Better-than-Ever Cheesy Meat Lasagna

Better-than-Ever Cheesy Meat Lasagna recipe

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Not to brag or anything, but we've found a way for cheesy layers of noodles, ground beef and spaghetti sauce to fit into your healthy eating plan.

time

prep:

30 min

total:

1 hr 5 min

servings

total:

9 servings

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What You Need

3/4

lb. extra-lean ground beef

cloves garlic, minced

1-1/2

tsp. dried oregano leaves

jar (24 oz.) spaghetti sauce

large tomato, chopped

egg

container (16 oz.) BREAKSTONE'S or KNUDSEN 2% Milkfat Low Fat Cottage Cheese

1/4

cup KRAFT Grated Parmesan Cheese

lasagna noodles, cooked

pkg. (7 oz.) KRAFT 2% Milk Shredded Mozzarella Cheese, divided

Make It

HEAT oven to 375°F.

BROWN meat with garlic and oregano in large saucepan. Stir in spaghetti sauce; simmer 5 min., stirring occasionally. Remove from heat; stir in tomatoes. Mix egg, cottage cheese and Parmesan until well blended.

SPREAD 1/2 cup meat sauce onto bottom of 13x9-inch baking dish sprayed with cooking spray. Top with layers of 3 noodles, half the cottage cheese mixture, 1/2 cup mozzarella and 1 cup sauce. Repeat layers. Top with remaining noodles and sauce; cover.

BAKE 30 min. or until heated through. Top with remaining mozzarella; bake, uncovered, 5 min. or until melted. Let stand 5 min. before serving.

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Kraft Kitchens Tips

Substitute

Substitute 1 container (15 oz.) part-skim ricotta cheese for the cottage cheese.

Makeover - How We Did It

We've made over a traditional lasagna that results in a savings of 140 calories and 10g of fat per serving by using extra-lean ground beef instead of sausage and decreasing the amount, using cottage cheese instead of ricotta cheese, decreasing the Parmesan and using KRAFT 2% Milk Shredded Mozzarella Cheese.

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SarahE.

posted:6/3/2011

I love lasagna, but my stomach has never really gotten along with ricotta cheese. When I saw this used cottage cheese, I was a little weary, but it was the best lasagna I have ever eaten!

a cook

posted:5/19/2011

Perfect!!! The best lasagna I have ever had! My husband really loves it. We make it with half hamburger and half italian sausage.

a cook

posted:4/28/2011

YUM! It was refreshing to find a recipe that included Italian food that was still kind on calories for dieting. It was very easy to make.

TurneshaFish

posted:4/28/2011

So good!!! My husband loved it! i didnt use the tomatoes and I used oven ready noodles and cooked it for about 30 more min it turned out great!

BrittaniSimon

posted:4/27/2011

This was pretty good, but it wasn't the rich, hearty taste I usually expect from a lasagna. The sauce was also a little runny, but it could be the brand I used.

elena4684

posted:3/16/2011

Turn out was excellent!

leelee77

posted:3/1/2011

easy and delicious would make it again and probably add spinach

chappy916

posted:2/28/2011

I added an extra half jar of sauce, cottage cheese and half bag of shredded cheese and I didnt have tomotoes and forgot to add the parmesan cheese but was excellent.. BF said that adding sausage would be great so gonna add some chicken sausage next time.

eshabura

posted:2/24/2011

Yum yum. This recipe is delicious. I doubled the measure of meat in the recipe because both my husband and I love a meaty lasagna. To balance the altered recipe, I added some extra shredded cheese. Definitely worth trying.

tehwarrens

posted:2/11/2011

This lasagna was DELICIOUS. The one change I made was to use a can of diced tomatoes with roasted onions, undrained (since I was using oven-ready lasagna noodles, I wanted the extra liquid), in place of the chopped tomato. I think that swap pushed it over the edge, because it was out of this world good with the added flavor of the roasted onion.