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Things get hectic around my house, and every once in a while I need to turn to my old friend the slow cooker to take care of dinner. One of my favorite slow cooker meals is Lasagna! It’s so much easier to make in a slow cooker rather than using the oven, and tases so good! 
You start by
cooking your meats together and drain them, then add the sauce and let simmer while you prepare the other ingredients. Mix Ricotta Cheese, Cottage Cheese, Parmasean Cheese, Mozzerella Cheese, Egg and Parsley in a bowl until combined.
Start layering your lasagna in your slow cooker… Sauce, noodles,
Cheese Mixture,
Then start again with the sauce and repeat two more times (three times total) Top with remaining sauce and cook on low for about 5 hours. Top with Mozzerella and Parmesean Cheese and cover for an additional 10-20 mins or until melted!
Then impress your family when you can serve dinner with ease! Best to cut small portions, since it’s pretty deep!
I love that this recipe uses a combination of Ricotta and Cottage cheese, because I like how the cottage cheese calms down the flavor of the ricotta a bit! If you prefer all ricotta or all cottage cheese, by all means substitute them in!
Here is the full recipe:
- ½ lb. Ground Beef (or turkey)
- ½ lb. Ground Sausage
- 1 jar Barilla Marinara Sauce
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup Ricotta Cheese
- 1 cup Cottage Cheese
- 1 pkg. Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
- ¼ cup Parmesan Cheese
- 1 egg
- 1 Tbsp dried parsley
- 6 lasagna noodles, uncooked
- Brown meats in a skillet and drain. Stir in Barilla spaghetti sauce and water (pour the water into the sauce jar and shake to get excess sauce!).
- Mix ricotta, cottage cheese, ½ of the Parmesan, ½ of the mozzarella, egg and parsley.
- Put 1 cup of the meat sauce into your slow cooker, and top with 2 noodles (broken to fit) and ⅓ of the cheese mixture. Repeat two more times, and cover with remaining meat sauce. Cover with lid.
- Cook on low anout 5 hours. Top with remaining cheeses, cover and let the cheese melt-about 10-20 mins.
I am definitely going to try this recipe. I am not the cook in the family (husband is) and if I make this and it turns out as great as I think it will he just might keel over! hahaha Thanks for the recipe!!
I would have never thought you could make lasagna in the crock pot! I rarely make it because it’s kind of difficult, but I believe I could handle making it like this. We all love lasagna, but until now, it usually came from Stouffer’s!
Yeah, this has me written all over it. Much easier than the cooking of pasta, layering and having countless things dirty to wash. I’m having some health issues and not able to spend much time in the kitchen on my feet. So I thank you for simplicity and well balanced recipe. And we usually have it all on hand. Tada!
I’ve never heard of using a slow cooker for lasagna! It sounds so easy and looks so yummy that I’ll have to give it a try 🙂
Lovely, quick recipe!