The Best Classic Lasagna Recipe – Homemade lasagna full of pasta, ricotta, a bootleg meat sauce, and tons of cheese.  This is the world'due south best lasagna recipe!

The best classic lasagna, sliced on a blue plate with cheese on top

I've been working on this meat lasagna recipe for over a yr.

I gear up out to brand the all-time traditional lasagna recipe.  Every time I made information technology, I'd make fiddling tweaks here and there until I thought it was just right.

I call back I finally nailed it!

How to make lasagna:

  • Brand the meat sauce
  • Make a ricotta cheese mixture
  • Boil the pasta
  • Assemble the lasagna
  • Broil
  • Cool
  • Enjoy

Best homemade lasagna sliced on a plate

How to layer lasagna:

  • Spread a sparse layer of pasta sauce in the bottom of a baking dish
  • Make a layer of cooked lasagna noodles
  • Spread an even layer of the ricotta cheese mixture
  • Spread an even layer of meat sauce
  • Repeat those layers two times
  • Meridian it with a terminal layer of noodles, sauce, mozzarella, and parmesan cheese

How to bake lasagna:

  • Cover the baking dish with aluminum foil
  • Bake at 350 degrees F for 45 minutes
  • Remove the foil and broil for 15 more minutes
  • Allow the lasagna remainder for at least fifteen minutes before slicing

Casserole dish of the best lasagna recipe

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Watch the step by step video for The All-time Classic Lasagna recipe beneath.

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Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour 30 minutes

Full Time i hour 50 minutes

  • 1 lb. footing beef
  • i/2 lb. sweet Italian sausage
  • 1 medium onion -chopped
  • 2 garlic cloves -minced
  • i (15 oz.) tin tomato sauce
  • ane (xv oz.) can crushed tomatoes
  • 2 (6 oz.) cans tomato plant paste
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 3 teaspoons common salt -divided
  • 3 teaspoons Italian seasoning -divided
  • i 1/2 teaspoons dried basil leaves -divided
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground blackness pepper
  • 1/4 cup minced fresh flat-leaf parsley -divided
  • 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese -divided
  • xv oz. (i ¾ cups) whole milk Ricotta cheese
  • i/2 loving cup grated parmesan cheese -divided
  • 1 large egg
  • 12 lasagna noodles

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

  • Make the meat sauce. Add together beefiness and sausage to a large skillet over medium-high rut, breaking it autonomously with a wooden spoon. Add the onion and garlic. Melt until meat is browned, nearly 6-8 minutes. Drain the fatty from the meat. Return the meat to the skillet.

  • Add the tomato sauce, crushed tomatoes, lycopersicon esculentum paste, h2o, saccharide, two teaspoons salt, 2 teaspoons Italian seasoning, 1 teaspoon basil, and the black pepper. Stir until well combined. Encompass and reduce the rut to depression. Simmer the sauce for 30 minutes. Stir in 2 tablespoons of the minced parsley.

  • As the sauce cooks, make the ricotta mixture. In a large bowl, add one cup mozzarella, the ricotta, ¼ cup parmesan, two tablespoons of the parsley, the egg, 1 teaspoon salt, i teaspoon Italian seasoning, and ½ teaspoon basil. Stir until well incorporated.

  • Cook the pasta al dente, according to information technology's packet directions.

  • Get together the lasagna. In a 13x9 inch baking dish, add a very thin layer of meat sauce (about ¼ loving cup). Layer 3 lasagna noodles, ⅓ of the ricotta mixture, and 1 ½ (level) cups of meat sauce. Repeat the layers twice.

  • Add a final layer of the remaining noodles, meat sauce, one cup mozzarella, and ¼ loving cup parmesan.

  • Embrace with foil that has been sprayed with nonstick cooking spray. Bake for 45 minutes. Remove the foil. Broil 15 more minutes.

  • Let the lasagna absurd for 15-20 minutes before cutting.

Serving: 1 /12th of the recipe | Calories: 463 kcal | Carbohydrates: 36 g | Protein: 25 g | Fat: 24 chiliad | Saturated Fat: 11 grand | Cholesterol: 91 mg | Sodium: 1420 mg | Potassium: 812 mg | Fiber: three 1000 | Sugar: 10 m | Vitamin A: 1115 IU | Vitamin C: fourteen.9 mg | Calcium: 274 mg | Iron: iii.7 mg

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About Amanda Finks

I'thousand a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist living in Zionsville, IN. I'm an gorging melt, travel nerd, & lover of adept food! I'm trained in Food Science & recipe development. Information technology's my mission to bring you the BEST recipes your whole family unit will love!

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