momcooks.dadcooks.

In a dutch oven or medium sized pot, brown:

1 pound (450 g) of sweet Italian sausage

1 pound (450 g) of ground beef

1/2 cup (120 mL) of chopped onions

2 cloves of garlic chopped

... until they start to brown about 6 to 9 minutes on a medium low temperature.

Add : 1 (28 ounce) (784 g) can of crushed tomatoes 2 (8 ounce) (230 g) cans of tomato sauce 2 (6 ounce) (168 g) cans of tomato paste 1/2 (120 mL) cup of water

Gently stir this into the cooking meat. If you prefer, just buy those ready ragu/meat sauce, just as i did. it's less the hassle and easier on the pocket too!

Add:

2 tablespoons (30 mL) white sugar 1 teaspoon (5 mL) fennel seed 2 teaspoons (10 mL) fresh Basil leaves chopped 2 tablespoons (30 mL) fresh Italian parsley chopped 1 teaspoon (5 mL) salt 1 teaspoon (5 mL) Italian Seasoning 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 mL) ground pepper

Gently stir these seasoning into the sauce.

Cover the pot and let the meat sauce simmer. Simmer on low heat for 1 hour to an hour and 30 minutes.

Soak 12 lasagna noodles in hot tap water for 15 minutes. [or buy the no boil lasagna, i used barilla] While the noodles are soaking you can make the cheese filling.

In a mixing bowl, mix together: 23 ounces (644 g) of ricotta cheese. 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 mL) fresh grated nutmeg

Add:

1 egg 2 tablespoons (30 mL) fresh Italian parsley chopped Mix these ingredients together with a spoon.

Start building the lasagna layers. Use a 9×13 inch baking pan.

Spread 2 Cups (480 mL) of meat sauce on the bottom of the pan.

Remove your lasagna noodles out of the water bath. Shake water off wet noodles.

Lay 6 noodles across the layer of sauce.

Spread half of the ricotta cheese mixture over the layer of noodles.

Spread 1/2 of the mozzarella cheese over the ricotta layer.

Sprinkle half of the Parmesan cheese over the mozzarella layer

Spread 2 cups (480 mL) of meat sauce over the cheese layer

Lay down the next layer of noodles

Spread the remaining ricotta mixture over noodles

Spread the mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses saving some cheese for the top of the lasagna

Put the last layer of meat sauce on the cheeses

Sprinkle the remaining cheese on top.

Cover with foil

Bake in preheated oven at 350 F (177 C) for 25 minutes

Remove foil and bake uncovered for another 25 minutes.

Remove from oven and allow to cool for approximately 15 minutes.

mom got a whopping ♥♥♥♥♥ out of ♥♥♥♥♥! from dad and kids:)