Quick & Easy One-Step Spinach Lasagna

Save time with no-boil lasagna noodles, bottled tomato sauce, and frozen spinach -- all processed "fast" foods that are good for you because they still supply plenty of essential vitamins and cancer-defeating phytochemicals.

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Quick & Easy One-Step Spinach Lasagna
Quick & Easy One-Step Spinach Lasagna
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Prep: 20 min
Cook: 45 min

You Will Need
3 cups part-skim ricotta cheese
1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1 large egg
4 cups bottled chunky tomato pasta sauce
12 oven-ready, no-boil lasagna noodles (from 8-ounce package)
2 boxes (10 ounces each) frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
1 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese

What to Do
1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking dish with nonstick cooking spray.

2. In medium bowl, stir together ricotta, Parmesan, and egg.

3. Spread 1 cup pasta sauce over bottom of baking dish. Arrange 3 lasagna noodles side by side in dish. Spread 1 1/4 cups ricotta mixture over top of noodles. Top with a third of the spinach. Repeat layering two more times with sauce, noodles, ricotta mixture, and spinach. Top with remaining 3 noodles. Spread remaining 1 cup sauce over top. Gently press lasagna noodles down into dish, so sauce comes up around sides. Cover dish with foil.

4. Bake 35 minutes. Uncover. Sprinkle with mozzarella. Bake until cheese is melted and filling is bubbly, about 10 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes before cutting into rectangles.

Nutrition Information
Per serving: 456 calories, 26 g protein, 50 g carbohydrates, 17 g fat, 9g saturated fat, 72 mg cholesterol, 6 g fiber, 1,009 mg sodium

Fresh Ideas
You can make one-step lasagna with other favorite ingredients too. Just follow the recipe above with a few changes:
  • Use 1/2 pound sliced pepperoni sausage and 1/2 pound sliced mushrooms for the spinach layers

  • Use frozen chopped broccoli and some diced ham for the spinach layer and substitute shredded Jarlsberg for the mozzarella

    Helpful Hint
    For convenience, Quick & Easy One-Step Spinach Lasagna uses no-boil lasagna noodles that are pre-cooked and then dehydrated at the pasta factory. Recipes that call for pre-cooked noodles are specially developed to include enough liquid to surround and rehydrate the noodles, either by calling for more tomato sauce or for water in addition to the sauce.

    The convenience of no-boil lasagna noodles is twofold: You get to skip the separate step of cooking pasta, and the rigidity of the noodles makes it easier to assemble the layers. Also, there are no "puddles" at the bottom of the lasagna dish when you use pre-cooked noodles, because the noodles soak up the added liquid.
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Why can't you show the recipe at the same time you show the picture of the item?

By Pat, on 10/10/2009

Doesn't say how many it serves???

By Darlene Nix, on 09/08/2009

i think this recipe should have strips of zuchinni replacing the pasta and the cheese should fat free, also one layer of shredded carrots in addition to spinach (more colorful and healthy

By sylvia pappas, on 09/08/2009

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