the slow cooker. Italian sausage, cottage cheese, egg, parsley, spaghetti sauce, tomato sauce, lasagna noodles, mozzarella and parmesan. Serve with some garlic bread and a salad. Can freeze leftovers for later. We LOVE this lasagna casserole recipe!!! #crockpot #slowcooker #lasagna
ingredients:
- 1-1/4 pounds Italian sausage, removed from casings or ground beef
- 1 (26-oz) jar spaghetti sauce
- 2 (8-oz) cans tomato sauce
- 4 cups cottage cheese
- 1 egg
- 1-1/2 Tbsp dried parsley
- 16-oz mozzarella slices
- 3/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
- 12 lasagna noodles, uncooked
instructions:
- In a large skillet, cook Italian sausage until crumbled and no longer pink. Drain fat. Stir in spaghetti sauce and tomato sauce. Set aside.
- Combine cottage cheese, egg and parsley. Set aside.
- Spray a 6-qt Slow Cooker with cooking spray. Spread 1 cup of sauce in bottom of slow cooker.
- Top sauce with 4 lasagna noodles, breaking to fit. Spread 1/3 of cottage cheese mixture of on top of noodles. Top with 1/4 of mozzarella slices. Top mozzarella with 1/3 of remaining sauce. Sprinkle 1/3 of parmesan cheese on top of sauce.
- Repeat layers two more times. - noodles, cottage cheese, mozzarella, sauce and parmesan. Top lasagna with remaining mozzarella slices.
- Cover slow cooker and cook on LOW for 4 hours.
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