World's Laziest Lasagna

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 9
• 1 lb ground beef
• 1 (32 ounce) can spaghetti sauce or 1 (32 ounce) jar spaghetti sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon diced garlic
• 1 lb fat-free cottage cheese or 1 lb low fat cottage cheese
• 8 ounces low-fat ricotta cheese
• 12 ounces grated mozzarella cheese
• 1 egg
• 1 cup grated parmesan cheese
• 1 cup water
• 8 -10 uncooked lasagna noodles

Recipe

• 1 brown the beef and garlic in a skillet.
• 2 drain.
• 3 add spaghetti sauce; heat on low.
• 4 while meat sauce is heating, mix the cottage cheese, ricotta, mozzarella, egg, and 1/2 cup of the parmesan.
• 5 spread 1 1/2 cups of the meat sauce in the bottom of a 9x13 pan.
• 6 put a layer of noodles over the sauce, so that none overlap.
• 7 if you have to break a noodle to fill in gaps over 1/2 inch, that's okay.
• 8 put a layer of cheese mix over the noodles.
• 9 add about 1/2 of the remaining meat sauce; spread over cheese.
• 10 repeat layers.
• 11 end with cheese on top; put remaining parmesan on top of the other chesse.
• 12 pour 1 cup of water around inside edges of the pan, and cover with foil.
• 13 **bake in a 350 oven for 1 hour, then uncover and bake 15 minutes more.
• 14 take from oven and let cool about 10 minutes before serving.
• 15 can be refrigerated up to 48 hours at this point.