No Boil Lasagna-lower Fat

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 4 ounces creamette lasagna noodles (8 noodles)
• 1 lb extra lean ground beef
• 26 ounces hunt's garlic and herb spaghetti sauce (1 large can)
• 1 cup water
• 2 teaspoons tomato paste
• 1 teaspoon oregano
• 2 teaspoons garlic powder
• 16 ounces 1% fat cottage cheese
• 1 tablespoon dried parsley
• 1/2 cup parmesan cheese
• 1 egg
• 2 cups light mozzarella cheese

Recipe

• 1 brown ground beef in skillet, drain.
• 2 add spaghetti sauce, paste, oregano, garlic powder and water. stir until tomato paste is mixed. keep on low heat.
• 3 in a med. bowl combine the cottage cheese, parsley, parmesean and egg . stir well.
• 4 once the sauce just begins to boil, remove from heat.
• 5 in a 9 x12 baking pan, spoon in 1 cup of sauce mix, on top of that put 4 uncooked lasagna noodles (possibly 3 horizontal and 1 vertical). you do not need to make the noodles touch as they will expand while cooking.
• 6 next spread 1/2 the cottage cheese mixture over the noodles. sprinkle with 1 cup mozzarella cheese. spoon 1/2 the remaining sauce over the cheese then layer the next 4 noodles. put the rest of the cheese mixture and mozzarella cheese then on top of that spread out the remaining sauce.
• 7 cover and bake for 60 minutes at 350 degrees or until the middle of the pan just begins to bubble.
• 8 remove and let stand for 10 minutes before cutting.