1 jar marinara sauce
3 cups water
8 oz lasagna noodles
1 lb Italian turkey sausage (casings removed - hot or spicey is up to you!)
2 garlic cloves pressed
2 oz Parmesan cheese
2 tbl chopped fresh parsley
1 cup whole milk ricotta
1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
1/4 tsp fresh ground black pepper
additional Parmesan cheese to taste (optional)
1. Combine sauce and water in a skillet, cover and bring to boil.
2. Meanwhile, wrap noodles in a towel and break crosswise into quarters. Stir noodles into sauce. Cover and reduce heat to simmer 16-18 minutes or until noodles are tender, stirring occasionally.
3. As noodles cook, place sausage into another skillet and cook until no longer pink, breaking it into pieces as you go (in other words, you want the sausage to end up into little chunks, as if you were browning beef). Add pressed garlic and cook 1 minute. Remove from heat. Stir sausage into noodles/sauce mixture.
4. Meanwhile, grate Parmesan cheese, chop parsley, and combine all cheeses and 1 tbl of parsley and black pepper, mix well. Scoop cheese mix over noodles and cover skillet, simmer gently about 3-5 minutes or until cheese is melted.
5. To serve, sprinkle with remaining parsley and additional cheese if desired.
3 comments:
I had this - it was VERY good!
Can you explain that move sauce and cook till pink breaking noodles part? I don't understand :(
Kirstin - I fixed it. I had made a typo! I meant you place the sausage into another skillet and cook it. (re-read and see if it makes sense) Also, do you get the breaking noodles part? Basically, instead of putting a while lasagna noodle in the pan with the sauce/water ...... you break it into about 3 pieces so that they cook faster. It really is an easy and quick meal that tastes like lasagna but only takes 30 minutes!
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