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Alma's Easy Lasagna Recipe

It is finally getting to the point where putting on your oven might make your house too hot. But what about making lasagna? No worries! You can make this easy skillet lasagna on your stove top that will require no baking. It is delicious!!!

Serves 4 to 6

1 (28-ounce) can diced tomatoes or 3 1/2 cups pasta sauce from a jar (a healthy brand!)

Water

1 tablespoon olive oil

3 medium cloves garlic , minced or pressed through a garlic press (about 1 tablespoon)

1 pound ground turkey

10 curly-edged lasagna noodles, broken into 2-inch lengths

1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese plus 2 additional tablespoons

1/2 cup grated mozzarella cheese

Ground black pepper

red pepper flakes to tate

2 cups ricotta cheese

3 tablespoons chopped fresh basil (optional)

1. Pour tomatoes or pasta sauce with their juices into 1-quart liquid measuring cup. Add water until mixture measures 1 quart.

2. Heat oil in large nonstick skillet over medium heat until shimmering. Stir in garlic and pepper flakes and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add ground meat and cook, breaking apart meat, until no longer pink, about 4 minutes.

3. Scatter pasta over meat but do not stir. Pour diced tomatoes with juices or pasta sauce over pasta noodles. Cover and bring to simmer. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, stirring occasionally, until pasta is tender, about 20 minutes.

4. Remove skillet from heat and stir in 1/2 cup Parmesan and mozzarella. Season with salt and pepper. Dot with heaping tablespoons ricotta, cover, and let stand off heat for 5 minutes. Sprinkle with basil and remaining 2 tablespoons Parmesan.

Alma Schneider, LCSW, is founder of Take Back the Kitchen. Like TBK, this blog is dedicated to helping people recognize and overcome the common and unique obstacles to being everything they hope to be in the kitchen. She writes for Womens Day on line magazine, she is a featured Kitchen Coach Expert on realsavvymoms.com and healthy food sponsor for BabyLovesdisco.com.

Posted in: Take Back the Kitchen on 05/24/2011