Best Spaghetti à La Lasagne Recipes

LEFT OVER SPAGHETTI LASAGNA

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
• Fill a large pot with lightly salted water and bring to a rolling boil. Stir in spaghetti and return to a boil. Cook until pasta is tender but still slightly firm, about 10 minutes. Drain well.
• Transfer spaghetti to a large bowl and toss with spaghetti sauce until well combined.
• Mix cottage cheese and sour cream in a bowl.
• Spread half the spaghetti with sauce into the prepared baking dish.
• Spread the cottage cheese mixture evenly over the spaghetti.
• Place the remaining spaghetti and sauce in an even layer over the cottage cheese mixture; sprinkle with mozzarella cheese.
• Bake in the preheated oven until bubbly and the cheese is browned, 30 to 40 minutes.

SPAGHETTI LASAGNA

Steps:

• In a large pot of salted boiling water, add spaghetti and cook until al dente, about 8 minutes. Drain water then return the spaghetti to the pot. Add 1 egg and the Parmesan and toss to combine.
• Meanwhile, make sauce. In a large pot over medium, heat olive oil. Add onion and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Stir in garlic and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add the ground beef, breaking up the meat with a wooden spoon, and cook until the meat is no longer pink, about 6 minutes. Drain fat then return the pot to medium heat and stir in tomato paste. Cook for 1 minute, then add the crushed tomatoes and oregano. Season with salt and pepper and simmer for 10 minutes. Preheat oven to 350°.
• In a medium bowl, combine ricotta and remaining egg. Stir to combine.
• In a large baking dish, spoon a thin layer of sauce in the bottom of the dish. Top with half of the spaghetti noodles, cover with about half of the remaining sauce, half of the ricotta mixture and half of the mozzarella. Repeat once more. Bake until the cheese is melty and the lasagna is warmed through, about 20-30 minutes. Garnish with parsely.

SPAGHETTI à LA LASAGNE

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil for the pasta. Heat the tomato sauce in a small saucepan. (Or do this at the last minute in a microwave for 1 minute.)
• Add the pasta to the boiling water and cook until it is tender but still firm to the bite, 8 to 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, combine the olive oil, ricotta, and Parmesan in a small mixing bowl and season to taste with salt and pepper.
• When the pasta is done, drain it and return it to the pot, off the heat. Add the spaghetti sauce and toss well.
• Ladle the pasta and sauce into deep bowls, and top each portion with a dollop of the ricotta mixture.

LASAGNA ALLA BESCIAMELLA

Steps:

• To make the meat ragu: Heat the oil in a Dutch oven over medium-low heat. Add the onion and garlic and saute until soft and fragrant, about 8 minutes. Add the ground beef, sausage, salt, basil, Italian seasoning, oregano and pepper to taste and increase the heat to high. Cook, breaking up the meat with a wooden spoon, until browned all over. Add the tomatoes. Pour some of the wine into the empty tomato boxes to rinse out the last bits of tomatoes and add to the pot, along with the remaining wine. Bring the mixture to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer, partially covered, until the sauce thickens and the flavors come together, about 1 hour. Add a healthy amount of black pepper.
• To make the besciamella: Heat the milk in a small saucepan over medium heat until just simmering, then turn off the heat. Meanwhile, melt the butter in a medium heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the flour to the butter and cook, whisking constantly, until the mixture thickens and then loosens again, about 2 minutes. Add the hot milk, whisking constantly. Bring to a boil. Add the nutmeg and salt and pepper to taste. Reduce the heat to low and continue to cook, whisking almost constantly, for 2 minutes. Remove from the heat and use immediately.
• To make the lasagna: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Spread an even layer of the meat ragu over the bottom of a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. Arrange 3 lasagna noodles over the sauce lengthwise across the short side of the pan. Avoid overlapping or allowing them to touch the sides of the pan because they will expand as they cook. Press down slightly to let the sauce spread around them. Cover with one-quarter of the besciamella and sprinkle with one-third of the Parmigiano-Reggiano. Add another layer of ragu. Add 3 more noodles, arranging them in the opposite direction from the first layer and breaking 1 of the noodles in half if necessary to fit. Add one-quarter of the besciamella and half of the mozzarella. Make a third layer of ragu, noodles (alternating directions again), besciamella and one-third of the Parmigiano-Reggiano. Add another layer of ragu, then the remaining mozzarella, noodles (alternating the noodles again), besciamella and ragu.
• Cover the pan with foil and bake until heated through, about 35 minutes. Remove the foil and continue baking until the top is brown and bubbling, about 20 minutes more. During the last 10 minutes of baking, scatter the remaining Parmigiano-Reggiano all over. Let the lasagna stand for 10 minutes before serving.