With four different cheeses you can’t go wrong with this lasagna recipe. It is flavorful, meaty and most of all super cheesy. A family friendly lasagna recipe that everyone will love!
Last week, July 29th, was National Lasagna Day and it had me thinking about my favorite way to make lasagna. Lasagna was one of the first things I ever learned to cook. I remember my mom teaching me how to make it for Christmas one year. Odd Christmas dinner maybe, but I was moving away to Denver the next day and wanted to learn before I left. She would always make it with my favorite side dish Roasted Parmesan Asparagus. Yummy, just in case there wasn’t enough cheese already. Ha.
My grandma used to make lasagna a different way than my mom did. Since I loved both of their recipes so much I morphed them together and made my own! You can add shredded carrot or zucchini to add in veggies. I like to add black olives and I’ve even added jalapeños for a kick once and loved it!
My next challenge is to try it with homemade noodles! Who has a great noodle recipe for me to try out? Let me know in the comments below!
Enjoy!♥
Cheesy Lasagna Recipe
Ingredients
1 lb ground beef
1/2 lb Hot sausage (I like the flavor it gives, but of course you can use Italian sausage)
1/2 c shredded mozzarella
1 container of ricotta cheese
1/2 triple cheddar shredded cheese
1/4 c parmesan cheese (plus a little extra to sprinkle on top)
oven ready lasagna noodles (or homemade!)
2 jars of your favorite pasta sauce
2 Tbs milk
1/2 tsp garlic salt
Directions
- cook the ground beef and sausage together in a pan. The flavors from the sausage is enough to season all the meat you don’t need to add anymore.
- mix the ricotta, garlic salt, parmesan cheese, and milk together in a bowl
- in a large glass baking dish start to assemble the lasagna. Always start with a thin layer of sauce on the bottom to prevent sticking. Then layer noodles, ricotta mix, meat then sauce. Repeat until all the meat and ricotta is mixed. (usually about three layers, check out the video above for a visual!)
- on the final layer add the shredded cheese to the top, then sprinkle with a handful of parmesan.
- cover with foil and bake at 350° F for an hour. For the last 10 minutes remove the foil.
- Let set for ten minutes, then enjoy!
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YUM!
You had me at cheesy 😍
I love cheesy!
The pictures didn’t even pop up for me and my mouth is still watering! Nothing better than a good lasagna with lots and lots of cheese, garlic bread, and a salad! YUM!
One of my favorite meals exactly!
This looks amazing! I’ve never added cheddar cheese to lasagna, but I love all cheese so I’m sure I’d enjoy it.
It adds a great flavor to the dish!
Lasagna is a family fave!! N those pics look so gooey n yum.
Definitely gonna try the mukti cheese trick!
Thankoooo!
You’re welcome I hope you enjoy!
Ooo I could eat this right now. I can never have enough cheese on my lasagna! 🙂
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I myself am a huge cheese fan myself! lol If you can’t tell!
This just went on my Pinterest board to make once my oven gets fixed! Yummy!
Oh no! Without an oven sounds terrible! I hope you get to fixed soon!
Yummy! I never thought to add cheddar cheese to lasagna, but it sounds like a great added flavor.
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It is one of my favorite parts about my grandma’s lasagna!
Oh yum! I need to make this for my husband, lasagna is his favorite!
My husband too!
Sausage instead of beef…sounds perfect!
I use both and its the perfect combination!
Love the sprig of fresh basil on top, and the idea of adding shredded carrots or zucchini sounds amazing! I’ve morphed my own recipe over the years – I add an egg instead of milk to the cheese mixture. It all tastes good though right?
My grandma does that too! It makes it fluffier.
This looks absolutely delicious! I’ve been looking for a great lasagna recipe, and I love that this uses oven ready noodles. I always end up tearing mine. Thanks so much for a great recipe, I’m pinning it for easy reference. 🌷
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The oven ready noodles simplify it so much!
This looks great! I made lasagna for the first time a few weeks ago and although it was good, it was messy! I think I added too much ricotta? lol.
If you put in too much ricotta sometimes it will slide! If that was your issue then that might be it.. you also could have made your layers too thick. Hope that helps for next time!
Oh my gosh this look amazing! I would have to take out the meat but I’m sure it would taste just as good! 🙂
Definately! and you could add in veggies like spinach or carrots and zucchini!
I can’t remember the last time I had a slice of lasagna. It looks so tasty!
I don’t eat it very often either but it is one of my favorite comfort foods!
One thing I love to do is swap the ground beef with short ribs, it’s so GOOD! And omg, if that photo doesn’t scream “cheesy!”, girl!
I’m a HUGE cheese fan! but wow short ribs! I have never thought of that! I will have to try it next time!
This lasagna looks amazing! I haven’t found a lasagna recipe that I love yet, but this one looks like a winner!
Yay! I hope you enjoy! Its definitely a winner in our household!
I love the addition of meat in the recipe!
My son and husband are big meat eaters so i try to load up on the meat in every recipe!
Im going to make these for my meat eaters. They love lasanga or anything with cheese!
Oh yes my son and Hubby are total meat guys and they love this one!
That lasagna sounds delicious!! I love that you combined the two recipes together!
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I do that with most of my recipes! take out what I don’t like and replace from another recipe! Thank you!
Holy moly! This looks scrumptious. Lasagna is such a comfort food!
Probably one of my FAVORITE comfort foods!
I’m drooling! I like to use hot sausage in mine too! I need to try your version!
haha Well thank you! I hope you enjoy!
This looks absolutely delicious and I’ve never made lasagna! Might be time for me to try!
Lasagna is actually way easy than you would think! You should definitely try it!
This looks so good. I haven’t made lasagna in forever!
I don’t make it very often either but it is a favorite in our household!
I love the addition of hot sausage!!! I think I’ll be adding this to my menu this week!
I hope you and your family enjoy!
This looks absolutely delicious! I definitely need to make this for dinner this week.
I love lasagna! I am going to have to try this. It sounds great!
Thank you! I hope you enjoy!
This looks so simple and yummy! And the hot sausage? Fantastic idea!
It adds so much to the dish! and even my toddler will eat it so it isn’t too spicy!
Hot sausage is totally what I’m missing when I make my lasagna.. I so have to remember this next time I make mine! Yours looks delish! ♥
It really adds SO MUCH flavor! Thank you very much!