It’s winter and you want some comfort food warm cheese with some pasta, can’t go wrong! We used our own handmade lasagna noodles rather than store-bought you can use that if you want. Also if you don’t want to use Ricotta cheese you can use Cottage Cheese instead Once it is baked you can’t taste the difference and its usually cheaper.
Ingredients
Lasagna Ingredients
9sheets lasagna noodles
3cupsroasted chickenshredded
1cupmozzarella cheese
Parmesan Sauce Ingredients
2cupwhole milk
2cupswater
2teaspoonschicken bouillon
½cupyellow onionabout ½ large onion, chopped
2clovesgarlic
5Tablespoonsbutter
10ozpackage chopped frozen spinach
⅓cupall-purpose flour
½cupparmesan cheese
½cupdry white wineoptional
¼teaspoonsmoked paprika
Salt and pepper to taste
Ricotta Cheese Ingredients
15ozricotta cheesesee notes
1large egg
½cupparmesan cheeseshredded
1cupshredded mozzarella cheese
Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
In a large pot over medium high heat, boil lasagna noodles according to package instructions. Cook until al dente. Remove from heat and rinse with cold water to stop the noodles from continuing to cook. Add to a bowl with a small amount of oil to prevent the noodles from sticking. Set aside
Sauce Instructions
Using a fine mesh strainer, run luke warm water over spinach until no longer frozen.
In a small saucepan over medium heat, add the oil. Sweat the onion for 5 minutes or until soft and translucent.
Melt the butter in the saucepan. Add the flour. Cook for 2 – 3 minutes or until raw flour smell dissipates.
Add the whine and cook for 2 minutes. Add the water, milk,spinach, garlic, billion, paprika, salt, and pepper. Simmer until consistency like gravy is reached
Reduce the heat to low and keep warm until ready to assemble.
Ricotta Cheese Instructions
In a medium size mixing bowl, add all the ingredients for the ricotta cheese mixture. Stir until well mixed.
Lasagna Instructions
Preheat the oven to 375° F.
In a 9 x 13 pan ladle some of the sauce. Place a layer of 3 noodles overlapping each other slightly.
Spread the ricotta mixture over the noodles.
Place the shredded chicken over the ricotta mixture.
Ladle some of the sauce over the chicken.
Repeat for 2 more layers.
Top the lasagna with 1 cup of mozzarella cheese.
Place toothpicks into the lasagna to prevent the cheese from sticking. Cover with tin foil. Cook for 45 minutes. Remove the tin foil and broil on high for 2 minutes or until the cheese starts to brown.
Notes
GOt to say the only downsize is it doesn’t hold the layers as well the more you build I would only go 3 layers. 4 is to much and ends up collapsing and you can’t see the layers. It still taste amazing!