Thursday, February 28, 2008

Overnight or Super Easy Lasagna


I was feeling guilty about the bread recipe I just shared. So I'm going to give you a great lasagna recipe that is actually from Weight Watchers but you can't tell at all. The best part of this recipe (well there are a couple of good parts) is that you don't have to boil the noodles, it's super cheesy without being greasy, it's very easy and can be made up to 48 hours before you bake it or just before you bake it. So you can plan ahead or not. Flexible lasagna, that should be it's title. No, flexible, non greasy, super cheesy, yummy lasagna that will make you feel less guilty about eating that bread. Add a salad with my dad's healthy salad dressing and you can eat 1/2 the loaf.


1 pkg jimmy dead reduced fat breakfast sausage (in the tube)

1 jar prego tomato, onion and garlic spaghetti sauce

1 15 oz container of lite ricotta cheese

1 lb skim or part skim mozzarella cheese

1 egg

1 TB dried oregano

2 TB Parmesan cheese

1 can sliced mushrooms, drained

1 can sliced olives, drained

1 can diced tomatoes not drained

10 lasagna noodles (not baked) the ruffled edges kind

1 cup water


Cook and crumble sausage. Take paper towel and wipe up some grease in bottom of pan although there really isn't much. Add mushrooms, olives, spaghetti sauce, diced tomatoes and water. Cook until it barely comes to a simmer then take off the heat. Beat egg, ricotta and oregano in a separate bowl. Grab your 9x13 pan. Layer a little bit of meat sauce in bottom of pan just so noodles won't stick. Add layer of noodles. Spread 1/2 ricotta mixture on top of noodles. (a rubber spatula works good for this part) Sprinkle half the mozzarella cheese on top. Spoon about 1/3 of meat sauce on top of mozzarella. Repeat process with noodles, ricotta, mozzarella and then the rest of the meat sauce. Top with 2 TB of Parmesan. Cover with foil and pop in the fridge until you are ready to bake it. Or proceed to baking directions now.


Baking: Bake UNCOVERED at 350 for 55 minutes. Take out of oven and cover tightly with foil for 15 minutes. Let sit another 5 to 10 minutes uncovered. A weight watcher portion is 1/10th of the pan. In reality it feeds about 8 people max if you have salad and bread and 6 if you don't. We always add 2 cans olives and 2 cans of mushrooms just because I HAVE to change recipes (it's a thing I have) and we really like mushrooms and olives around here.

2 comments:

Kara said...

Amy,
This is Amber's neighbor. I saw your blog on Amber's and decided to come and have a look. I was wondering if you knew how many points this lasagna is?

Amy said...

6 points! For 1/10th of the lasagna. It's awesome. Thanks for visiting my blog.