I know it’s like 100 degrees outside.
And you’re not in the mood for lasagna.
But I had to share. Cause I finally found a lasagna recipe that I love. And it’s easy and healthy (relative to other lasagnas).
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Anyways…back to food! I love this lasagna because it includes spinach and mushrooms. It’s easy because I use no boil noodles. And it’s healthy because I use grass-fed beef and brown rice noodles.
Have you used no boil noodles for lasagna before? They’re the best! No more overcooking, tearing, and cursing your noodles.
Another reason I like no boil noodles is because I can hold the pre-cooked noodles in my hand and spread the cheese/spinach mixture right onto them before placing the noodles in the dish. It makes that tricky part of lasagna assembly (where you have to spread a semi-solid cheese mixture onto soggy noodles) so easy.
For this recipe, I use grass-fed ground beef from Redmond Farms that I buy at Real Foods Market. I use Jovial gluten free brown rice pasta no boil noodles. And I use Field Day Organic Traditional Marinara Pasta Sauce.
Regular noodles and no boil noodles aren’t interchangeable. Since this recipe uses no boil noodles, it calls for a lot of sauce. If using regular noodles—use less sauce.
I really love lasagna. I love it hot out of the oven. And I love it the next day as leftovers. It’s just so dang good. It was worth heating up my kitchen for it.
- 1 Tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 med onion, diced
- 6 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 cups mushrooms, diced
- 1 tsp oregano
- ½ tsp red pepper flakes
- 1 lb grass-fed ground beef
- 32 oz marinara sauce
- unrefined sea salt, to taste
- pepper, to taste
- 1½ cups chopped spinach (fresh or frozen)
- 15 oz ricotta cheese
- ⅓ cup grated parmesan cheese
- 1 egg
- 12 no boil lasagna noodles
- 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Heat olive oil in a large pan over medium heat.
- Add onion and saute for 2-3 minutes or until soft.
- Add garlic, mushrooms, oregano, and red pepper flakes and cook for 3-4 minutes or until mushrooms are soft.
- Add ground beef and cook until browned.
- Add marinara sauce and simmer for 5 minutes on medium-low heat.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
- In a large mixing bowl combine spinach, ricotta, parmesan, egg and mix well.
- In a 9×13 baking dish, cover the bottom with about 1½ cups of meat sauce.
- Take four noodles and spread about half of the cheese/spinach mixture on them.
- Place the noodles on top of the meat sauce.
- Top with about ½ of the remaining meat sauce mixture.
- Take another four noodles and spread the remaining cheese mixture on top, place them in the dish.
- Place the last four noodles on top of the cheese mixture.
- Pour all of the remaining sauce over the noodles.
- Sprinkle with mozzarella cheese.
- Cover dish loosely with aluminum foil and bake for 40 minutes (you may want to set it on a baking sheet to catch any drips).
- Remove foil and bake for an additional 10 minutes, or until the sauce is slightly bubbly.
- Allow to cool for 10 minutes before slicing and serving.
*Adapted from Beef, Spinach and Mushroom Lasagna at Baking Bites.
Made this for a big family dinner and everyone loved it!
I’m glad you liked it. It’s one of my favorites!
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Hi Katie,
Can you use regular noodles for this i.e.NOT no boil?
Hi Susan, this is written on the recipe
Regular noodles and no boil noodles aren’t interchangeable. Since this recipe uses no boil noodles, it calls for a lot of sauce. If using regular noodles—use less sauce.
Thank you so much for sharing this! It was amazing!
This is the best lasagna recipe I’ve found. I put in generous amounts of the red pepper flakes so it was a probably a bit more spicy than the recipe, and found a recipe on line for the marinara sauce. It was fabulous! We loved the garlic and mushrooms in it.
Is the dish size in inches? I’m Roman new Zealand and we use the metric system
I love this recipe! It’s now my go-to lasagna recipe!
Margie says
It was so good, everyone in my family had a second serving!!
Toubi says
Shouldn’t the meet sauce be cooked a little more?
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Barbara says
As anyone ever frozen this recipe before?
Amanda says
I have and it does fine. I actually put it straight into a cold oven and let the casserole pan warm up slowly as the oven gets to temp. I do that because I worry about anything trying to separate if I leave it to thaw in the fridge overnight or on the counter for a while. I usually have to cook it for another 15-20 minutes, but it turns out great! ☺
DIANE LIEBERMAN says
All the time! I refrigerate overnight, slice into individual servings, wrap in saran, and put 6-8 servings into a baggie. I’m making it again tomorrow! It is one of my go-to meals!
I really liked this recipe. My pan was a bit larger than 9×13, so I added finely diced bell peppers and mixed lean ground beef with spicy ground sausage. I used 2 packs of frozen spinach and about 25oz of skim milk ricotta. I squeezed the defrosted spinach out in a cheese cloth to reduce the moisture. My family really loved the result.
Loved loved loved this! A true winner 10 out of 10!
You gotta make this!