Cheeseburger Lasagna

Ingredients

  • 1 lb. lean (at least 80%) ground beef
  • 2 cans (15 oz. each) tomato sauce
  • 1 cup ketchup
  • ½ cup water
  • 2 tablespoons dry onion soup mix (half 1-oz. package)
  • 2 eggs (we used large eggs)
  • 2 cups cottage cheese
  • ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese
  • 8 uncooked lasagna noodles
  • 1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese (4 oz.)
  • 1 cup shredded Colby-Monterey Jack cheese blend (4 oz.)

Directions

  1. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees. Take a 3-quart saucepan out (we just used a large skillet) and set the heat to medium-high. Add the ground beef to the saucepan, stirring frequently until the beef’s fully cooked. Take the saucepan off the heat, draining any grease before stirring in the tomato sauce, ketchup, water, and the soup mix.
  2. Take a medium-sized bowl out and add the eggs to it, beating them well. Now mix in the cottage cheese and the Parmesan cheese.
  3. Take a 13 x 9-inch (3-quart) glass baking dish out. Spoon 1 ½ cups of meat sauce in the bottom of the baking dish (we had 4 ½ cups of the meat sauce remaining afterwards). Lay 4 of the noodles down on top of the meat sauce (it’s okay if the noodles don’t touch the ends of the dish). Take half of the cottage cheese mixture and spread it over the noodles, followed by half of the remaining meat mixture.
  4. Repeat those layers with the remaining noodles, cheese mixture, and the meat sauce. Sprinkle the shredded cheese over the top. Cover the dish loosely with foil (spraying the inside of the foil with cooking spray if you’re using regular foil as compared to nonstick foil) and stick the dish in the oven afterwards.
  5. Cook the lasagna for 1 hour or until the lasagna looks bubbly and the noodles are tender (if the noodles can get pierced with the tip of a sharp knife, they’re good to go). Take the foil off and stick the baking dish back in the oven for 10 to 15 minutes more or until the shredded cheese has melted. Let the lasagna stand for 15 minutes before serving.

We know it’s not the prettiest lasagna and the flavor is just okay, but when you’re scraping by at the end of the month, this recipe can help stretch the budget ! What we loved about it was that it was cheap, filling, and very quick and easy to make. We loved that the noodles didn’t have to be cooked ahead of time ! While it does take a while for it to cook, you can spend that time either relaxing or getting something else done before dinner’s ready. We know this isn’t a glowing review, but we want you to know that we’re honest with you. Sometimes we don’t have the money to make what we would really like to fix. We hope that you can relate to that and that this helps you out when your money is tight as well.

This is the nicest looking piece we could take a picture of, the ONLY nice looking piece really. If we’d taken a picture of what the lasagna looked like as a whole, you might not have wanted to give this recipe a try !

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Hope you enjoy life !

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