Showing posts with label Lasagna. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lasagna. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Easy Ravioli Lasagna Recipe

EAsy Ravioli Lasgana, no time to cook noodles, no problem use frozen ravioli and have the ultimate lasagna in no time. It's delicious and you can customize it by changing the flavors of the ravioli! Yum!
Hola Amigos! Once in a while we all deserve a break from the kitchen, take a few shortcuts but at the same achieve great and delicious results. This is that kind of recipe. Using frozen ravioli of any kind you would be able to create this lasagna in no time and great taste. 
It freezes wonderfully so you will probably want to  bake 2 and freeze 1 for another lazy day.
You put together your lasagna the same way you would a regular one.  Cover it up, bake and enjoy!



You know you have done a great job when you can cut your lasagna and see all the layers you carefully put together come out so pretty!
Easy Ravioli Lasagna when you have no time to cook use frozen ravioli to make it! Customize it your way by changing the flavors of the ravioli! Delicious, Fast the perfect Freezer Meal

No one can complain there is not enough cheese on this lasagna! Add more veggies to yours by using spinach raviolis instead. Delicious!


Serve it with garlic bread or a green salad. This one is a main dish in itself
Here is the recipe for you friends. Enjoy and remember everything tastes better with a Pinch of Love
Besitos,
Lizy

Ravioli Lasagna Recipe
Ingredients
1 Pound Ground Beef
1 Jar (28 oz) You Favorite Spaghetti Sauce
1 1/2 Package (250z) Frozen Ravioli Cheese, Beef, Spinach, your choice
1  Cup Bechamel Sauce
1 (8oz ) Can Sliced Mushrooms (optional)
1 1/2 Cup Shredded Italian Cheese
Directions
In a large pan, over medium heat, brown beef until no longer pink. Add Spaghetti Sauce and season if necessary. 
Using a 9"x13" lasagna baking dish, layer a 1/3 of the beef sauce, half of the ravioli (frozen or cooked), bechamel sauce, mushrooms and half of the mix of Italian Cheeses. Repeat 1 more layer of ravioli, beef sauce and finish with the rest of the cheese.
Cover and bake in a 365 F oven for 40-45 minutes or until heated up.

Prep Time 30 minutes   Cooking Time 40-45 minutes  Servings 6-8 

Easy Ravioli Lasgna, Easy and quick meal with only a few ingredients but pack with flavor. Change the raviolis to cheese, beef, spinach and have a different meal every time. Perfect Freezer Meal

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Friday, March 8, 2013

Rapidito en Viernes=Quicky Fridays

Lasagna de Platano Maduro=Plantain Lasagna

Hola Amigos and Welcome Friday! Hope you all had a healthy and productive first week of March! Big change this weekend...Spring Forward, yeah we loose 1 hour of sleep but on the positive side, we are gaining 1 hour of daylight to have more fun outdoors working and playing with family and friends.
I'm closing my week with a Latin twist on an Italian classic, Lasagna. It's basically your favorite lasagna recipe but instead of using noodles you will use ripe plantains!

I love Plantains...they are super versatile and you can use them in every single stage, green, yellow, spotted with black dots and black! They are delicious. A few Sundays ago I had the honor of being guest blogger at my friend Cynthia's blog  Fedding Big and More, there I wrote a post just about plantains and how to cook them in all these stages I mentioned before as part of her fantastic series Around The World in 80 Sundays focusing on Panamanian Cuisine. I encourage you my dear friends to visit her blog and this post to learn more about Plantains.
Here is our recipe

Lasagna de Platano Maduro-Plantain Lasagna

Meat Sauce
1 Pound Ground Sirloin
1 Pound Ground Pork
1 Large onion chopped
2 Garlic chopped
1 can (6oz) Tomato paste
1 Large can Fire Roasted Tomatoes
1 bottle of your favorite Spaghetti Sauce
2 Dried Bay leaves
1 Teaspoon sugar
1 TPBS Italian Seasoning 
Salt and Pepper to Taste
Red Pepper Flakes to Taste
On the biggest pot you have, on medium heat, brown sirloin, pork, onion and garlic. Once browned, add tomato paste, roasted tomatoes spaghetti sauce, sugar, italian seasoning, salt and pepper, bay leaves and pepper flakes. Cover and Simmer for 45 minutes.

Bechamel Sauce
1 Stick of butter
4 TBSP flour
4 Cups Milk
1 Tsps Salt
1/2 Tsps freshly grated Nutmeg
1/4 Cup Parmesan Cheese.
On a saucepan on low-medium heat your basic roux adding the flour to the melted butter until the mix turns to a golden color . Little by little add the milk one cup at the time, whisking it so it won't stick to the bottom of your saucepan, add the cheese and keep whisking until it thickens, about 10 minutes. Season with salt and grated nutmeg.

Cheese Mix
1 16oz Container of Cottage Cheese
1 pound Mozzarella Cheese + 1 cup
2 CupsSpinach Leaves washed and rinsed
1 egg
salt and pepper to taste
Add the cheeses to a bowl, stir in the egg. Mix until the egg is incorporated to the cheese mix. Add Spinach and salt and pepper to taste.

6-8 Black Spotted or all Black Plantains
 The plantains peel very easily as I'm showing you here, cut them in an angle so you have like little diamond shaped thin slices as you can also see in the pictures.


Assemble your lasagna as you would a regular one, a little bit of meat sauce, in this case plantains instead of noodles, more meat sauce, bechamel sauce and cheese mix. Another layer of plantains, meat sauce, bechamel and cheese mix. Top it with the extra cup of mozzarella cheese.


Bake in a preheated oven at 375 degrees covered for 25 minutes. Uncover and bake for another 25 minutes. Let it cool before cutting and serving.

Listo,
Serve it with a green salad or a slice or your favorite garlic bread.

I know this is not your typical quick fixing recipe...but you can enjoy it all weekend long with plenty leftover for any other day of the week. 

The amount ingredients given in this recipe will make a regular 9x13 lasagna baking pan. I divided mine in two small ones so I can freeze one and use at a later day!

As you can see...it slices just like your regular lasagna, and believe me folks it's delicious!

I hope you enjoy my little treat today and maybe make this recipe for your family and friends one of these weekends, they would love it, even more because as you know everything tastes better with a Pinch of Love!
Besitos,
Lizy