Mima's Lasagna

 My Mima's Lasagna Recipe!

1 cup minced onion

2 cloves garlic, minced

1 (28 ounce) can no salt crushed tomatoes

1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste

2(6.5 ounce) can no salt canned tomato sauce

1 teaspoon white sugar

3 tablespoons ketchup

2 teaspoons red pepper flakes

1 teaspoon dried basil

1 teaspoon Italian seasoning

2 teaspoons ground black pepper

1 package lasagna noodles

1 pound lean ground beef

16 ounces ricotta cheese

3/4 cup grated parmesan cheese

Start off by browking the beef, in the pan add 1/3 cup minced onion, 1 teaspoon black pepper, and 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes.

Also start boiling the lasagna noodles, add a splash of oil and a pinch of salt.

To make the sauce start off by adding 2/3 cup onion and the other clove of garlic to the pan with a splash of oil, let that cook for a minute before adding the can of no salt crushed tomatoes.

After that cooks for a minute you can add in the no salt tomato sauce, tomato paste, white sugar, ketchup, dried basil, italian seasoning, garlic salt, and the other teaspoon of black pepper and red pepper flakes.

Cook on simmer for 20 minutes.

Once the burger, noodles and sauce are all ready you can pre heat the oven to 375 degrees and grab a 9x13 baking dish.

I start off by pouring a layer of sauce and the laying down a layer of noodles, on top of the noodles I spread a layer of ricotta cheese.

On top of the ricotta cheese I sprinkle on the cooked burger.

Next I pour on more of the sauce.

Continue this process until you run out of noodles or you reach the top of the pan.

On the top layer I sprinkle on the 3/4 cup of parmesan cheese!!

Cover with foil and place on the bottom rack to bake for 25 minutes.

Remove the foil and continue to bake for another 25 minutes.

Place on a cooling rack and let the dish sit for about 15 minutes before serving, I think that this is the hardest part because it smells so amazing I always just want to cut into it right away!!