Lazy Slow Cooker Lasagna

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 pound ground beef or Italian sausage
• 15 oz ricotta
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon basil
• ¼ teaspoon pepper
• ¼ cup grated parmesan

  plus more for topping
• 24 oz marinara sauce
• 14.5 oz diced tomatoes

  with liquid
• 10 oz lasagna noodles

  no boil
• 8 oz shredded mozzarella cheese

Instructions

• 1 Spray entire slow cooker insert with non-stick spray.
• 2 Add ground beef to a large saute pan, and cook over medium-high heat until
  browned and cooked through. Add tomato sauce and diced tomatoes. Stir together.
  This will make your sauce.
• 3 In large bowl, mix Ricotta with egg, ¼ cup parmesan cheese, basil, salt, and
  pepper.
• 4 Cover bottom of slow cooker with sauce.
• 5 Layer pasta on top of sauce. Layer about 4 lasagna noodles — breaking them into
  smaller pieces as needed to fit — evenly over the sauce to cover the bottom of
  the slow cooker.
• 6 Take 5 scoops of the ricotta mixture and drop onto noodles and spread evenly
  over noodles.
• 7 Top with a layer of mozzarella cheese.
• 8 Repeat these steps two more times. Sauce, noodles, ricotta, mozzarella.
• 9 Cook on high for 2 ½ hours. (see note for boil or traditional noodles)
• 10 Serve with grated parmesan cheese on top.

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