Sweet & Spicy Italian Sausage Lasagna
Ingredients
1 box lasagna noodles
8-10 cups tomato sauce (see notes)
1/2 cup parmesan cheese
4 cups mozzarella cheese
2 links spicy Italian sausage
2 links sweet Italian sausage
1 cup fresh basil, chopped
CHEESE FILLING
2/3 cup parmesan cheese, shredded
15 oz ricotta cheese
2 tbsp fresh basil, chopped
1 tsp fresh/dried oregano
1 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp (each) salt & black pepper
1 egg
Directions
Preheat oven to 375F. In a medium size pot on medium heat, remove sausage from skin and break up in pan. Saute until fully cooked through about 5-7 minutes. Stir sauce in with sausage.
Mix all of the cheese filling ingredients together in a bowl.
In a large 13×9 baking dish, layer: 1 1/2 cups sauce, lasagna noodles, spread ricotta filling (1 1/2 inch size scoops in center of each noodle)*, mozzarella cheese, fresh chopped basil. Repeat process until done. Layer top with rest of mozzarella and parmesan cheese.
Bake for 20 minutes covered with foil and 20 minutes uncovered. Serve with fresh basil on top and parmesan cheese.
Notes
Tomato Sauce – use my family’s famous San Marzano Tomato Sauce in this recipe. It’s the most popular recipe on my blog with so much rich flavor, fresh herbs, and is easily the best tomato sauce I’ve ever had.
Ricotta – Use a cookie scoop to easily measure out the ricotta filling when adding to the lasagna.
This can serve 8 bigger slices of lasagna or 10 smaller portions.
Nutrition
Calories: 375 kcal
Saturated Fat 0g
Trans Fat 0g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0g
Monounsaturated Fat 0g
Cholesterol 45.7mg
Sodium 725.8mg
Potassium 0mg
Carbohydrates 36.3g
Fiber 0g
Protein 33.3g
Vitamin C 0mg
Calcium 0mg
Iron 0mg