Felix's Lasagna

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 9 whole wheat lasagna noodles
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons olive oil
• 1 (26 ounce) jar spaghetti sauce (i used garlic, mushroom and roma tomato)
• 1 lb italian sausage
• 1 lb ground beef
• 1 (16 ounce) container small curd cottage cheese (drain slightly)
• 6 ounces shredded parmesan cheese (or romano if you'd rather)
• 1 lb shredded mozzarella cheese
• 1 (4 ounce) can sliced mushrooms, drained well

Recipe

• 1 combine, brown and crumble sausage and ground beef.
• 2 add the salt and olive oil to a large pot of water and bring to a boil; add lasagna noodles and cook, stirring occasionally, 10 minutes.
• 3 after meat mixture is browned, drain; add spaghetti sauce, mix well, and simmer until noodles are done, stirring occasionally.
• 4 when noodles are done, gently remove them to a colander and rinse with cool water (be careful, they can tear easily).
• 5 combine the cottage cheese and parmesan cheese in a bowl and set aside.
• 6 preheat oven to 350f; put a sheet of aluminum foil on bottom oven rack to catch drips from pan.
• 7 spray a 9x13-inch glass baking dish with cooking spray.
• 8 lay three noodles flat in bottom of dish, then spread 8 oz. of shredded mozzarella and 1/3 of meat mixture.
• 9 layer another three noodles, then the mushrooms. carefully spread cottage cheese mixture over that, then another 1/3 of the meat mixture.
• 10 layer another three noodles, and pour remaining meat mixture over the top, covering it entirely.
• 11 bake for 35 minutes; spread remaining mozzarella over top and bake another 10 minutes.
• 12 let stand 10-15 minutes before serving.