Lasagna With Meat Sauce - Make Jar Sauce Taste Homemade by Rockin Robin

Try my lasagna using jar sauce with fresh herbs, Italian sausage, onion and more to make this taste like homemade.
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Ingredients:
1 large yellow onion, finely diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 whole celery, leaves only from the center of celery, finely chopped
1 1/2 lbs. Mozzarella cheese, grated
1/4 cup red wine
2 lbs. ground beef
1 lb. Italian sausage
1/2 cup fresh parsley, chopped
1 cup fresh basil, chiffonade and then chopped smaller
2 Tbsp. fresh thyme, chopped
1/2 cup parmesan cheese, grated
salt
Spaghetti sauce in jars, about 91 oz.
ricotta cheese
lasagna noodles, cooked according to package directions

Directions:
Heat a frying pan over medium high heat, then add 1 Tbsp. of olive oil and saute the onion for a good 15 minutes or longer if you have the time.

Caramelizing the onion will bring out some delicious flavor in your sauce. Add the garlic at the end and cook an additional 2 minutes, until it's fragrant.

While the onion is cooking, place the spaghetti sauce in a large stock pot and put the heat on low.

Chop up the basil by stacking the leaves on top of each other and slicing thinly (chiffonade). This creates long ribbons of basil so I like to cut it again in the other direction to cut the herb into small pieces.

Add the chopped basil, thyme, and parsley to the spaghetti sauce. Add the wine and simmer.

Once the onion/garlic mixture is done, add it to the spaghetti sauce.

Using the same pan as the onions, cook the beef and sausage until no longer pink. Break the meat up as it cooks and then drain the grease out.

Add about a tsp. of salt to the meat and then add it to the spaghetti sauce and let this simmer for at least 30 minutes and up to 2 hours if you have time.

Now we are ready to put the lasagna together.

Preheat oven 375 degrees F.

Brush a 9 x 13 baking dish with olive oil. Place a couple of ladles full of spaghetti sauce in the bottom of the dish and spread it to cover the bottom of dish.

Next comes a layer of noodles, then ricotta, mozzarella and parmesan cheese. Then repeat the layers ending with the cheese.

Cover the lasagna with foil and place the dish on a cookie sheet to catch any drips. Bake for 30 minutes. Then remove the foil and bake an additional 10 minutes.

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