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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
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• Cuisine

  European >> Italian >> Italian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Rinse cooked lasagna noodles and set aside. Be sure that you don't use more than 12 oz. or the lasagna will be too dry. | 2. Meanwhile, in a dutch oven or other large vessel, put the oil, onion and green bell pepper. Saute over medium heat until the onion is tender. | 3. Add the sausage and garlic and stir-fry until well browned, chopping up the meat as you stir, to make sure all of the pieces are small. | 4. Add the diced tomatoes, tomato paste, parsley, oregano, basil and 1 teaspoons salt. Reduce heat to low and simmer for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. | 5. Meanwhile, press out the water from the thawed spinach so that it is very dry. Put the spinach into a medium-size mixing bowl. | 6. Add the cottage cheese, egg, 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese, 1 teaspoons salt and black pepper to the spinach. Stir until well mixed. | 7. In another medium-size bowl put the grated Mozzarella cheese. | 8. In a lasagna pan that you have oiled, put down 1/3 of the tomato-meat sauce. | 9. Cover with 1/2 of the lasagna noodles. | 10. Top with 1/2 of the spinach-cottage cheese filling. | 11. Top with half of the mozzarella cheese. | 12. Repeat using 1/3 of the tomato-meat sauce, remaining noodles, remaining spinach filling and mozzarella cheese. | 13. Top with the remaining 1/3 of the tomato-meat sauce and sprinkle 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese over the very top. | 14. Bake in a 350 degrees oven for 45 minutes. | 15. You might wonder whether or not there is enough tomato sauce, but once the lasagna heats up and the cheese gets gooey, there is enough sauce. I don't like a a lasagna with lots of runny heavy tomato sauce that covers the taste of everything else in the lasagna. If you feel like you need a bit more, add an 8 oz. can of tomato sauce to the tomato-meat sauce. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
lasagna noodle	12	ounces		302.6	0.0	67.32	1.7
oil	3	tablespoons		336.384	0.0	0.1075	38.2003
onion	1		diced	64.0	14.944	1.76	0.16
green bell pepper	1/2		diced	302.6	0.0	67.32	1.7
italian sausage	1		mild	1569.4315	2.9484	64.637	142.1107
garlic	1	teaspoon	minced	4.172	0.9257	0.1781	0.013999999999999999
tomato	30	ounces	diced canned	195.6115	43.3747	10.2058	1.7009999999999998
tomato paste	6	ounces		139.4795	32.1653	7.3482	0.7995
parsley	1/4	cup	minced	5.4	0.9495	0.4455	0.1185
oregano	1	teaspoon	dried	2.65	0.6892	0.09	0.0428
basil	1	teaspoon	dried	0.2032	0.0234	0.0278	0.0057
salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
spinach	10	ounces	chopped thawed frozen	62.3689	11.0563	6.2369	0.8505
curd cottage cheese	16	ounces	curd	302.6	0.0	67.32	1.7
egg	1		beaten	71.5	0.36	6.28	4.755
parmesan cheese	1/4	cup		74.0	8.0	8.0	1.0
salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
black pepper	1/4	teaspoon		1.4432	0.3677	0.0597	0.0187
mozzarella cheese	1		grated	-	-	-	-
parmesan cheese	1/4	cup		74.0	8.0	8.0	1.0

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.