Easy Poor mans Lasagna. Easy, cheap lasagna recipe the whole family will love! Poor Man's Lasagna is my husband's favorite dinner! Actually, the whole family likes it a lot, so this poor man's meal makes a fairly regular appearance on the dinner table and as a freezer meal.
Combine the cooked rotini, ground beef and a jar of spaghetti sauce into a. Great recipe for Easy Poor mans Lasagna. I make so many different kinds of lasagna, this one is so easy and kid friendly, and it's my cheapest ingredients lasagna. (sometime over the summer I will be going a smoked lasagna in the smoker.) Lazy Crock Pot Lasagna is a family favorite and so quick and easy to make! You can cook Easy Poor mans Lasagna using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Easy Poor mans Lasagna
- You need of Oven ready lasagna noodles.
- You need 1 jar of your favorite marinara sauce or spaghetti sauce, may need two if it’s small jars.
- You need 1 lbs of browned and drain hamburger meat.
- You need 1 can of mushrooms optional.
- It's of Optional peppers or onions.
- It's 1 bag of mozzarella cheese.
- You need of Seasoning.
- You need of Salt.
- It's of Paper.
- It's of Garlic powder.
- You need of Onion seasoning.
- You need of Italian seasoning.
A delicious meat sauce layered with cheese and spinach filled ravioli and loads of gooey cheese and cooks up perfectly in the slow cooker. I personally think of it as a poor man's dish, because after I have spent so much time and effort making a nice lasagna to give as a gift, I still have to feed my family that night. I usually throw together whatever ingredients I have leftover to make my poor family's meal. If you do that, you can easily put this meal together quickly.
Easy Poor mans Lasagna step by step
- Brown and drain hamburger meat.
- In a bowl mix together hamburger meat, all seasoning, and sauce.
- In a 13x9 baking dish add a small light layer of meat mixture, so it don’t stick.
- Next add the lasagna, then a light layer of meat mixture and a light layer of cheese.... do 3 layers all together, with the last layer with the most meat sauce and the most cheese.(layer it evenly).
- Last layer., the last layer has the most because that’s what people are going to see..
- Wrap with foil.can place in refrigerator till ready to cook. Follow directions on back of lasagna box for cooking..
- I sever mine with a salad and garlic bread or garlic cheesy bread, see my other recipes for garlic cheesy bread and pull apart garlic cheesy bread..
- Notes- can make this in a crockpot as well just spray with non-cooking spray I cook mine on high for a few hrs. If adding papers and onions sauté them with the hamburger meat. Can also use ricotta cheese, no one in my family likes it so I just don’t use it... could use cottage cheese instead. Uncover the last five mins to brown the cheese some..
Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Brown beef; add garlic, salt, sugar, pepper and tomato sauce. In a large skillet, cook beef and onion over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain. Grandma's lasagna (my mom's) is a delicious traditional one, but with all the meat, cheese, and other ingredients, the cost can add up. Nana's (my mother-in-law's) recipe is equally delicious and gets just as many requests from my hungry crew, and with a name like Poor Man's Lasagna , you know it'll fit into a shoestring budget.