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Everyone at my house loves lasagna, and if I can put it into my slow cooker, then I am one happy mom! I love having dinner ready and waiting in the evening, rather than scrambling around trying to throw something together.
This is a pretty straightforward and easy recipe. Be sure not to skimp on the sauce. Two jars sounds like a lot, but if you don’t use two it is going to be dry.
Crock Pot Lasagna
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Total time
Serves: 6-8
Ingredients
- 8 lasagna noodles, uncooked
- 1 lb. ground beef
- 1 tsp. Italian Seasoning
- 2-28 oz. jars spaghetti sauce
- ⅓ cup water
- 4 oz. can sliced mushrooms
- 15 oz. ricotta cheese
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- Break noodles.
- Place half in bottom of greased slow cooker.
- Brown ground beef in sauce pan, drain, stir in Italian seasoning.
- Spread half over noodles in slow cooker.
- Layer half of sauce and water, half of mushrooms, half of ricotta cheese, and half of mozzarella cheese over beef.
- Repeat layers with remaining half of ingredients.
- Cover, cook on low 3-5 hours.
Tips for cooking lasagna in your crock pot:
- Use 2 jars spaghetti sauce. Be sure to put plenty on the top and sides
- Ricotta can be substituted. If you don’t have any ricotta cheese, use cottage cheese or cream cheese. I substituted one brick of cream cheese. It tasted just like ricotta. I just diced it up and spread the dollups all around.
- Lasagna noodles can be substituted. You may use bowtie or penne and make it like a baked ziti. (Use what you have!)
- Grease the whole cooker. I forgot this step the first time I tried this, and it was sticking like crazy!
- Adjust the cook time. With my slow cooker, 5 hours was WAY too long. I could easily put it on low for 3 hours and it does just fine. It depends on your cooker, but remember, for this recipe, all it is doing is cooking the noodles.
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Recipe developed by Kelly Hancock ©2010 Faithful Provisions. For personal use only. May not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed for capital gain without prior permission from Kelly Hancock.
I made this with the changes you suggested and it turned out nicely. I started at 2:30 and we ate at 6:30. So, mine cooked for about 3 1/2 hours. I used 2 jars of sauce like you suggested but also rinsed each jar with a little water and added that to the pot as well. I can’t imagine it with only one jar. The lasagna in whole was tender and saucy.
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I made this tonight and it was super easy and was really good. It’s a keeper and will be repeated!
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If you substitute the pasta for some other kind rather than broken Lasagna noodles….how much do you use?
How can you make this without beef?
Just omit beef from sauce!
Is greasing still needed if a slow cooker liner is used?
I will try this in my crockpot
You will love it!
hi, I fixed this tonight and it is good…just want to make sure….its supposed to be soupy right?
No it’s not! It really depends on your slow cooker. Mine cooks really hot and high and I have to add more sauce to keep it from drying out. Hope it was good!
Is all of the water added with the first layer or is it halved with each layer? Thank you!
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