Crocket Pot Lasagna

Total Time: 5 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 5 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 lb ground beef or 1 lb turkey
• 1 lb ground italian sausage
• 1 medium onion, diced (optional)
• 1 small green pepper, diced (optional)
• 4 ounces mixed mushrooms, diced (optional)
• 4 garlic cloves, chopped (optional)
• italian seasoning, salt, pepper
• 4 cups mozzarella cheese
• 1 (16 ounce) container small curd cottage cheese (small container) or 1 (16 ounce) container ricotta cheese (small container)
• 2 (24 ounce) jars spaghetti sauce
• 8 uncooked lasagna noodles (dreamfield's)

Recipe

• 1 brown the meat along with the onions and garlic along with seasonings, drain off the fat.
• 2 spray a large, oval-shaped crock pot with non-stick spray – better yet, use a crock pot liner for easier cleanup.
• 3 put a small bit of spaghetti sauce in the crock pot – just enough to lightly cover the bottom.
• 4 then, place in 4 of the uncooked lasagna noodles. breaking them up, as necessary.
• 5 layer on half of the ground meat.
• 6 now, pour on a jar of the spaghetti sauce – i also recommend adding some salt and pepper to this sauce layer to cook inches but this is up to you and depends on what sauce you’re using.
• 7 then dollop on half of the cottage cheese or ricotta.
• 8 put on 2 cups of the mozzarella.
• 9 now, repeat the layers: noodles, meat, cottage/ricotta and mozzarella.
• 10 put crock pot on medium for 4-5 hours, if your crock pot does not have medium, then 3 hours on high, 1 on low.