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Ingredients For The Lasagna Sauce: • 1 tablespoon olive oil • ½ pound chicken sausages, chopped • ½ cup chopped onion • 1 ½ large garlic cloves, chopped • 1 teaspoons dried oregano • 1/8 teaspoon dried crushed red pepper • 1 can crushed tomatoes with added puree • 1 can diced tomatoes with green pepper and onion with juices Ingredients For The Lasagna Filling: • ¾ cup fresh basil leaves • 7 ½ ounce plus ½ cup ricotta cheese • ¾ cups grated mozzarella cheese • 1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese • ½ large egg • ¼ teaspoon salt • Ground black pepper to taste Ingredients For The Lasagna: • 6 no-boil lasagna noodles • 1 ½ cups grated mozzarella cheese • ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese • Nonstick olive oil spray Directions For The Lasagna Sauce: 1. To make the lasagna sauce, heat the olive oil in heavy pot over a medium-high flame. 2. Add in sausages, onion, garlic, oregano and crushed red pepper and sauté them all together till the sausage is cooked through. 3. Add in crushed tomatoes and diced tomatoes with juices to ensure the lasagna sauce gets the adequate flavours. 4. Bring the lasagna sauce to boil and then reduce the flame, simmering for around 5 minutes to meld the flavours. 5. Add the salt and pepper according to your taste for seasoning and mix the lasagna sauce well. 6. Your lasagna sauce is ready to be used! Directions For The Lasagna Filling: 1. Chop the basil leaves finely and add to a food processor bowl. 2. Add in the ricotta, mozzarella, Parmesan, egg, and salt and pepper to taste. 3. Blend in such a way that the mixture is combined thoroughly, but still a little chunky for the perfect lasagna filling. Directions For The Lasagna: 1. Preheat the oven to 180° C. 2. Spread a thin layer of the lasagna sauce at the bottom of a lasagna baking dish. Arrange 2 of the lasagna noodles on sauce. Drop some of the filling over noodles and then spread evenly to cover. Sprinkle a good amount of the mozzarella cheese and Parmesan cheese. 3. Repeat the procedure of layering the lasagna sauce, noodles, filling and cheeses till the last layer is the remaining 2 noodles. 4. Put the remaining lasagna sauce on top of noodles. Sprinkle with remaining cheeses. Cover the lasagna dish with the foil making sure it doesn’t touch the cheese or sauce. 5. Bake lasagna around 30-40 minutes. 6. Carefully uncover. Bake again till the noodles are tender, the lasagna sauce bubbles and edges of lasagna are golden brown, around 15-20 minutes. 7. Cool it for around 15 minutes before cutting serving. Author Bio : Rajiv Tiwari is an out and out gourmet whose love of food has made him travel to all top food destinations. In this bouquet of articles Rajiv discusses some quick tips on food recipes, and shows us how you can make people enchanted with lipsmacking food recipes. The Lasagna Sauce, lasagna dish
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