Recipe Friday - Lasagna

This is the recipe my mom passed on to me, and it's the only one I use now. It's way easy to make and it tastes so good. Plus, it allows for substitutions/additions to fit your own taste.

Ingredients

• 2 - 15oz cans of plain tomato sauce
• 9 lasagna noodles
• 1lb lean ground beef or ground turkey
• 16 to 32oz mozzarella cheese - thinly sliced**
  Salt, pepper, crushed red pepper, basil, oregano, paprika, and onion powder (I rarely measure these out, I just add to taste for each one)

Directions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees

• Spray bottom of 13x9 baking dish with cooking spray

• Brown ground beef or turkey in large skillet

• Cook lasagna noodles according to package directions

• Once meat is cooked, add both cans of tomato sauce to skillet and stir to combine

• Add spices to taste

• Once meat sauce is warmed throughout, add one fourth of the sauce to the bottom of the greased baking dish

• Cover sauce with three lasagna noodles

• Add one fourth of the sauce on top of the first layer of noodles

• Then cover sauce with slices of mozzarella cheese

• Add a second layer of three noodles, cover with sauce, and cover with cheese

• Repeat for the third layer, making sure all edges of the noodles are covered with sauce

• Bake, uncovered, for 20 minutes

• Once done, let the dish sit for 5 minutes to set up (this makes it easier to serve from the pan)

**You can add more or less cheese to suit your taste. I've even used some Ricotta for one layer and it was yummy!