How Do You Make An Easy, Basic Lasagna?
Lasagna is an excellent dish for sharing with others. It makes a good impression, yet is also very easy to make, even for beginning cooks. This recipe makes use of jarred sauce for simplicity, but homemade tomato sauce will work just as well (probably better). Exact measurements of the vegetables are unnecessary – just put in as little or as much as you like. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Start the lasagna noodles boiling. They do not need to be fully cooked – just enough to be floppy – so 5 minutes should be plenty of time. While the noodles are boiling, crumble and brown the ground meat in a large saucepan. Add the onions, green peppers, and mushrooms. Cook until those are softened, then add the garlic. Stir everything together. By now the lasagna noodles should be soft enough to stop boiling. Turn the heat off but leave them in the water until it’s time to assemble everything. Otherwise they’ll stick to each other. Add spaghetti sauce to the meat mixture. You want a generous amou
