Recipe: Delicious Crock-Pot Classic Lasagna

Crock-Pot Classic Lasagna. Add a double layer of the uncooked lasagna noodles. Break to fit noodles into slow cooker. Top noodles with a portion of the cheese mixture.

Add a double layer of uncooked lasagna noodles (break to fit) and top with cheeses. Repeat with sauce, noodles and cheeses until all are used up. Stir in the tomato sauce, water, tomato paste, salt and oregano. You can have Crock-Pot Classic Lasagna using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Crock-Pot Classic Lasagna

1. It's 1 lb of ground beef (or with half/half Italian sausage).
2. It's 1 of onion (chopped).
3. Prepare 3-5 cloves of garlic (minced).
4. Prepare 2 (24 oz) of cans seasoned spaghetti sauce.
5. You need 2 cups of ricotta cheese.
6. It's 1/4 cup of parmesan.
7. It's 2 1/2 cups of mozzarella cheese.
8. You need 1 of egg.
9. It's of lasagna noodles.
10. It's of salt&pepper.

Arrange a third of the noodles over sauce (break the noodles to fit if necessary). Combine cheeses; spoon a third of the mixture over noodles. Lasagna noodles: Classic lasagna noodles or the lasagna noodles that no-boil lasagna noodles work well for Crock-Pot lasagna. The noodles don't need to be precooked if using the classic lasagna noodles because it will cook in the slow cooker as the meal cooks and will absorb some of the liquid from the sauce and cheeses.

Crock-Pot Classic Lasagna step by step

1. Start with meat sauce. Saute onions til translucent. Add meat, brown. Drain. Add garlic, continue to cook for 30 seconds. Add tomato sauce, simmer on low with lid askew for 2 hours..
2. Meanwhile, mix ricotta, egg, parmesan, and 1/2 cup mozzarella..
3. In Crock-Pot, add a thin layer of sauce to the bottom. Layer with noodles, ricotta mixture, meat sauce and mozzarella. Add another layer. Finish with noodles, sauce, and mozzarella..
4. Cook low for 4 hours.
5. Tips: For chunkier sauce, add diced tomatoes last 30 mins of sauce simmering. For creamier cheese layer, add cream cheese to ricotta mixture..

Grease the bowl of your slow cooker with a nonstick cooking spray or olive oil. Using the remaining marinara, spread a thin layer on the bottom of the crock pot. Next, add a layer of noodles. Dried regular or no-boil lasagna noodles work equally well in a slow cooker. For lasagna with a kick, look for hot or spicy Italian sausage.