Cooks Country Skillet Lasagna

tara9871's Note:

Taken from Cooks Country

• Total Time: 50 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 1 (28 ounce) can diced tomatoes
• water
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 medium onion , minced
• salt
• 3 garlic cloves , minced
• 1⁄8; teaspoon red pepper flakes
• 1 lb ground beef
• 10 curly edged lasagna noodles , broken into 2 inch pieces
• 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
• ½ cup grated parmesan cheese , plus
• 2 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese
• pepper
• 1 cup ricotta cheese
• 3 tablespoons chopped fresh basil

Directions:

1. Pour tomatoes with their juices into 1 quart liquid measuring cup. Add water until mixture measures 1 quart.
2. Heat oil in large nonstick skillet over medium heat until shimmering. Add onion and 1/2 teaspoon salt and cook until onion begins to brown, about 5 minutes. Stir in garlic and pepper flakes snd cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add ground meat and cook, breaking apart meat, until no longer pink, about 4 minutes.
3. Scatter pasta over meat but do not stir. pour diced tomatoes with juices and tomato sauce over pasta. Cover and bring to simmer. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer stirring occasionally, until pasta is tender, about 20 minutes.
4. Remove skillet from heat and stir in 1/2 cup Parmesan. Season with salt and pepper. Dot with heaping tablespoons ricotta, cover, and let stand off heat for 5 minutes. Sprinkle with basil and remaining 3 tablespoons parmesan. Serve.

Reviews

[Madefromscratch]

We really enjoy this recipe. I've made it several times and always comes out tasty and it's fast. I use 1/2 ground beef, 1/2 italian sausage. Having it for dinner tonight. Yum!

[Roxygirl in Colorado]

I've been intrigued by the idea of skillet lasagna so I gave it a try. It was fun and stress-free! My kids are not lasagna fans but they both ate this. I think it was because it was more "free form" and easy to skip over the ricotta! I was very short on hamb. and used 1 jumbo frozen patty and added some diced zucchini in with the onion (great way to hide it!). I cooked mine a bit longer because my noodles were really al dente. I also added about 3/4 cup mozz. I will definitely make this again- so much easier than lasagna and only one dirty skillet! Thanks Tara- Roxygirl

[hepcat1]

I had completely forgotten about this recipe until I was browsing through the current reviews! I made this quite some time ago when it came out in Cook's Country. I love how easy this is to make without having to heat the oven! It's a great recipe that I'm so glad I found again!