Gluten Free Meat Lasagna (or Regular Meat Lasagna)
 
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Miss the convenience or flavor of your favorite restaurant or frozen lasagna? Try this Gluten Free Meat Lasagna, you might find what you've been missing!
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Recipe type: Entree
Cuisine: Italian
Serves: 12
Ingredients
  • 1 (28 ounce) can Red Gold® Crushed Tomatoes
  • 2 (14.5 ounce) cans Red Gold® Diced Tomatoes With Basil, Garlic & Oregano
  • 6 to 10 oz. Fresh Spinach (optional)
  • 1 teaspoon (each) dry oregano, basil, and parsley
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 (9 ounce) box Gluten Free (Heartland) lasagna noodles, Oven Ready, uncooked
  • 1 (12 oz) package of Cream Cheese Spread
  • 2 Tbs milk
  • 1 tsp to 3 tsp Garlic Powder
  • Gluten Free Meat Lasagna Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350º F.
  2. In a large pot, combine water, RED GOLD® Crushed Tomatoes, RED GOLD® Diced Tomatoes with Basil, GARLIC & OREGANO, dry oregano, basil, parsley, garlic powder, and salt to taste.
  3. Chop spinach into tiny, chopped shreds.
  4. Creamy Spinach Lasagna
  5. Add about ½ of the spinach to the tomatoes and mix well.
  6. Creamy Spinach Lasagna
  7. While tomatoes and spinach are heating, prep and cook the sausage and beef.
  8. If the Italian Sausages are in casings, use a sharp knife to slit the casing and remove the ground sausage. Discard casings. Skin Italian Sausage
  9. Brown Italian Sausage and ground beef. My beef was already cooked. Cook Italian Sausage
  10. Like that smooth, super fine meat texture found in many frozen and restaurant meats? Run the meats through the food processor. It will give a fine texture as well as blend the two meats together. Meat in Food Processor
  11. Add meat to the pot of tomatoes and heat at least 30 minutes. Meat Sauce
  12. In a separate bowl, mix the cream cheese spread, milk, and garlic powder (to taste). Add the other ½ of the spinach and blend well. Creamy Spinach Lasagna
  13. Spray a 9x13x2 inch baking pan with nonstick cooking spray.
  14. Cover the bottom of the pan with 1½ cups of meat sauce. Creamy Spinach Lasagna
  15. Arrange ⅓ of noodles on top of sauce, slightly overlapped or breaking noodles, if needed. Creamy Spinach & Tomato Lasagna
  16. Top noodles with ½ of cream cheese mixture. Creamy Spinach & Tomato Lasagna
  17. Top cream cheese layer with 1 cup of Italian cheese. Creamy Spinach Lasagna
  18. Top the cheese layer with another 1 cup of tomato sauce.
  19. Repeat layers and top with last ⅓ of noodles and the remaining sauce. Sprinkle with remaining Italian cheese. Creamy Spinach Lasagna
  20. Spray foil with nonstick cooking spray. Cover lasagna with the foil and bake for 1 to 1½ hours; until noodles are cooked.
  21. Let stand for 10 minutes before serving.
Recipe by DealsFromMsDo.com at https://dealsfrommsdo.com/gluten-free-meat-lasagna-regular-meat-lasagna/