Serve with tomato sauce and fresh basil bouquet.
Ideal when inviting family and friends at your table to share a delicious meal.
Lasagna with Italian Sausages, ricotta and spinach
Filed under: Comfort food, Dinner, Entertaining
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If there's one dish that brings people together better than any other it's lasagna. Post an invitation on Facebook and make an enormous lasagna with Italian sausages… and rent some very long tables!
ingredients
- 5 Olymel Italian Spicy sausages 450 g (or your favorite flavour)
- 750 ml of marinara sauce
- 250 ml of tomato juice
- 475 g of ricotta cheese
- 1 box of lasagna pasta already cooked or "Direct to oven" lasagna
- 125 g of spinach
- 150 g of mozzarella cheese gratted
- 75 g of parmesan cheese
- 2 egg whites
- ¼ tablespoon of crushed chili pepper
- ¼ tablespoon of dried origano
- Nutmeg freshly ground
- 10 g of fresh basil chopped
- Ground pepper to taste
instructions
- Boil sausages during 10 minutes, let cool, cut in wedges and put aside.
- Blanch spinach in boiling water, let cool, drain well and chop. In a bowl, combine spinach, ricotta, egg whites, chili, basil, origano, nutmeg, pepper, 50 g of mozzarella and 35 g of parmesan. Mix well and put aside.
- In a gratin dish, alternate layers of sauce and pasta, spread the layer of cheese in the center and the sausages at the end. End with the balance of mozzarella and parmesan. Add 250 ml of tomato juice (for "Direct-to-Oven" lasagna), bake in oven at 350˚F (177˚C) during 45 minutes and let rest for 10 minutes before serving.
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