This post was written by Guest Blogger: Kristy Stiers
When you’re hungry for lasagna you don't think about the history of the dish, you might think about the traditional layers of saucy meat creamy cheese and that top crunchy stringy cheese layer. That always has your mouth watering. Did you know that lasagna originated in Greece? Or that the first recorded recipe of lasagna from before the 1400's was written in Great Britain. It was Italy who ended up perfecting lasagna, and this is why most people commonly refer to lasagna as an Italian dish.
A quick stop on Pinterest or Google or any other search
engine for and lasagna recipe, you'll find many different types from Mexican,
vegetarian, even dessert lasagna.
Most common ingredients of lasagna call for Italian sausage or marinara sauce that has been flavored with traditional Italian seasonings
ricotta and mozzarella cheeses. Layered with a nice flat lasagna noodles. Around my house we love our lasagna with the right ratio of
sauce too meat. The cheese has to be creamy and the noodles can't be gummy. It
all has to be that perfect consistency.
We call my recipe farmhouse lasagna because of the ingredients. We like to start off with our own canned tomatoes simmer it with the seasonings so it can cook down and before it can be assembled. We also use our own sausage that we make by hand and we make the creamy cheese layer out of cottage cheese and we use our homegrown eggs from our farm to make the best creamy consistency.
Ingredients:
Two jars of whole tomatoes
6 tablespoons Italian seasoning
1/2 tablespoon minced garlic
About half an onion diced thin
1/2 tablespoon of fennel seed
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 pound ground sausage
1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
A little garlic salt
Pound cottage cheese
Three eggs
2 cups mozzarella cheese
1 box no boil lasagna noodles.
In another skillet, Brown sausage in olive oil, fennel seed
and sprinkle a little garlic salt on it. When the sausage is cooked add that to
the sauce and stir lightly.
In the blender add cottage cheese, eggs and Parmesan cheese then sprinkle a little garlic salt blend till it becomes a creamy texture.
In a baking dish pour a little of the marinara to the
bottom. Add one layer of noodles or sauce on top of it drizzle the cottage
cheese mixture and repeat till you get to the top and then you add the
delicious mozzarella cheese and bake for about an hour till you see the sauces
bubbly in the cheese is melted in a little bit crunchy on the top enjoy!
