Lasagna
- 1 lb mozzarella cheese
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 12 lb ground turkey
- 14 lb Italian turkey sausage links or 14 lb italian chicken sausage
- 4 (15 ounce) cans tomato sauce
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 9 lasagna noodles (about 7 ounces)
- 2 (15 ounce) packages ricotta cheese
- 1 cup parmesan cheese (grated)
- 2 eggs
- Shred the cheese.
- Before you start, be sure an adult is nearby to help.
- Hold a box grater-shredder on a plate with one hand.
- Holding the mozzarella cheese in your other hand, rub the cheese over the large shredding holes of the box grater-shredder.
- Cook the meat.
- Ask an adult to help you now.
- Put the olive oil in a large saute pan and set it over medium heat.
- Add the ground turkey.
- Using a wooden spoon, break up any large chunks.
- Squeeze the sausages from their casings.
- Add the sausage meat to the saute pan.
- Using the wooden spoon, keep pushing the ground turkey and the sausage around in the pan until they are no longer pink.
- This will take about 5 minutes.
- Simmer the sauce.
- Add the tomato sauce to the pan and stir to coat the meat.
- Heat the mixture until small bubbles start to form in the tomato sauce; this is called a simmer.
- Simmer the sauce, stirring occasionally, for 10 to 12 minutes.
- Remove from the heat and set aside.
- Cook the pasta.
- Fill a large pot three-fourths full with water.
- Place over high heat and bring to a rolling boil.
- When the water is boiling, add the salt.
- Drop in the noodles, then push them down into the water with a long-handled wooden fork.
- Boil the noodles, stirring occasionally, until they are flexible but still a little chewy, 7 to 8 minutes, or according to the instructions on the package of noodles.
- Make the filling.
- While the pasta is cooking, you'll have time to make the cheese filling: In a large bowl, combine the ricotta cheese and 2/3 cup of the Parmesan cheese.
- One at a time, crack the eggs into a small bowl and check for shells.
- Then pour the eggs into the bowl with the cheeses.
- Using a wooden spoon, beat until smooth.
- Set a colander in the sink.
- Ask an adult to help you pour the noodles into the colander.
- Rinse with cold water and drain again.
- Start to layer.
- Position an oven rack in the center of the oven.
- Preheat the oven to 350F
- Put a 9-by-13-by-2-inch baking dish on the counter in front of you.
- Arrange the tomato sauce, drained lasagna noodles, ricotta mixture, mozzarella cheese and the remaining 1/3 cup Parmesan cheese next to you.
- Use a rubber spatula to spread 1/2 cup of the tomato sauce in the bottom of the baking dish.
- Lay 3 lasagna noodles, side by side, over the sauce.
- Spread half of the ricotta over the noodles.
- Top with one-third of the mozzarella.
- Spread 2 cups tomato sauce over the cheese.
- Finish layering.
- Repeat the layering, adding 3 more noodles, the rest of the ricotta, half of the remaining mozzarella cheese and another 2 cups tomato sauce on top.
- Top with the final 3 noodles, the remaining 2 cups tomato sauce and the rest of the mozzarella cheese.
- Sprinkle the finished lasagna with the remaining Parmesan cheese.
- Cover the baking dish with aluminum foil.
- Bake, cool and serve.
- Put the baking dish in the oven and bake for 30 minutes.
- Ask an adult to help you remove the foil.
- Bake, uncovered, until the cheese is lightly golden and the lasagna is bubbling around the edges, about 30 minutes more.
- Ask an adult to help you take the dish out of the oven.
- Set the lasagna on a wire cooling rack and let cool for 5 to 10 minutes.
- Using a metal spatula, cut down through the pasta layers to make 8 or 10 squares.
- Lift each square onto a plate to serve.
- Serves 8 to 10.
mozzarella cheese, olive oil, ground turkey, italian turkey sausage, tomato sauce, salt, lasagna noodles, ricotta cheese, parmesan cheese, eggs
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/lasagna-285313 (may not work)