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Slow Cooker Ground Beef And Zucchini Lasagna
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2-5 hrs
2-5 hrs
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ingredients
1 pound ground beef (optional, may make without it for vegetarian version)
1 tablespoon dried minced onion
3 jars (26 ounce size) spaghetti sauce
3 cups water
1 medium zucchini, sliced thinly
16 lasagna noodles
1 cup Parmesan cheese
Cheese filling
2 containers (15 ounce size) ricotta cheese
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon oregano
1/2 teaspoon basil
directions
If using the beef, brown it until almost done, sprinkling with dried minced onion while sauteing. In a large bowl stir together the spaghetti sauce and water until well mixed. Set aside for later.
Meanwhile, prepare your other ingredients: slice the zucchini and separate the lasagna noodles into groups of 4. In a medium bowl stir together the filling: ricotta cheese, egg and spices. Keep an eye on the beef, it should now be nicely browned and almost cooked through.
Now you're ready to place everything into the slow cooker:
First, pour 2 cups of the sauce over the bottom. Now take 4 of the noodles and break them roughly into fourths, place them over the sauce, trying not to overlap them too much. Pour another cup of sauce over the noodles and then spread/scoop about 1 cup of the ricotta filling on top, followed by half the zucchini slices (about 15 or so) and, if using the beef, half the beef. Spoon another 2 cups of sauce on top and place 4 more of the broken noodles on top. Now, it's just a matter of repeating these steps until you've used all your ingredients. My last layer contained sauce and Parmesan cheese, topped by the noodles, ending with the sauce and topping the whole creation with a final sprinkling of the Parmesan.
Place the lid on the slow cooker and cook for 4 hours on low.
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Crock pots/slow cookers all heat differently. There is no standard among manufacturers. Cooking times are suggested guidelines based on our testing. Please adjust cooking times and temps to work with your brand and model of slow cooker.nutrition data
823 calories, 44 grams fat, 73 grams carbohydrates, 32 grams protein per serving.
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reviews & comments
It really sounds good and i'll have to try it. I admit that i take the lazy way about making pan lasagna to bake in the oven and that is i cook the ground beef and onions in the skillet and after it's cooked, i drain almost all of the fat off the meat and then to that i go ahead and add my ricotta, and sauce. Mix it all up and start layering it in a 9x12 dish. First a layer of the beef sauce/mixture and then a layer of the "no boil" lasagna noodles, then again the beef mixture, cheese, noodles and just keep layering like that until you run out of beef and sauce mixture and make sure that the beef/sauce mixture is the last layer then add more cheese to the top and bake @ 350 for 30 to 40 min. It saves time by not having to layer all the separate ingredients.
November 3, 2009
It was excellent. It wasn't any less work than making lasagna in a pan though.