I've made this recipe a bunch of times since I've been in Ireland, including tonight!
Spinach Lasagna
How I made it:
Brown some
ground beef ("mince" in Ireland) in a pan with a bit of oil. Before it's done, add a bit of
chopped onion and let it cook with the beef.
In a small mixing bowl, mix
one container cottage cheese with some
herbs. I like to use
basil because it's my favorite,
parsley because I figure parsley goes with anything,
oregano (only a little here), and throw in some
mixed herb/Italian herb blend because why not.
In a larger mixing bowl, mix the ground beef and onions with
canned or frozen spinach and
a jar of tomato spaghetti-type sauce (you may not need the whole jar, just mix it so the ratio looks good). I used frozen spinach this time and it was frozen into little balls, so I microwaved about five of the balls in a bowl so that I could stir the leaves apart. Mix some
herbs in here, too (I like adding herbs to things). I usually add a lot more oregano to the sauce than the cottage cheese. Oregano is good with tomato!
Spread a bit of the tomato sauce around the bottom of your
baking dish. You'll probably want to do this before you mix the sauce with the meat and spinach/use what's left over in the jar. Then place in enough
oven-cook lasagna noodles to cover the bottom of the dish. Spread some of the cottage cheese mixture to cover on top of the noodles. Then spread some of the sauce/meat mixture on top of that to cover. Add another layer of noodles and repeat until you run out of space or layers, whichever comes first. Space usually comes first for me, and I get two layers of each. Then sprinkle
shredded mozzarella cheese all over the top of it.
Put the baking dish in an oven and cook according to whatever recipe is on the back of your lasagna noodles box. Mine was 180 Celsius/350 Fahrenheit for 30-35 minutes, but it may be different for different brands. The cheese gets all GBD.
...Yeah, I don't like measuring things right now. Not a very precise recipe.
