Simple, Cheesy Lasagna

Simple, Cheesy Lasagna

Ingredients for Pasta Meat Sauce (Sugoo)

• 1 tbsp cooking oil
• 4 minced garlic cloves

• 1/4 chopped onion

• minced meat

• 2 tbsp of canned puréed tomatoes

• 12 to 15 tomatoes

• salt to taste (we used 1 tbsp)

Ingredients for Pasta:

• 1 box of lasagna noodles

• water (to boil)

• a little bit of oil

• 1 tbsp salt

Instuctions for Pasta Meat Sauce (Sugo)

• In a blender add in, 12-15 cut tomatoes, 3-4 garlic cloves, ½ cup of water, and blend until it’ s a liquid consistency.

• In a large pot, heat up 1 tbsp olive oil in MED-HIGH. Then add in ¼ of a chopped onion into the heated oil and 4 minced garlic cloves, cook until it is translucent.

• Once, the onion is translucent, reduce the heat to MED-LOW, and add in the minced meat. Mix around and cook until all sides are browned. Browning the minced meat should take about 5-10 minutes or so.

• Once the meat is browned and ready on all sides, add in 2-3 tbsps of pureed tomato to the minced meat and mix around.

• Then, add in both the blended tomato mixture into the pot and increase the heat to HIGH. It should be coming to a boil. Add salt to taste (we added 1 tbsp). Then reduce heat to MEDIUM for about 40-ish minutes. 

• Near the end of the cooking, add in clean bell peppers into the pot for the last few minutes of cooking.

Instructions for Lasagna

• Fill a pot half way (or ⅔ of the way) up with tap water and turn heat to HIGH
• Add a tsp. of olive oil (to prevent pasta from sticking to each other), and add in salt to taste and bring the salt water to a boil
• Once the salt water comes to a boil, add in the lasagna noodles and stir it around
• Cook lasagna noodles to your preference (we cooked it for about 20-ish minutes until it became al-dente)
• Once pasta is done cooking, drain the water in a strainer

• Grab a pan, layer some meat sauce on the bottom of the pan. Then add 3 pieces of lasagna noodles, add meat sauce on top of lasagna noodles, then add cheese on top of that. Repeat process, until you are all done and cheese is the last layer.
• Cover top of pan with aluminum foil.
• Place lasagna pan in a 350 degrees oven for 25 minutes.
• Remove aluminum foil, allow to cool for a few minutes, then enjoy!

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