Crockpot Lasagna!

[Tsiyu]

Ok, maybe some of you have already done this but here's my take:

All of my pans are scattered at various households on the mountain, so I had no pan in which to cook my lasagna, and the icy-bad roads made it impossible to collect even one.

So I wondered about doing it in the crockpot. Well, it worked great!

I usually make my own sauce but used:

* prepared sauce (2 1/2 jars- I like mine saucy and I needed extra liquid as i do not cook noodles first)

*to which I added some diced all natural chicken Italian sausage with red and green peppers (two links - this stuff was great and wish i didn't toss the package so I could tell you the brand);

*cheese mixture (composed of a pint of ricotta mixed with parsley, minced garlic, mozzarella, two eggs and parmesan)

*and uncooked noodles.


Into crockpot:

First, some sauce, then noodles broken up to fit a layer's worth (you can overlap), then cheese mix, more sauce, noodles, cheese mix and so on. I think i got four layers total. Topped final noodles with sauce only, leaving 1 inch space at top.

Set on low at night and woke up to nice lasagna all ready except for the cheese on top.

I sliced off a hunk, added some moz., nuked it (you may want to use a toaster oven if you like the moz more golden) and it was delish!


Very tender, held together well.

Who knew!
:D

[Denninmi]

1. Did you have any problems with burning around the edges?

My crockpot tends to burn thicker foods around the edge, even on the low setting.

Sounds like a great idea, though, may have to try it.

[Tsiyu]

3. Just a tad, yes

I did notice the edges are darker, so I may not cook it quite as long as I did this batch (8 hrs on low)

But it did not affect the taste one bit.

Let me know if you do try it, how yours turned out.

[NMDemDist2]

2. very cool!!

wish i had some cheese around.....

[Tsiyu]

4. Yeah hard to make lasagna without cheese

And I shouldn't eat so much cheese,but I love it. AND it's been so cold around here. I tell myself I need all that fat to stay warm, darn it!

[yellerpup]

5. Big points for ingenuity, Tsiyu.

Don't have a crockpot and can't eat cheese, but do admire a good recipe! :hi: