Baked Lasagna Creole Style Recipe

ingredients

Meat Sauce
2 pounds ground beef
8 ounces crawfish or shrimp, pureed
1/2 cup olive oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 cup onion, chopped
1/3 cup celery, chopped fine
2 tablespoons parsley, chopped fine
2 cans (14 ounce size) Italian-style tomatoes and juice, chopped
2 cans (6 ounce size) tomato paste
1 can (8 ounce size) tomato sauce
2 teaspoons Creole seasoning
1 package shrimp Creole mix
2 cups water
2 packages (10 ounce size) lasagna noodles

Cheese Sauce
1 package (16 ounce size) Ricotta cheese
1 package (11 ounce size) cream-style cottage cheese
2 tablespoons parsley, chopped fine
1 1/2 teaspoon Creole seasoning
3 eggs, beaten
1 cup Parmesan cheese
2 pounds Mozzarella cheese slices

directions

For Meat Sauce: To a large saucepan, add olive oil and preheat. Add ground meat, pureed crawfish, onion and celery. Saute until brown stirring occasionally to prevent sticking. Stir in garlic and parsley, cook over low heat for 10 minutes.

Add next six ingredients to meat mixture. Blend thoroughly and cook over low heat until thick, about 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 minutes.

While sauce is cooking, prepare lasagna noodles according to package direction. Rinse with cool water and allow to drain.

For Cheese Sauce: To suitable mixing bowl, add first six ingredients and blend thoroughly. Set aside.

For Assembly: To a greased 15" x 20" x 2" or two 13" x 9" x 2" baking dishes, add in layers of 1/3 meat sauce, 1/3 of mozzarella cheese slices, and 1/3 of ricotta and cottage cheese mix. Cover with a layer of cooked lasagna noodles.

Repeat layer steps until ingredients are depleted. Remember to cover with meat sauce and cheese.

Bake in a 350 degrees F preheated oven for 30 minutes or until hot.

nutrition data

Nutritional data has not been calculated yet.